Ezekiel 41 — The temple hall, side chambers, and inner furnishings — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Ezekiel 41 — The temple hall, side chambers, and inner furnishings
Source exception: Greek chapter 41 uses Rahlfs 1935 in the fixed Wikisource transcription [G41], not the inaccessible 2006 publisher page.
41:1–41:4 — The hall and the Most Holy Place
Verse 41:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:1] He brought me to the temple hall and measured the jambs: six cubits wide on this side and six cubits wide on that side, the breadth of the tent.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:1] He brought me into the temple, for which he measured the porch: six cubits in breadth on this side and six cubits in the porch's width on that side.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew measures jambs and explicitly says the breadth of the tent; Greek measures the porch. Greek in this entire chapter is the separately declared Rahlfs 1935 transcription, not an asserted reading of the inaccessible 2006 publisher page.
Verse 41:2 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:2] The entrance was ten cubits wide, with sidepieces of five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:2] The gateway was ten cubits wide, with sidepieces of five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both give the entrance and hall dimensions as ten, five on each side, and forty by twenty cubits.
Verse 41:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:3] He went inward and measured the entrance's jamb, two cubits; the entrance, six cubits; and the entrance's breadth, seven cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:3] He entered the inner court and measured the doorway's jamb, two cubits; the doorway, six cubits; and the doorway's sidepieces, seven cubits on this side and seven cubits on that side.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew inward contrasts with Greek inner court. Hebrew gives an entrance breadth of seven; Greek explicitly gives seven-cubit sidepieces on each side.
Verse 41:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:4] He measured its length, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple hall. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:4] He measured the length of the doors, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple. He said, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew length is twenty; Greek forty and explicitly speaks of the doors. The unexpected Greek object and dimension are not replaced by a reconstructed room plan.
41:5–41:14 — Side chambers and the surrounding structures
Verse 41:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:5] He measured the house's wall, six cubits, and the side chamber's breadth, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:5] He measured the house's wall, six cubits, and the side chamber's breadth, four cubits, all around.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The six-cubit wall and four-cubit side breadth agree.
Verse 41:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:6] The side chambers stood chamber against chamber, three and thirty times. They entered into the wall belonging to the house for the side chambers all around, so as to be attached, but they were not to be attached within the house's wall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:6] The side chambers stood chamber upon chamber, thirty and three, twice over. There was an interval in the house's wall among the side chambers all around, so that those taking hold could see, and might not touch the house's walls at all.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's compressed three-and-thirty-times wording and Greek's thirty-and-three, twice-over wording are preserved without asserting a floor count. Greek's taking-hold/seeing clause differs substantially from Hebrew's attachment construction and has an uncertain architectural referent.
Verse 41:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:7] The side chambers widened with an ascent winding upward and upward, for the house's winding course went upward and upward all around the house. Thus the house became wider above, and one went up from the lower level to the upper through the middle.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:7] The breadth of the upper side chambers followed the addition from the wall toward the upper part all around the house, so that it widened above and people could go up from the lower parts to the upper stories, and from the middle parts to the third stories.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both describe widening upward. Hebrew has an ascent through the middle to the upper level; Greek explicitly distinguishes upper stories and third stories.
Verse 41:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:8] I saw that the house had a raised height all around. The foundations of the side chambers were a full reed, six cubits to the joint.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:8] The house's thrael rose all around; the interval of the side chambers equaled the reed, a space of six cubits.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew explicitly says I saw and names foundations; Greek has the obscure form thrael, retained without a confident architectural identification. Hebrew ’atsilah is provisionally 'to the joint'; neither uncertain term is used to claim an exact reconstruction.
Verse 41:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:9] The outer wall of the side chamber was five cubits wide; the space left free was the side-chamber area belonging to the house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:9] The outer wall of the side chamber was five cubits wide; the remaining spaces lay between the house's side chambers—
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The five-cubit width agrees. Hebrew's final house/side-chambers phrase is compressed; Greek's remaining-spaces construction continues into verse 10.
Verse 41:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:10] Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits, around the house on every side.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:10] —and between the recessed chambers, with a breadth of twenty cubits, encircling the house all around.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both give a twenty-cubit intervening breadth around the house.
Verse 41:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:11] The side chamber's entrance opened onto the space left free: one entrance toward the north and one entrance toward the south. The space left free was five cubits wide all around.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:11] The doors of the recessed chambers opened onto the remaining area of the one door toward the north; the other door faced south. The opening of the remaining area was five cubits wide all around.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The two directions and five-cubit breadth agree; Greek's relation of remaining area to the northern door is compressed and retained provisionally.
Verse 41:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:12] The building opposite the separate area on the western side was seventy cubits wide. The building's wall was five cubits wide all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:12] The dividing structure opposite the remaining area toward the sea was seventy cubits. The dividing structure's wall was five cubits in breadth all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The numerical measurements agree; Hebrew building/separate area and Greek dividing structure/remaining area retain their own architectural vocabulary.
Verse 41:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:13] He measured the house, a hundred cubits long; the separate area, the building, and its walls were a hundred cubits long.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:13] He measured opposite the house, a length of a hundred cubits; the remaining spaces, dividing structures, and their walls were a hundred cubits long.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew measures the house; Greek opposite the house. Both give two spans of a hundred cubits.
Verse 41:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:14] The breadth of the front of the house and the separate area toward the east was a hundred cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:14] The breadth in front of the house and the remaining spaces opposite was a hundred cubits.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both give a hundred cubits; Hebrew explicitly specifies east.
41:15–41:26 — Woodwork, cherubim, and the altar-table
Verse 41:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:15] He measured the length of the building opposite the separate area behind it, with its galleries on both sides: a hundred cubits. The inner temple hall and the courtyard's porches,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:15] He measured the dividing structure opposite the remaining area behind that house, with the remaining spaces on both sides: a hundred cubits in length. The temple, the corners, and the outer porch—
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew galleries, inner hall, and courtyard porches contrast with Greek remaining spaces, corners, and outer porch. Each description continues into verse 16.
Verse 41:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:16] the thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows; the windows were covered.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:16] —were coffered. The windows were latticed, with light-openings around the three, so that one could look through. The house and the adjoining areas were covered with wood all around, as were the floor and the space from the floor to the windows; the windows opened in three ways for looking through.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew closed/covered windows contrast with Greek latticed windows opening three ways. Greek explicitly names coffering, light-openings, and the purpose of looking through.
Verse 41:17 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:17] Above the entrance, as far as the inner house and outside, and upon the entire wall all around, inside and outside, were measured designs.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:17] As far as the vicinity of the inner and outer parts, and over the whole wall all around, inside and outside,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew's final middot is provisionally measured designs; Greek continues directly into the carvings in verse 18.
Verse 41:18 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:18] Cherubim and palm trees were made, a palm tree between each cherub and the next, and each cherub had two faces:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:18] cherubim were carved, with palm trees between each cherub and the next. Each cherub had two faces:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both specify alternating cherubim/palms and two faces per cherub.
Verse 41:19 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:19] a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side. These were made throughout the house all around.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:19] a human face toward the palm tree on this side and that side, and a lion's face toward the palm tree on this side and that side. The whole house was carved all around,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew contrasts one side with the other and specifies a young lion; Greek repeats both sides for each face and says lion.
Verse 41:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:20] From the ground to above the entrance the cherubim and palm trees were made, and on the temple hall's wall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:20] from the floor to the coffered ceiling, with the cherubim and palm trees carved.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew reaches above the entrance and explicitly adds the hall's wall; Greek reaches the coffering.
Verse 41:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:21] The temple hall had square doorposts. In front of the holy place, the appearance was like the appearance.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:21] The holy place and the temple opened out in square forms. In front of the holy places was an appearance like the sight
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew square doorposts contrast with Greek square opening forms. Hebrew's repeated appearance phrase remains open; Greek's comparison continues explicitly to the altar in verse 22.
Verse 41:22 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:22] The altar was wood, three cubits high and two cubits long. It had its corners; its lengthwise structure and its walls were wood. He said to me, “This is the table before YHWH.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:22] of a wooden altar, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. It had horns, and its base and its walls were wood. He said to me, “This is the table before the Lord.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds a two-cubit breadth and has horns and base; Hebrew corners and the repeated length term are preserved, the latter provisionally as lengthwise structure.
Verse 41:23 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:23] The temple hall and the holy place had two doors.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:23] The temple and the holy place had two doorways.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both state two doors or doorways in relation to the hall and holy place.
Verse 41:24 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:24] The doors had two leaves—two turning leaves, two for one door and two leaves for the other.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:24] The two pivoting doorways had two leaves: two leaves for the one and two leaves for the second door.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The repeated two-leaf arrangement is retained; leaf is the contextual rendering of door terms in this hinged-door description.
Verse 41:25 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:25] Cherubim and palm trees were made on them, on the temple hall's doors, as they were made on the walls. A wooden canopy stood before the porch outside.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:25] Carving was on them, and on the temple's doorways were cherubim and palm trees, matching the carving of the holy places. Fine timbers stood in front of the porch outside,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew compares the walls and has an uncertain wooden canopy; Greek compares the holy places and names fine timbers. Greek continues into verse 26.
Verse 41:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[41:26] Closed windows and palm trees were on either side, on the porch's sidepieces, with the house's side chambers and the canopies.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[41:26] with concealed windows. He measured on this side and that side toward the porch's ceilings, and the house's side chambers were joined together.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has a measuring action, ceilings, and joined side chambers, without Hebrew's palms and canopies. The architectural relations remain qualified.