Ezekiel 40:38

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

37Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees on each side. Eight steps led up to it.

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.

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:13The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

1 Kings 6:8The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

Ezekiel 40:12In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.

Ezekiel 41:10and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

Hebrews 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 40:28-39

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. 28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; 29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty… Read the whole commentary →

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