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Ezekiel 42:2

Ezekiel 42:2 is verse 2 of Ezekiel chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

The building was approximately 175 feet long and 87.5 feet wide (53.3 meters long and 26.7 meters wide).

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King James Version

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

World English Bible

Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.

A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

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Ezekiel 42:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.

2 The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

3 Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.

4 In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

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