Ezekiel 48:30
New Revised Standard Version
These shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure,

New American Bible
These are the exits from the city: On the north side, measuring forty-five hundred cubits—

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.

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And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.

the goings.

Ezekiel 48:16,32-35 And these are the measures thereof: on the north side four thousand and five hundred: and on the south side four thousand and five hundred: and on the east side four thousand and five hundred: and on the west side four thousand and five hundred. . . .

Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

four.

Ezekiel 48:15 But the five thousand that remain in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city for dwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

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Ezekiel 42:16 And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

.) The large dimensions of the city and land were perhaps intended to intimate the extensive and glorious propagation of the gospel in the times predicted; and the land was not called Canaan, not the city Jerusalem, probably because they were figurative of spiritual blessings to the church and to Israel.

Context
The City Gates and Dimensions
30And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.31And the gates of the city according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates on the north side, the gate of Ruben one, the gate of Juda one, the gate of Levi one.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 42:11
And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward the north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the going in to them, and their fashions, and their doors were alike.

Ezekiel 45:6
And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, according to the separation of the sanctuary, for the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 48:32
And at the east side, four thousand and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan one.

Ezekiel 48:29
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