Ezekiel 40:15
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.
Webster's Revision
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
World English Bible
[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
Clarke's Ezekiel 40:15 Bible Commentary
Fifty cubits - The length of the building. See MMMMM in the plan.
Barnes's Ezekiel 40:15 Bible Commentary
The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:
Thickness of boundary wall 6 cubits Hall of the entrance 5 cubits Three guard-chambers (6 cubits) 18 cubits Spaces between guard-chambers 10 cubits Hall of the porch 5 cubits The porch 6 cubits Total 50 cubits Ezekiel 40:16
The "narrow" (closed and (?)latticed "windows" lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the "post" stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.
Wesley's Ezekiel 40:15 Bible Commentary
40:15 And - This verse seems to sum up all the dimensions; this gate, its porch, and thickness of its walls, and so sum the cubits, six in the thickness of the outer wall, eighteen in the three chambers, twenty in the spaces between the chambers, and six cubits in the thickness in the inner wall of the porch.