Ezekiel 45:2

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“Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.”

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BSBPD

“Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in length by five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“There is of this for the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred, square, round about; and fifty cubits of suburb <FI>is<Fi> to it round about.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 45:2 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ezekiel 27:28The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
  2. Ezekiel 42:15Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
  3. Ezekiel 42:16With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.
  4. Ezekiel 42:20So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
  5. Ezekiel 43:21Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

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