Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 40:20

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 20, 21.) He also measured the gate of the outer court that faced north, both in length and width. It had three rooms on each side, and its front and vestibule were the same size as those of the gate that faced east. The gate was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide, and its windows, vestibule, and carv…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

20and behold a gate looking northward belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;

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18And the porticoes were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.

19And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inward to the open space of the gate looking outward: a hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;

— Ezekiel 40:20 —

21and the chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

22And its windows, and its porches, and its palm trees, were according to the dimensions of the gate looking eastward; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porches were within.

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