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Chambers for the Priests

Ezekiel 42:2

In 11 translations

BSB
The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.The building was approximately 175 feet long and 87.5 feet wide (53.3 meters long and 26.7 meters wide).
KJV
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
WEB
Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
ASV
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
LSV
At the front of the length [is] one hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth—fifty cubits.
YLT
At the front of the length [is] a hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.
DBY
before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
DRC
In the face of the north door was the length of a hundred cubits, and the breadth of fifty cubits.
GNV
Before ye length of an hundreth cubites, was the North doore, and it was fiftie cubites broad.
JPS
even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,
LXXE
a hundred cubits in length toward the north, and in breadth fifty,

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֶל־פְּנֵי־אֹ֨רֶךְ֙ אַמּ֣וֹת הַמֵּאָ֔ה פֶּ֖תַח הַצָּפ֑וֹן וְהָרֹ֖חַב חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אַמּֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
ἐπὶ πήχεις ἑκατὸν μῆκος πρὸς Βοῤῥᾶν, καὶ τὸ πλάτος πεντήκοντα,

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  • Ezekiel 41:13Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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