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Chambers for the Priests

Ezekiel 42:4

In 11 translations

BSB
In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.LXX. The walkway was approximately 17.5 feet wide and 175 feet long (5.3 meters wide and 53.3 meters long). Hebrew ten cubits wide and a cubit long.
KJV
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
WEB
Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
ASV
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
LSV
And at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth to the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the north.
YLT
And at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the north.
DBY
and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.
DRC
And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.
GNV
And before the chambers was a gallery of ten cubites wide, and within was a way of one cubite, and their doores towarde the North.
JPS
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
LXXE
And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְלִפְנֵ֨י הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹת מַהֲלַךְ֩ עֶ֨שֶׂר אַמּ֥וֹת רֹ֨חַב֙ אֶל־הַפְּנִימִ֔ית דֶּ֖רֶךְ אַמָּ֣ה אֶחָ֑ת וּפִתְחֵיהֶ֖ם לַצָּפֽוֹן׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ κατέναντι τῶν ἐξεδρῶν περίπατος πηχῶν δέκα τὸ πλάτος, ἐπὶ πήχεις ἑκατὸν τὸ μῆκος, καὶ τὰ θυρώματα αὐτῶν πρὸς Βοῤῥᾶν,

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  • Ezekiel 46:19Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end
  • Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
  • Matthew 7:14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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