There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.
Parallel translations
- KJV And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
- BSB Seven steps led up to it, and its portico was opposite them; it had palm trees on its side pillars, one on each side.
- ESV And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was before them, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
- NKJV Seven steps led up to it, and its archway was in front of them; and it had palm trees on its gateposts, one on this side and one on that side.
- NASB There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree decorations on its side pillars, one on each side.
- NLT This gateway also had a stairway of seven steps leading up to it, and an entry room at the inner end, and palm tree decorations along the dividing walls.
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- Ezek 40:22The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.
- Ezek 40:16There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees.
- Ezek 40:6Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.
- Song 7:7–8This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
- Ezek 40:29and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
- 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
- Ps 92:12–13The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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