41:1 Then he brought me to the sanctuary, and he measured the side pillars: six ①cubits wide on each side was the width of the ②side pillar.
▷ ①Each of these cubits equals about 21 in. or 53 cm ②As in LXX; MT tent
41:2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the ①sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured ②the length of the sanctuary, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
▷ ①Lit shoulders ②Lit its length,
41:3 Then he went ①inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.
▷ ①I.e., of the inner sanctuary
41:4 And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the sanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the ①temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
▷ ①Lit house, and so throughout the ch
41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, ①one above another, and ②thirty in each story; and ③the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on ④their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.
▷ ①Lit chamber upon chamber ②Lit thirty times ③Lit they were coming ④Lit the inside of the side chambers
41:7 And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ①second story.
▷ ①Lit middle
41:8 I saw also that the house had a raised ①platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full ②rod of six ③long cubits in height.
▷ ①Lit height ②Lit reed ③Or to the joint
41:9 The ①thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple
▷ ①Lit width
41:10 and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side.
41:11 The ①doorways of the side ②chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.
▷ ①Lit doorway ②Lit chamber
41:12 The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits ①thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
▷ ①Lit wide
41:13 Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
41:14 Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate ①areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.
▷ ①Lit area
41:15 And he measured the length of the building ①along the front of the separate area behind it, with a ②gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard.
▷ ①Lit to ②Or passageway
41:16 The thresholds, the ①latticed windows, and the ②galleries all around their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),
▷ ①Or framed ②Or passageways
41:17 over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.
41:18 It was ①carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces:
▷ ①Lit made
41:19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were ①carved on all the house all around.
▷ ①Lit made
41:20 From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were ①carved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.
▷ ①Lit made
41:21 The doorposts of the sanctuary were square; as for the front of the inner ①sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.
▷ ①Lit holy place
41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its ①base, and its ②sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
▷ ①Lit length ②Lit walls
41:23 The sanctuary and the inner ①sanctuary each had a double door.
▷ ①Lit holy place
41:24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two ①swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.
▷ ①Or turning
41:25 Also there were ①carved on them, on the doors of the main room, cherubim and palm trees like those ②carved on the walls; and there was a ③threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.
▷ ①Lit made ②Lit made ③Or canopy of wood over
41:26 And there were ①latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; the same were on the side chambers of the house and the ②thresholds.
▷ ①Or framed ②Or canopies