Ezekiel 40:38 “There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner…”

Ezekiel 40:38

There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

World English Bible

A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.

American Standard Version

And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.

Geneva Bible 1599

And euery chamber, and the entrie thereof was vnder the postes of the gates: there they washed the burnt offring.

Darby Translation

And there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the gates; there they rinsed the burnt-offering.

Young's Literal Translation

And the chamber and its opening [is] by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.

Bible in Basic English

And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.

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Cross references

“the chambers”

Ezekiel 40:12 1 Kings 6:8 Ezekiel 41:10 Ezekiel 41:11

Ezekiel 40:12 · BSB

In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.

1 Kings 6:8 · BSB

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

Ezekiel 41:10 · BSB

and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

Ezekiel 41:11 · BSB

The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.

“where”

Leviticus 1:9 Leviticus 8:21 Hebrews 10:22

Leviticus 1:9 · BSB

The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Leviticus 8:21 · BSB

He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Hebrews 10:22 · BSB

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Also

2 Chronicles 4:6 Ezekiel 42:13 Ezekiel 40:17

2 Chronicles 4:6 · BSB

He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.

Ezekiel 42:13 · BSB

Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offer…

Ezekiel 40:17 · BSB

Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

37Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees on each side. Eight steps led up to it.

39Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.

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