Ezekiel 40:8
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New International Version (©2011)
Then he measured the portico of the gateway;

New Living Translation (©2007)
He also measured the entry room of the gateway.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Next he measured the portico of the gate;

International Standard Version (©2012)
Next, he measured the vestibule of the gate facing away from the Temple entrance at one reed.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He also measured the entrance hall of the gateway.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He measured also the porch of the inside gate, one rod.

American King James Version
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

American Standard Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, was one reed.

Darby Bible Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.

English Revised Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Webster's Bible Translation
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

World English Bible
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the porch of the gate from within one reed,

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 8, 9. - The divergent measurements of this porch, which are given in these verses, led the LXX. and the Vulgate to reject ver. 8 as spurious, and it is certainly wanting in some Hebrew manuscripts. Hitzig, Ewald, and Smend have accordingly expunged it from the text - an altogether unnecessary proceeding. The seeming discrepancy may be removed by supposing either, with Kliefoth, that ver. 8 furnishes the measurement of the porch from east to west, and ver. 9 its measurement from north to south, with the measurements in addition of the posts (אֵלִים, from אַיִל, "a ram," hence anything curved or twisted), i.e. pillars or jambs; or, with Keil, that ver. 8 states the depth from east to west, and ver. 9 the length from north to south. The "posts," which were sixty cubits high (ver. 14), were two cubits square at the base.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He measured also the porch of the gate within,

one reed. This was either the measure of the breadth of the porch between the opposite chambers on both sides; or rather of the length of that space, which was between the third little chamber and the last gate; and such a space must be supposed to be between the first gate and the first little chamber, which space were three yards and a half; which shows how spacious the churches of Christ will be, and how exactly measured.

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The East Gate
…7And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. …

Ezekiel 40:7 The alcoves for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.
Ezekiel 40:9 it was eight cubits deep and its jambs were two cubits thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.