Ezechiel 41:6
And the side chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three: and they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of the house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of the temple.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Latera autem, latus ad latus, bis triginta tria : et erant eminentia, quæ ingrederentur per parietem domus, in lateribus per circuitum, ut continerent, et non attingerent parietem templi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ πλευρὰ πλευρὸν ἐπὶ πλευρὸν τριάκοντα τρὶς δίς· καὶ διάστημα ἐν τῷ τοίχῳ τοῦ οἴκου ἐν τοῖς πλευροῖς κύκλῳ τοῦ εἶναι τοῖς ἐπιλαμβανομένοις ὁρᾷν, ὅπως τὸ παράπαν μὴ ἅπτωνται τῶν τοίχων τοῦ οἴκου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהַצְּלָעוֹת֩ צֵלָ֨ע אֶל צֵלָ֜ע שָׁל֧וֹשׁ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים פְּעָמִ֗ים וּ֠בָאוֹת בַּקִּ֨יר אֲשֶׁר לַבַּ֧יִת לַצְּלָע֛וֹת סָבִ֥יב סָבִ֖יב לִהְי֣וֹת אֲחוּזִ֑ים וְלֹֽא יִהְי֥וּ אֲחוּזִ֖ים בְּקִ֥יר הַבָּֽיִת
Haydock's commentary
One by another, or one over another: literally, side to side, or side upon side. (Challoner)
The word side is here equivocal, like Hebrew tsela, sometimes denoting the boards, and at other times the apartments round the temple, except on the west, over against the sanctuary, which seems to be the case here. It is true, we shall not easily find sixty-six chambers. But the Hebrew, &c., have only thirty-three. (Calmet)
Villalpand rightly translated anterides, (ver. 5.) but here he substitutes trabes, "beams or thick planks," to make it agree with 3 Kings vi. 6., as if the same temple were meant. He also adopts the Vulgate bis.
Twice. Hebrew pehamim. Yet he afterwards places in his commentary, pedes, "thirty-three feet, that is twenty-two cubits," though feet are never used at all as a measure in Scripture. (Houbigant)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.