For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
- BSB For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
- NKJV The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits.
- NASB For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a hundred cubits.
- NLT This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87-1/2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet.
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- Ezek 41:13–14So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;
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