^41:2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,² and the sides³ of the entrance were 8¾ feet⁴ on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet,⁵ and its width as 35 feet.⁶

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Footnotes

2 Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
3 The translation follows the . The reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography. Or “sidewalls.”
4 Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
5 Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
6 Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet, and the width, 35 feet.

NLTNew Living Translation

The doorway was 17½ feet wide, and the walls on each side of it were 8¾ feet long. The sanctuary itself was 70 feet long and 35 feet wide.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the width of the doorway was ten cubits, and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side, and he measured its length as forty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

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