He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.
Parallel translations
- KJV He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
- BSB Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
- ESV He measured also the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.
- NKJV He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.
- NASB He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended all around to the side pillar of the courtyard.
- NLT He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 27:9“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Ps 100:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
- Ezek 42:1Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.
- Ezek 8:7He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
- 1 Chr 28:6He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
- Isa 62:9but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
- Lev 6:16That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exod 35:17the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
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