Ezekiel Chapter 40 verse 11 Holy Bible
And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
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And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;
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And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
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And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
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He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
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And he measureth the breadth of the opening of the gate ten cubits, the length of the gate thirteen cubits;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - The breadth of the entry (literally, opening) of the gate, ten cubits. Obviously this measurement was taken from north to south of the gate-entrance (ver. 6), and represented the whole breadth of the doorway and the threshold, or one-fifth of the entire length of the gate-building. The second portion of the verse, the length of the gate thirteen cubits, is explained by Bottcher, Hitzig, Havernick, Keil (with whom Plumptre agrees), as signifying the length of the covered way from the east entrance, since it is supposed the whole length of forty cubits (the length of the gate without the porch) would hardly be roofed in; so that assuming a similar covered way of thirteen cubits at the other end of the gate-building, as one came "from the house," there would be an open space, well, or uncovered courtyard, of fourteen cubits in length and six broad, enclosed on all sides by gate-buildings. The roofs extending from the east and west would be supported on the "posts" of the chambers mentioned in ver. 10. Smend, however, infers, from the windows in the posts within the gate (ver. 16), that the whole extent was roofed in, and accordingly can offer no explanation of the clause; Kliefoth and Schroder prefer to regard the thirteen cubits as the height of the gate, although the word translated "length" never elsewhere has this meaning.
