He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
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He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
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And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
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And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 40:11 And he measured the breadth of the…
Eze 40:11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
Ver. 11. And the length.] That is, the height of the gate.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The breadth of the entry: it is meant of…
The breadth of the entry: it is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, which was so wide, and to which they ascended by stairs of a semi-circular form.
The length; the height is meant, but it is called its length, either because height is an erected length, or rather because thirteen cubits is the greater dimension; and this interpreters agree in, it is the height of the gate here measured.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he measured the breadth of the entry of…
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits,.... Five yards, two feet and a half: this was the measure of the eastern gate, whether outward or inward; for they were both of a measure, as appears from the thresholds being alike:
and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; that is, the height of it; it was seven yards and three inches high; a prodigious gate this! a fit emblem of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the open door, the gate of life, through which whoever enters shall be saved; and there is room for multitudes to enter.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Of the entry - It is meant of the…
Of the entry - It is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, to which they ascended by stairs of a semicircular form.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Thirteen, or twenty-six feet high.
Thirteen, or twenty-six feet high.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. The meaning of the verse is doubtful. The…
11. The meaning of the verse is doubtful. The length of the covered gateway was fifty, not thirteen, cubits. (See Eze_40:15.) This may refer to a covered portion of the gateway; but as we do not have the advantage of consulting the prophet’s drawings of the building as probably his companions did — for Ezekiel was a draughtsman (Eze_4:1) — we cannot be certain. The fact that we have only the ground plan, without elevations, makes the restoration more difficult for us.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. breadth of the entry] The “breadth”—the measure from…
11. breadth of the entry] The “breadth”—the measure from N. to S.—of the outside entrance was 10 cubits, Fig. 1, ee, ff; and this was the breadth of the passage all along, except perhaps before the guardrooms, the barrier in front of which on both sides contracted it from 10 to 8 cubits (Eze_40:12).
length of the gate] the gateway. This statement that the length of the gateway was 13 cubits is very obscure. The length of the gateway was 50 cubits (Eze_40:15). “Length” is a measurement from E. to W., and cannot be taken in the sense of “height.” It has been suggested that possibly the whole gateway of 50 cubits was not covered; that it consisted of a covered portion at each end, with an unroofed space in the middle, and that this covered portion is here referred to. But no ground appears for calling one part of the passage the gateway; and further the guardrooms and intermediate spaces were provided with windows, a fact which suggests that the whole was roofed over. LXX. read or perhaps interpreted “breadth,” which is equally obscure.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The breadth of the entry (literally, opening) of the…
The breadth of the entry (literally, opening) of the gate, ten cubits. Obviously this measurement was taken from north to south of the gate-entrance (ver. 6), and represented the whole breadth of the doorway and the threshold, or one-fifth of the entire length of the gate-building. The second portion of the verse, the length of the gate thirteen cubits, is explained by Bottcher, Hitzig, Havernick, Keil (with whom Plumptre agrees), as signifying the length of the covered way from the east entrance, since it is supposed the whole length of forty cubits (the length of the gate without the porch) would hardly be roofed in; so that assuming a similar covered way of thirteen cubits at the other end of the gate-building, as one came "from the house," there would be an open space, well, or uncovered courtyard, of fourteen cubits in length and six broad, enclosed on all sides by gate-buildings. The roofs extending from the east and west would be supported on the "posts" of the chambers mentioned in ver. 10. Smend, however, infers, from the windows in the posts within the gate (ver. 16), that the whole extent was roofed in, and accordingly can offer no explanation of the clause; Kliefoth and Schroder prefer to regard the thirteen cubits as the height of the gate, although the word translated "length" never elsewhere has this meaning.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 gateway entrance
gateway entrance
"the opening which was the entrance of the gate"
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ten cubits
about 5.4 meters (See: Biblical Distance)
cubits
See how you translated these "long" cubits in Ezekiel 40:05.
thirteen cubits
about 7 meters
The chambers measured six cubits
"The chambers were 6 cubits long"
the chambers
"the alcoves" or "the rooms"
six cubits
about 3.2 meters
one cubit
"54 centimeters" or "about one-half meter"
twenty-five cubits
about 13.5 meters
that of the second
"the entrance of the second chamber"
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