Ezequiel 42:8

8 Porque la longitud de las cámaras que estaban en el atrio exterior era de cincuenta codos; y las que estaban frente al templo tenían cien codos.

Ezequiel 42:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 42:8

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court
was fifty cubits
Which was the reason why the wall was of the same length, that it might be answerable to them; here length is put for breadth; see ( Ezekiel 42:2 ) , this measure was from the north to south, as Lipman ^F24 observes: and lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits;
as the breadth of the wall and chambers was fifty, so in length, as they were over against the temple, they were an hundred cubits, as in ( Ezekiel 42:2 ) , unless the account is to be taken thus; that the row of chambers towards the north were fifty cubits long, and the row towards the south over against the other was fifty cubits, and so both made a hundred; to which sense is the Septuagint version,

``for the length of the chambers that look to the outward court was fifty cubits, and those (that is, those that looked to the temple, or were before that) answered to them, the whole a hundred cubits;''

that is, both rows made a hundred cubits; but rather, as Lipman ^F25 says, the chambers contained from east to west a hundred cubits.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 71.
F25 Ibid.

Ezequiel 42:8 In-Context

6 Pues estaban en tres pisos y no tenían pilares como los pilares de los atrios; por tanto las cámaras superiores se estrechaban a partir del suelo más que las inferiores y las intermedias.

7 Y el muro exterior a lo largo de las cámaras, en dirección al atrio exterior frente a las cámaras, tenía cincuenta codos de largo.

8 Porque la longitud de las cámaras que estaban en el atrio exterior era de cincuenta codos; y las que estaban frente al templo tenían cien codos.

9 Y debajo de estas cámaras estaba la entrada del lado oriental, para entrar en ellas desde el atrio exterior.

10 A lo ancho del muro del atrio hacia el oriente, frente a la zona separada y frente al edificio, había cámaras.