Ezekiel 40: 5

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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
EZEKIEL

CHAPTER 40

5 And behold a wall on the outside of the ^ahouse round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six ^bcubits long ^cby the cubit and an hand breadth: so he ^dmeasured the ^ebreadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Footnotes

5a	TG Temple.
b	Ezek. 41: 8. 8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great ^acubits. Ezek. 43: 13. 13 ¶ And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a ^acubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
c	IE six long cubits, of a cubit plus a hand-breadth each. Thus each would be about 21 inches or 53 cm; and the total length of the measuring reed is about 10.5 feet or 3.2 m.
d	Ezek. 42: 20. 20 He ^ameasured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, ^bfive hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the ^cprofane place.
e	Rev. 21: 16. 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the ^alength is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand ^bfurlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.