Ezekiel 40:38
36 as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
37 Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees on each side. Eight steps led up to it.
There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.
39 Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.
40 Outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.
- KJV
- And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
- WEB
- A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
- ASV
- And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.
- DARBY
- And there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the gates; there they rinsed the burnt-offering.
- BLB
- And a chamber and its entrance [were] by the porticos of the gateways, where they washed the burnt offering.
- ÅB
- Og det var et kammer med dør i pilarene ved portene; der skulle de skylle brennofferet.
- OTB
- Et kammer med en døråpning var ved sidepilarene ved portene, der de skylte brennofferne.
- B1930
- Og det var et kammer med dør i pilarene ved portene; der skulde de skylle brennofferet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.
Read in contextLeviticus 1:9
The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Read in contextEzekiel 41:10–11
and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
Read in contextEzekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
Read in contextEzekiel 40:12
In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.
Read in context1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
Read in contextHebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Read in contextLeviticus 8:21
He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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