Ezekiel 42:7
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New International Version (©2011)
There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.

New Living Translation (©2007)
There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87-1/2 feet long.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87 1/2 feet long.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The outer wall by the side of the chambers toward the outer court and facing the chambers was 50 cubits long.

NET Bible (©2006)
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There was a wall which ran parallel to the side rooms and the outer courtyard. It ran alongside the side rooms for 871/2 feet.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the wall that was outside, opposite the chambers, toward the outer court at the front of the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.

American King James Version
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

American Standard Version
And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.

Darby Bible Translation
And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:

English Revised Version
And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.

World English Bible
The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
As to the wall that is at the outside, over-against the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length is fifty cubits;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

42:1-20 In this chapter are described the priests' chambers, their use, and the dimensions of the holy mount on which the temple stood. These chambers were many. Jesus said, In my Father's house are many mansions: in his house on earth there are many; multitudes, by faith, are lodging in his sanctuary, and yet there is room. These chambers, though private, were near the temple. Our religious services in our chambers, must prepare for public devotions, and further us in improving them, as our opportunities are.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - The wall; or, fence - the Hebrew term being not חֹמָה, as in Ezekiel 40:5, or קִיר, as in Ezekiel 41:5, both of which signify the wall of a city or a building, but גָדֵר (or גֶדֶר, as in ver. 10), which means a fence or hedge, as in Ezekiel 13:5 - without, over against - or, by the side of (Revised Version) - the chambers, toward the outer court, cannot have been a rampart along the north side of-the chambers, since this was a hundred cubits long, but must have been a wall upon the side of the chambers (east or west) fencing off the outer court from the passage which led down by the side of the chambers. That this fence was on the east side is rendered probable by the circumstance that the sacrificial kitchen lay upon the west (see Ezekiel 46:19, 20), and by the statements which follow in vers. 8 and 9. The fence was doubtless intended to screen the side windows of the lower chambers from public gaze, since these were to be occupied as robing and disrobing rooms for the priests who should officiate in the temple (see ver. 14; and Ezekiel 44:19).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the wall that was without over against the chambers,.... This wall separated and distinguished the chambers from the outward court, as well as was a protection of them; and signifies the grace and power of God, which separates his true churches from the world, and is the security of them; See Gill on Ezekiel 11:5.

this was towards the utter court, on the fore part of the chambers; or front of them, which seems to be to the north of them; since their doors were towards the north, Ezekiel 42:4, though Cocceius makes it to be to the west, which better agrees with what follows:

the length thereof was fifty cubits; which answers to the breadth of the chambers, Ezekiel 42:2 and what is called length here, with respect to the wall, is called the breadth with respect to the chambers. The wall of divine protection is equal to the length and breadth, and even the whole compass, of the churches of Christ.

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Chambers for the Priests
…6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, see, before the temple were an hundred cubits. …

Ezekiel 42:10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms
Ezekiel 42:12 were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.