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 10½ feet.[a][b] The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,[c] and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet[d] wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet,[e] and the width, 35 feet.[f](B) He went inside the next room and measured the jambs at the entrance;(C) they were 3½ feet[g] wide. The entrance was 10½ feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side[h] was 12¼ feet.[i]

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Footnotes

  1. 41:1 LXX; MT reads jambs; they were 10½ feet wide on each side—the width of the tabernacle
  2. 41:1 Lit six cubits, also in vv. 3,5
  3. 41:2 Lit 10 cubits
  4. 41:2 Lit five cubits, also in vv. 9,11,12
  5. 41:2 Lit 40 cubits
  6. 41:2 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4,10
  7. 41:3 Lit two cubits, also in v. 22
  8. 41:3 LXX; MT reads width of the entrance
  9. 41:3 Lit seven cubits

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