Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
Parallel translations
- KJV And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
- BSB In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
- NKJV In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.
- NASB In front of the chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.
- NLT Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17-1/2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Ezek 46:19Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.
- Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
- Matt 7:14How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
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