Ezekiel 40:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.

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  • Ezek 42:20 : 20 He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.
  • Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 (For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
  • Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.
  • Rev 21:12 : 12 She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

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  • Ezek 40:6-13
    8 verses
    85%

    6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

    7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

    8 And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

    9 Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

    10 And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.

    11 And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

    12 And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

    13 And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

  • Ezek 41:1-5
    5 verses
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    1 And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.

    2 And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

    3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

    4 And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

    5 Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

  • Ezek 40:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

    3 He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.

    4 And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

  • Ezek 41:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8 And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

    9 The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.

    10 And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

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    15 And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

    16 He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    17 And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    18 And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    19 And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    20 He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

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    47 And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.

    48 Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

    49 The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

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    12 And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.

    13 And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;

    14 And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide.

    15 And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;

  • Rev 21:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15 And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.

    16 And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.

    17 And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

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    35 And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;

    36 Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • 32 And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

  • Zech 2:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

    2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.

  • 17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

  • 17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

  • 1 And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.

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    27 And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.

    28 Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;

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    19 Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,

    20 And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.

  • 23 And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.

  • 6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

  • 2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.