Ezekiel Chapter 40 verse 8 Holy Bible
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
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And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,
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And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.
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He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
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He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
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And he measureth the porch of the gate from within one reed,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 8, 9. - The divergent measurements of this porch, which are given in these verses, led the LXX. and the Vulgate to reject ver. 8 as spurious, and it is certainly wanting in some Hebrew manuscripts. Hitzig, Ewald, and Smend have accordingly expunged it from the text - an altogether unnecessary proceeding. The seeming discrepancy may be removed by supposing either, with Kliefoth, that ver. 8 furnishes the measurement of the porch from east to west, and ver. 9 its measurement from north to south, with the measurements in addition of the posts (אֵלִים, from אַיִל, "a ram," hence anything curved or twisted), i.e. pillars or jambs; or, with Keil, that ver. 8 states the depth from east to west, and ver. 9 the length from north to south. The "posts," which were sixty cubits high (ver. 14), were two cubits square at the base.
