translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).


text: Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).


label: NET textual note

text: The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography. tn Or “sidewalls.”


text: Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).


text: Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).


text: Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).


text: Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).


text: Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).


text: Heb “house” throughout .


text: Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).


text: The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun . See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.


text: The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.


text: Heb “reed.”


text: Heb “seventy cubits” (36.75 meters).


text: Heb “ninety cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).


text: Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).


text: Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”


text: The LXX does not have the word “by measurements.” The word may be a technical term referring to carpentry technique, the exact meaning of which is unclear.


text: Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).


text: So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”


text: Heb “turning” leaves.


text: Or “railings.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:218.