What is the context?
After the courts and altar area, the guide brings Ezekiel to the temple’s covered entrance. He measures its side pillars, gateway and sidewalls.
The BSB gives this entrance as twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, reached by ten steps. Columns stand beside the pillars on each side. This short description marks the transition from the courts to the sanctuary rooms measured in the next chapter.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Cambridge discusses the different measurements found in translations of these verses and favors twelve cubits and ten steps, following the Greek text. Those are also the measurements printed in the BSB.
The main movement is clear across those differences: Ezekiel has reached the entrance to the temple itself.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.