Ezekiel 40:18
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New International Version (©2011)
It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
which flanked the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The pavement to the side of the gates corresponded to the length of the gates.

NET Bible (©2006)
The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The pavement in the lower courtyard ran alongside the gateways. It was as wide as it was long.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the pavement by the side of the gates corresponding to the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

American King James Version
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

American Standard Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was lower.

Darby Bible Translation
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answering to the length of the gates, namely the lower pavement.

English Revised Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

World English Bible
The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Young's Literal Translation
and the pavement unto the side of the gates over-against the length of the gates is the lower pavement;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

40:1-49 The Vision of the Temple. - Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one of the most difficult portions in all the book of God. When we despair to be satisfied as to any difficulty we meet with, let us bless God that our salvation does not depend upon it, but that things necessary are plain enough; and let us wait till God shall reveal even this unto us. This chapter describes two outward courts of the temple. Whether the personage here mentioned was the Son of God, or a created angel, is not clear. But Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice, to whom we must look with faith in all approaches to God; and he is Salvation in the midst of the earth, Ps 74:12, to be looked unto from all quarters.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the pavement by the sides of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. That is, this pavement, which went along by every gate, and answered the length of them, and what appertained to them, east, west, north, and south, was either lower than the pavement in the inward court, adjoining to this, to which there was an ascent by steps; or the middle part of this pavement rose up in a convex form, and on all sides there was a declivity; by which means all filth was washed away, and it was kept clean, and always fit to walk on. This distinction of a higher and lower pavement, whether on one account or another, may point out; the one, the believer's walk by faith on Christ; and the other, his walk in the ordinances of Christ, and in all becoming conversation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. The higher pavement was level with the entrance of the gates, the lower was on either side of the raised pavement thus formed. Whereas Solomon's temple had an outer court open to alterations and even idolatrous innovations (2Ki 23:11, 12; 1Ch 20:5), in this there was to be no room for human corruptions. Its compass was exactly defined, one hundred cubits; and the fine pavement implied it was to be trodden only by clean feet (compare Isa 35:8).

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The Outer Court
17Then brought he me into the outward court, and, see, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were on the pavement. 18And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. 19Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

Ezekiel 40:17 Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms along the pavement.
Ezekiel 40:19 Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.