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Ezekiel 40:32 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements; "
Ezekiel 40:32
Verse in Context
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30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
31 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.
32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
33 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
34 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
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Ezekiel 40:1
"In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day, the LORD’s hand was on me, and he brought me there."
Ezekiel 40:2
"In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south."
Ezekiel 40:3
"He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate."
Ezekiel 40:4
"The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”"
Ezekiel 40:5
"Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed."
Ezekiel 40:6
"Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide."
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