Quotes about Measurements
Then he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.
- Ezekiel 40:24
Next he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others.
- Ezekiel 40:28
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:33
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.
- Ezekiel 40:48
Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
- Ezekiel 41:4
Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:12
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- Ezekiel 43:13
Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
- Ezekiel 45:2
and will have these measurements: 4,500 cubits on the north side, 4,500 cubits on the south side, 4,500 cubits on the east side, and 4,500 cubits on the west side.
- Ezekiel 48:16
The pastureland of the city will extend 250 cubits to the north, 250 cubits to the south, 250 cubits to the east, and 250 cubits to the west.
- Ezekiel 48:17
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
- George Bernard Shaw
Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- Madeleine L'Engle