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These are Solomon’s foundations[a] for building God’s temple: the length[b] was twenty-seven metres,[c] and the width nine metres.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:3 Tg reads The measurements which Solomon decreed
  2. 3:3 Lit length – cubits in the former measure
  3. 3:3 Lit 60 cubits
  4. 3:3 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4, 8, 11, 13

Inside the Temple

41 Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs;(A) on each side the width of the jamb was 3.2 metres.[a][b]

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Footnotes

  1. 41:1 LXX; MT reads jambs; they were 3.2 metres wide on each side – the width of the tabernacle
  2. 41:1 Lit six cubits, also in vv. 3,5