translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “a contribution.”


text: Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.” tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).


text: Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”


text: Heb “five hundred cubits” (i.e., 262.5 meters); the phrase occurs twice in this verse.


text: Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).


text: Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).


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


text: The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”


text: The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.


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


text: Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.


text: Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.


text: Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”


text: Heb “will be.”


text: Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.


text: Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.