Ezekiel 40:31
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New International Version (©2011)
Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its jambs, and eight steps led up to it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The entry room to the south gateway faced into the outer courtyard. It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight steps leading to its entrance.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Its portico faced the outer court, and its pilasters were decorated with palm trees. Its stairway had eight steps.

International Standard Version (©2012)
leading to the outer courtyard. Palm tree ornaments were engraved on its side pillars. The stairway leading to it contained eight steps.

NET Bible (©2006)
Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The entrance halls faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to each gateway.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And its arches were toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

American King James Version
And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were on the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

American Standard Version
And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the porch thereof to the outward court, and the palm trees thereof in the front: and there were eight steps to go up to It.

Darby Bible Translation
And its projections were toward the outer court; and there were palm-trees upon its posts: and its ascent was by eight steps.

English Revised Version
And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

Webster's Bible Translation
And its arches were towards the outer court; and palm-trees were upon its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

World English Bible
The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

Young's Literal Translation
and its arches are unto the outer court, and palm-trees are unto its posts, and eight steps are its ascent.

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 arches thereof were toward the outward court,.... And so not within the gate of the inward court, but on the outside of it, towards the outward court, at the front of the gate as you went in:

and palm trees were upon the posts thereof; of the gate, or of these arches or porticos; signifying that none should enter here but righteous persons; this is the gate of the righteous, Psalm 118:19; see Gill on Ezekiel 40:16;

and the going up to it had eight steps; one more than the ascent to the outward gates; some say eight more, and make these to be fifteen, answerable to the fifteen steps by which the Levites went up from the court of the women to the court of Israel (n), and sung upon them the fifteen songs of degrees, mentioned in the Psalms: but here are only eight; and denote the gradual progress of believers in faith and holiness; and that the nearer they come to the holy of holies, the greater their proficiency should be, and more advances made in the knowledge of divine things.

(n) Misna Succa, c. 5. sect. 4. Lipman. Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 24.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

31. eight steps—The outer porch had only seven (Eze 40:26).

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The Gates of the Inner Court
…30And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were on the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. 32And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. …

Ezekiel 40:16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.
Ezekiel 40:22 Its openings, its portico and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.
Ezekiel 40:26 Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side.
Ezekiel 40:49 The portico was twenty cubits wide, and twelve cubits from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs, and there were pillars on each side of the jambs.