The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the [a]sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured [b]the length of the sanctuary, (A)forty cubits, and the width, (B)twenty cubits.

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  1. Ezekiel 41:2 Lit shoulders
  2. Ezekiel 41:2 Lit its length,

The entrance was ten cubits[a] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits[b] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.[c](A)

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  1. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 18 feet or about 5.3 meters
  2. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verses 9, 11 and 12
  3. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 70 feet long and 35 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 11 meters wide

23 The (A)sanctuary and the inner [a](B)sanctuary each had a double (C)door. 24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two [b](D)swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 25 Also there were [c]carved on them, on the doors of the main room, (E)cherubim and (F)palm trees like those [d]carved on the walls; and there was a [e](G)threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.

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  1. Ezekiel 41:23 Lit holy place
  2. Ezekiel 41:24 Or turning
  3. Ezekiel 41:25 Lit made
  4. Ezekiel 41:25 Lit made
  5. Ezekiel 41:25 Or canopy of wood over

23 Both the main hall(A) and the Most Holy Place had double doors.(B) 24 Each door had two leaves—two hinged leaves(C) for each door. 25 And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico.

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