Ezekiel 40:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area. The length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length, so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed, and the height, one reed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And behold, there was a wall all around the outside area of the house [of the Lord], and in the man's hand a measuring reed six long cubits in length, each cubit being longer [than the usual one] by a handbreadth; so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed, and the height, one reed.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Common English Bible

⁵ Now there was an outer wall that went all the way around the temple compound. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was ten and a half feet (based on a standard eighteen inches plus three inches). When he measured the wall’s height and width it was ten and a half feet high and ten and a half feet wide.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And behold, there was a wall outside of the house, encircling it all around, and in the man's hand was a measuring reed of six cubits and a palm. And he measured the width of the edifice with one reed; likewise, the height with one reed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.

Ezekiel 40:5 Cross References

Psalm 125:2

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people from this time on and forevermore.

Isaiah 26:1

On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; he sets up walls and bulwarks as a safeguard.

Isaiah 60:18

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Ezekiel 41:8

I saw also that the temple was on a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits high.

Ezekiel 42:15

When he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faces east and measured the temple area all around.

Ezekiel 42:20

He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to make a separation between the holy and the common.

Ezekiel 43:13

“These are the dimensions of the altar by long cubits in which each is a cubit and a handbreadth: its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. This shall be the height of the altar:

Zechariah 2:5

For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.”

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)

Revelation 21:12

It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names that are the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites: