Ezekiel 40:38
New International Version
A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings were washed.

New Living Translation
A door led from the entry room of one of the inner gateways into a side room, where the meat for sacrifices was washed.

English Standard Version
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

Berean Standard Bible
There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.

King James Bible
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

New King James Version
There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, where they washed the burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

NASB 1995
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

NASB 1977
And a chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

Amplified Bible
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars of the gates; there the burnt offering was to be washed.

Christian Standard Bible
There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico. The burnt offering was to be washed there.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There was a chamber whose door opened into the portico of the gate. The burnt offering was to be washed there.

American Standard Version
And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And there was a chamber door in the porches of the gate, and there they lay burning peace offerings

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Its chambers and its door-ways, and its porches at the second gate served as a drain,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

English Revised Version
And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There was a room with a door that opened toward the entrance hall of the gateway. This is the room where the priests washed the animals for the burnt offerings.

Good News Translation
In the outer courtyard there was an annex attached to the inner gateway on the north side. It opened into the entrance room that faced the courtyard, and there they washed the carcasses of the animals to be burned whole as sacrifices.

International Standard Version
There was a chamber with a doorway by the side pillars next to the gate where they prepare the burnt offerings.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.

Literal Standard Version
And the chamber and its opening [is] by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.

Majority Standard Bible
There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.

New American Bible
There was a chamber opening off the vestibule of the gate where burnt offerings were washed.

NET Bible
There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

New Revised Standard Version
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

New Heart English Bible
And a chamber with its door was by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the chambers and its entries were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering.

World English Bible
A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.

Young's Literal Translation
And the chamber and its opening is by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.

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Context
Eight Tables for Sacrifices
38There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed. 39Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.…

Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:12
The plans contained everything David had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God and of the dedicated things,

2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.

Nehemiah 13:5
and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.

Nehemiah 13:9
Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.

Jeremiah 35:4
and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

Jeremiah 36:10
From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.

Ezekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,


Treasury of Scripture

And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

the chambers

Ezekiel 40:12
The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

Ezekiel 41:10,11
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side…

1 Kings 6:8
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

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Ezekiel 40
1. The time, manner, and end of the vision of the city and temple
6. The description of the east gate of the outer court
20. of the north gate
24. of the south gate
27. of the south gate of the inner court
32. of the east gate
35. and of the north gate
39. Eight tables
44. The chambers
48. The porch of the house














(38) And the chambers and the entries thereof.--These words in the original are in the singular, and have no article. The word for chamber is an entirely different one from that used in the former part of the chapter (Ezekiel 40:10; Ezekiel 40:12-13). The verse should be translated, "And a cell with its door by the posts of the gates; there they washed the burnt offering." All the arrangements for sacrificing are here described in connection with the north gate, although in Ezekiel 46:2 it is said that at certain festivals the prince shall enter by the east gate, and there worship while the priests prepare his offerings. In the law it was required (Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 6:25; Leviticus 7:2) that all sacrifices should be slain in the court at the north side of the altar. Here the slaying is done at the north gate, but within the outer court. The reason appears to be that in the law each offerer was to slay his own victim, but here (Ezekiel 44:11) the sacrifice is to be slain by the Levites, and it was therefore desirable that it should be done in the presence of the offerer and the people, i.e., in the outer court. There was also a further reason in the convenience of disposing of the flesh of the victims. Only the whole burnt offerings and the fat and the kidneys of the others required to be taken to the altar in the inner court; while all the flesh of the sin offerings and the priests' portion of the peace offerings was to be carried to the priests' cooking place (F, Plan II.) to which a walk led from this point. The rest of the flesh of the peace offerings was taken to the people's cooking places (E) in the corners of the outer court. . . . Verses 38-43. - The arrangements for sacrifice. Three things demand attention - the cells for washing, the tables for slaughtering, and the hooks. Verse 38. - The chambers. As the verse explains, these were different from the guard-rooms in the gates (vers. 7, 21) and the chambers on the pavement (ver. 17), although the same Hebrew word is employed to designate the latter. The cells under consideration were expressly designed for washing "the inwards and the legs" of the victims brought for sacrifice (Leviticus 1:9). Whether such a cell stood at each of the three gates, as the plural seems to indicate, although described only in connection with the north (Keil, Kliefoth, Plumptre), or merely at one gate, and that the north - because, according to the Law (Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 7:2), on the north side of the altar burnt, sin, and trespass offerings were to be killed (Havernick, Hengstenberg) - or the east, which is alluded to in vet, s. 39, 40 (Hitzig, Ewald, Smend), is controverted, though the former view seems the preferable, seeing that, according to Ezekiel 46:1, 2, the priests were to prepare burnt offerings and peace offerings for the prince at the posts of the east gate. The situation of the cells is stated to have been by (or, beside) the posts of (i.e. at) the gates (see on ver. 14), but on which side of the gates, whether near the right or left pillar, no information is furnished. Keil and Kliefoth place those at the south and north gates on the west side; that at the east gate Keil locates on its north side, Kliefoth placing one in the side wall at each side of the gate.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
There was a chamber
וְלִשְׁכָּ֣ה (wə·liš·kāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3957: Room, chamber, hall, cell

with a doorway
וּפִתְחָ֔הּ (ū·p̄iṯ·ḥāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6607: An opening, door, entrance way

by the portico
בְּאֵילִ֖ים (bə·’ê·lîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 352: Strength, strong, a chief, a ram, a pilaster, an oak, strong tree

in each of the inner gateways.
הַשְּׁעָרִ֑ים (haš·šə·‘ā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate

There
שָׁ֖ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

the burnt offering
הָעֹלָֽה׃ (hā·‘ō·lāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering

was to be washed.
יָדִ֥יחוּ (yā·ḏî·ḥū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1740: To rinse, cleanse away by rinsing or washing


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