The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 40:24 (NIV)

Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.

 

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Ezekiel 40:25 (NIV)

The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all round, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long
and twenty-five cubits wide.

 

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Ezekiel 40:26 (NIV)

Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side.

 

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Ezekiel 40:27 (NIV)

The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side;
it was a hundred cubits.

 

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Ezekiel 40:28 (NIV)

Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate;
it had the same measurements as the others.

 

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Ezekiel 40:29 (NIV)

Its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings
all round. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

 

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Ezekiel 40:30 (NIV)

(The porticoes of the gateways around the inner court were twenty-five cubits wide and five cubits deep.)

 

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Ezekiel 40:31 (NIV)

Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its jambs, and eight steps led up to it.

 

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Ezekiel 40:32 (NIV)

Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.

 

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Ezekiel 40:33 (NIV)

Its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings
all round. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:34 (NIV)

Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:35 (NIV)

Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,

 

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Ezekiel 40:36 (NIV)

as did its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico, and it had openings all round. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

 

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Ezekiel 40:37 (NIV)

Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.

 

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Ezekiel 40:38 (NIV)

A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings were washed.

 

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Ezekiel 40:39 (NIV)

In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings and
guilt offerings were slaughtered.

 

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Ezekiel 40:40 (NIV)

By the outside wall of the portico of the gateway, near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway were two tables,
and on the other side of the steps were two tables.

 

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Ezekiel 40:41 (NIV)

So there were four tables on one side of the gateway and four on the other – eight tables in all –
on which the sacrifices were slaughtered.

 

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Ezekiel 40:42 (NIV)

There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offerings, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide
and a cubit high. On them were placed the utensils for slaughtering the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.

 

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Ezekiel 40:43 (NIV)

And double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were attached to the wall all round. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.