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.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
- 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.
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Quick answer
The chambers facing the outer court were fifty cubits long, while the temple side measured a hundred. The proportions of the rooms relative to the temple are noted.
Overview
The guide records the differing lengths of the chambers on the court side and the temple side. The measurements integrate these rooms into the larger ordered plan of the sanctuary. The detailed accounting again assures the exiles that God's house is fully and faithfully designed, pointing to the perfect order of his eternal dwelling.
Cross-references & the web
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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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