Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
Parallel translations
- WEB He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.
- KJV He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
- 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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Quick answer
The posts are measured at sixty cubits, with the court reaching around the gate. The vertical and surrounding measures are noted.
Overview
The guide measures the posts at sixty cubits and notes that the court extends to the posts all around the gateway. The Hebrew here is difficult and translations vary, but the sense concerns the substantial structure of the gate's pillars and the surrounding court. Despite the textual uncertainty, the verse continues the pattern of comprehensive measurement that displays the grandeur and order of God's appointed house.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Exod 27:9You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
- Ps 100:4Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
- Ezek 42:1Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
- Ezek 8:7Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
- 1 Chr 28:6And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
- Isa 62:9For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
- Lev 6:16Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exod 35:17the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;
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