^11:6Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation¹¹ Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard.¹² You will take turns guarding the palace.¹³

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Footnotes

11 Heb “the gate of Sur” (followed by many English versions) but no such gate is mentioned elsewhere in the OT. The parallel account in 2 Chr 23:5 has “Foundation Gate.” סוּר (sur), “Sur,” may be a corruption of יְסוֹד (yésod) “foundation,” involving in part dalet-resh confusion.
12 Heb “the runners.”
13 The meaning of מַסָּח (massakh) is not certain. The translation above, rather than understanding it as a genitive modifying “house,” takes it as an adverb describing how the groups will guard the palace. See מַסָּח for the proposed meaning “alternating” (i.e., “in turns”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

(another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

a third at the Sur Gate, and a third at the gate behind the guard, who take turns guarding the temple—

CSBChristian Standard Bible

A third are to be at the Foundation Gate and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns providing protection for the palace.

NLTNew Living Translation

Another third of you are to stand guard at the Sur Gate. And the final third must stand guard behind the palace guard. These three groups will all guard the palace.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and another third at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the runners, shall guard the post of the palace alternately.

KJV 1900King James Version

And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.

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