Ezekiel 40 — The measured gates, courtyards and tables — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 40:17, 40:44
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Ezekiel 40 — The measured gates, courtyards and tables
40:1–40:4 — The vision and the measuring man
Verse 40:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:1] In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on that very day YHWH’s hand was upon me, and He brought me there.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:1] In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was captured, on that day the Lord’s hand came upon me, and He led me
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly names the first month, and captured rather than struck. Its movement clause continues into 40:2.
Verse 40:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:2] In visions of God He brought me into Israel’s land and set me upon a very high mountain. Upon it, toward the south, was something like a city’s structure.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:2] in a vision of God into Israel’s land and set me upon a very high mountain. Upon it, opposite, was something like a city’s structure.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew visions is plural, Greek vision singular; Hebrew south becomes Greek opposite.
Verse 40:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:3] He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like copper, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. He was standing at the gate.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:3] He brought me in there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like gleaming copper. In his hand were a builders’ cord and a measuring reed, and he stood at the gate.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds gleaming and calls the cord builders’ rather than linen.
Verse 40:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:4] The man said to me, ‘Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears and set your heart upon everything I show you, for you were brought here so that it might be shown to you. Tell Israel’s house everything you see.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:4] The man said to me, ‘Have you seen, son of man? See with your eyes, hear with your ears and set in your heart everything I show you, for you have entered here so that it might be shown to you. Show Israel’s house everything you see.’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds the opening question, gives you entered instead of you were brought, and commands showing rather than telling.
40:5–40:16 — The wall and the east gate
Verse 40:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:5] Behold, a wall surrounded the house outside. In the man’s hand was a measuring reed of six cubits, each a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the structure’s width, one reed, and its height, one reed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:5] Behold, an enclosure surrounded the house outside. In the man’s hand was a reed measuring six cubits by the cubit and handbreadth. He measured the outer wall: its width equaled the reed, and its height equaled the reed.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both define the long cubit and the reed and give the wall one reed in width and height. No modern unit conversion is imposed.
Verse 40:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:6] He came to the gate facing east and went up its steps. He measured the gate’s threshold, one reed wide, and the other threshold, one reed wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:6] He entered the gate facing east by seven steps and measured the gate’s porch, equal to the reed,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly has seven steps and measures an ailam, provisionally porch, once; Hebrew measures two thresholds and gives no step count here.
Verse 40:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:7] The chamber was one reed long and one reed wide, with five cubits between chambers. The gate’s threshold beside the gate’s porch on the house side was one reed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:7] and the chamber, one reed long and one reed wide; the porch between the chambers was six cubits. The second chamber was one reed wide and one reed long, and the porch five cubits,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek describes a second chamber and two porch dimensions, six and five cubits; Hebrew has five between chambers and a one-reed threshold. Greek thee/theeim and thaiēlatha are provisionally chamber terms, with ailam porch; no architectural reconciliation is imposed.
Verse 40:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:8] He measured the gate’s porch on the house side, one reed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:8] and the third chamber was one reed wide and one reed long,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew measures a porch; Greek adds the third chamber’s dimensions.
Verse 40:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:9] He measured the gate’s porch, eight cubits, and its jambs, two cubits; the gate’s porch was on the house side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:9] and the gateway’s porch beside the gate’s porch was eight cubits, the jambs two cubits, and the gate’s porch on the inside.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek repeats a porch/gate relationship not explicit in Hebrew. Its aileu is provisionally rendered jambs.
Verse 40:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:10] The east-facing gate had three chambers on this side and three on that side, one measurement for all three, and one measurement for the jambs on this side and that side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:10] The gate’s chambers were chambers opposite one another, three on this side and three on that side, one measurement for all three and one measurement for the porches on this side and that side.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks the repeated east direction and has porches where Hebrew has jambs. Both preserve three chambers on each side.
Verse 40:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:11] He measured the gate entrance’s width, ten cubits, and the gate’s length, thirteen cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:11] He measured the gateway door’s width, ten cubits, and the gateway’s breadth, thirteen cubits,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The numbers agree; Hebrew’s thirteen-cubit length becomes Greek breadth.
Verse 40:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:12] A barrier before the chambers was one cubit, and a one-cubit barrier on the other side. The chamber was six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:12] with one additional cubit before the chambers on each side, and the chamber six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew names a barrier or boundary; Greek describes an added cubit.
Verse 40:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:13] He measured the gate from one chamber’s roof to the other’s roof, twenty-five cubits wide, entrance opposite entrance.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:13] He measured the gate from a chamber’s wall to a chamber’s wall, twenty-five cubits wide, gate opposite gate.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew roof-to-roof becomes Greek wall-to-wall; both give twenty-five cubits.
Verse 40:14 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:14] He made the jambs sixty cubits. At the courtyard’s jamb, the gateway all around.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:14] The open court of the gate’s porch was sixty cubits, with twenty chambers around the gate.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew gives jambs sixty cubits and a compressed courtyard/gateway clause; Greek gives a sixty-cubit open court and twenty chambers. Neither an unstated height nor a harmonized plan is supplied.
Verse 40:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:15] From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner gate porch was fifty cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:15] From the gate’s outer open court to the inner open court of the gate’s porch was fifty cubits.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew front-to-front becomes Greek open-court-to-open-court; the fifty cubits agrees.
Verse 40:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:16] There were closed windows for the chambers and their jambs inward around the gate, and likewise for the porches; windows were all around inward, and palm trees upon the jamb.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:16] There were concealed windows upon the chambers and porches inside the courtyard gate all around, and likewise windows around the porches inward, and palm trees upon the porch on both sides.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew jambs becomes Greek porches in two places, and Greek adds both sides for the palms. Closed/concealed describes the source terms provisionally; the precise window construction is not reconstructed.
40:17–40:23 — The courtyard and the north gate
Verse 40:17 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:17] He brought me into the outer courtyard. Behold, chambers and paving had been made around the courtyard, thirty chambers upon the paving.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:17] He brought me into the inner courtyard. Behold, there were chambers and colonnades around the courtyard, thirty chambers in the colonnades,
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew outer courtyard becomes Greek inner courtyard, and paving becomes colonnades.
Verse 40:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:18] The paving was beside the gates, corresponding to the gates’ length—the lower paving.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:18] and porticoes behind the gates, corresponding to the gates’ length—the lower colonnade.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew paving beside gates becomes Greek porticoes behind gates and a lower colonnade.
Verse 40:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:19] He measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the outside front of the inner courtyard, one hundred cubits, on the east and the north.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:19] He measured the courtyard’s width from the outer gate’s open court inward to the open court of the gate facing outward, one hundred cubits, at the east-facing gate. He brought me north,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek measures between open courts and adds the movement north; Hebrew ends with east and north.
Verse 40:20 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:20] As for the gate facing north into the outer courtyard, he measured its length and width.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:20] and behold, a gate faced north in the outer courtyard. He measured its length and width.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The north gate in the outer courtyard agrees.
Verse 40:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:21] Its three chambers on this side and three on that side, its jambs and porches had the first gate’s measurements: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:21] Its chambers, three on this side and three on that side, its jambs, porches and palm trees matched the east-facing gate’s measurements: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds palm trees and specifies the east gate instead of the first gate. Ailammo is provisionally rendered porches throughout the following descriptions.
Verse 40:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:22] Its windows, porches and palm trees matched the gate facing east. They went up it by seven steps, and its porches were before them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:22] Its windows, porches and palm trees were like the east-facing gate. They went up it by seven steps, and its porches were on the inside.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew before them becomes Greek inside; seven steps agrees.
Verse 40:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:23] A gate to the inner courtyard stood opposite the gate on the north and on the east. He measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:23] A gate in the inner courtyard faced the north gate, as with the east-facing gate. He measured the courtyard from gate to gate, one hundred cubits.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek clarifies the northern arrangement by comparison with the east; both preserve one hundred cubits.
40:24–40:31 — The southern gates
Verse 40:24 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:24] He led me south, and behold, a gate faced south. He measured its jambs and porches according to these measurements.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:24] He led me south, and behold, a gate faced south. He measured it, its chambers, jambs and porches according to these measurements.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly includes the gate and chambers in what he measures.
Verse 40:25 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:25] It and its porches had windows all around like these windows: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:25] Its windows and porches all around were like the porch’s windows: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The fifty-by-twenty-five dimensions agree; Greek specifies the porch’s windows as the comparison.
Verse 40:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:26] Its ascent had seven steps, with its porches before them, and palm trees upon its jambs, one on this side and one on that side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:26] It had seven steps, with porches on the inside and palm trees upon its jambs, one on this side and one on that side.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Before them versus inside recurs; the step and palm counts agree.
Verse 40:27 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:27] A gate to the inner courtyard faced south. He measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:27] A gate stood opposite the gate of the inner courtyard toward the south. He measured the courtyard from gate to gate, a breadth of one hundred cubits toward the south.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly says opposite and identifies the measured courtyard breadth.
Verse 40:28 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:28] He brought me into the inner courtyard through the south gate and measured the south gate according to these measurements.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:28] He brought me into the inner courtyard by the south-facing gate and measured the gate according to these measurements,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both begin measuring the inner south gate.
Verse 40:29 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:29] Its chambers, jambs and porches had these measurements. It and its porches had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:29] with its chambers, jambs and porches according to these measurements. It and its porches had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The full fifty-by-twenty-five measurement agrees.
Verse 40:30 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:30] There were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[—] — No counterpart at this label in the declared Greek text.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The declared Greek source has no 40:30 label or corresponding twenty-five-by-five porch statement here.
Verse 40:31 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:31] Its porches faced the outer courtyard; palm trees were upon its jambs, and its ascent had eight steps.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:31] The porches faced the outer courtyard, with palm trees upon the jambs and eight steps.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The outer direction, palms and eight steps agree.
40:32–40:37 — The inner eastern and northern gates
Verse 40:32 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:32] He brought me into the inner courtyard toward the east and measured the gate according to these measurements.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:32] He brought me into the east-facing gate and measured it according to these measurements,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew names the inner courtyard; Greek directly names the east-facing gate.
Verse 40:33 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:33] Its chambers, jambs and porches had these measurements. It and its porches had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:33] with its chambers, jambs and porches according to these measurements. It and its porches had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The repeated dimensions and windows agree.
Verse 40:34 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:34] Its porches faced the outer courtyard, with palm trees upon its jambs on this side and that side, and its ascent had eight steps.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:34] The porches faced the inner courtyard, with palm trees upon the jambs on this side and that side, and it had eight steps.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew outer courtyard becomes Greek inner courtyard. Both retain eight steps.
Verse 40:35 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:35] He brought me to the north gate and measured it according to these measurements.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:35] He brought me into the north-facing gate and measured according to these measurements,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The northward measurement corresponds.
Verse 40:36 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:36] Its chambers, jambs and porches, and its windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:36] with its chambers, jambs and porches. It and its porch had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly includes the porch’s windows; the dimensions agree.
Verse 40:37 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:37] Its jambs faced the outer courtyard, with palm trees upon its jambs on this side and that side, and its ascent had eight steps.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:37] Its porches faced the outer courtyard, with palm trees upon the jambs on this side and that side, and it had eight steps.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew’s first noun is jambs, Greek porches; both name jambs for the palms.
40:38–40:47 — Sacrificial tables and priestly chambers
Verse 40:38 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:38] A chamber and its opening were by the gates’ jambs; there they rinsed the burnt offering.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:38] Its chambers, doorframes and porches were at the gate—
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew chamber, opening, jambs and rinsing the burnt offering differs from Greek’s plural architectural list, whose sentence continues at 40:39.
Verse 40:39 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:39] In the gate’s porch were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, upon which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering and guilt offering.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:39] the second—with a drain, so that they may slaughter there the offerings for sin and for ignorance.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has a drain and offerings for sin/ignorance, without Hebrew’s four tables or burnt offering here. Its compressed gate/drain syntax is retained provisionally.
Verse 40:40 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:40] Outside, at the side as one ascends to the north gate’s entrance, were two tables; at the other side belonging to the gate’s porch were two tables.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:40] Behind the burnt offerings’ channel at the north-facing gate were two tables toward the east; behind the second and the gate’s porch were two tables toward the east,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek gives a burnt-offering channel and explicitly repeats east. Hebrew’s ascending-entry description and two sides are not substituted into Greek.
Verse 40:41 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:41] Four tables on this side and four on that side beside the gate: eight tables upon which they slaughtered.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:41] four on this side and four on that side behind the gate. Upon them they will slaughter the victims, opposite the eight tables for victims.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Both state four and four and eight; Greek additionally has opposite the eight tables. Its relationship between the table groups is not resolved by deleting that phrase.
Verse 40:42 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:42] There were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and one cubit high. Upon them they placed the implements with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and sacrifice.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:42] There were four hewn-stone tables for the burnt offerings, one and a half cubits wide, two and a half cubits long and one cubit high. Upon them they will place the implements with which they slaughter the burnt offerings and victims there.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew length is one and a half cubits; Greek two and a half. Width and height agree.
Verse 40:43 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:43] Hooks one handbreadth long were fixed inside the house all around, and the offering’s flesh was upon the tables.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:43] They will have a hewn ledge of one handbreadth inside all around, and coverings above the tables to shelter them from rain and dry heat.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew’s rare hooks term is provisional. Greek gives a hewn ledge and weather coverings instead of offering flesh upon the tables.
Verse 40:44 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:44] Outside the inner gate were singers’ chambers in the inner courtyard, beside the north gate, facing south; one beside the east gate faced north.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:44] He brought me into the inner courtyard, and behold, two recessed chambers were in the inner courtyard: one behind the north-facing gate faced south, and one behind the south gate faced north.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew singers’ chambers and an east-gate location becomes Greek two recessed chambers and a south-gate location. The directions are not harmonized.
Verse 40:45 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:45] He said to me, ‘This chamber facing south is for the priests who keep the house’s charge.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:45] He said to me, ‘This recessed chamber facing south is for the priests who keep the house’s charge,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The southern-facing room’s priestly duty agrees.
Verse 40:46 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:46] The chamber facing north is for the priests who keep the altar’s charge. They are Zadok’s sons, who draw near to YHWH from among Levi’s sons to minister to Him.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:46] and the recessed chamber facing north is for the priests who keep the altar’s charge. They are Zadok’s sons, who draw near to the Lord from Levi to minister to Him.’
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek Saddouk is normalized to the recognizable Zadok, explicitly identified by the same priestly relationship; Hebrew says Levi’s sons, Greek Levi.
Verse 40:47 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:47] He measured the courtyard, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, square. The altar stood before the house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:47] He measured the courtyard, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits broad on its four sides, and the altar before the house.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The courtyard’s one-hundred-by-one-hundred dimensions agree.
40:48–40:49 — The house’s porch
Verse 40:48 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:48] He brought me to the house’s porch and measured the porch’s jamb, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; the gate’s breadth was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:48] He brought me into the house’s porch. He measured the porch’s jamb, five cubits broad on this side and five on that side; the doorway’s breadth was fourteen cubits, and the porch door’s side pieces three cubits on this side and three on that side.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly gives a fourteen-cubit doorway and three-cubit side pieces; Hebrew gives the gate’s breadth as three on each side without the fourteen-cubit opening.
Verse 40:49 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[40:49] The porch was twenty cubits long and eleven cubits wide, with steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the jambs, one on this side and one on that side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[40:49] The porch was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits broad. They went up to it by ten steps, and there were pillars at the porch, one on this side and one on that side.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew width is eleven cubits; Greek twelve. Greek gives ten steps where Hebrew supplies no number, and locates pillars at the porch rather than the jambs.