Sep. 23rd, 2017

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The height of Ezekiel's Temple.

The main building of Ezekiel's Temple, the House of Sanctuary, consists of two isolated buildings, each of which has its own foundation. The inner building is the "Tabernacle", before the Tabernacle there is a porch. The outer building has two small porches on the west side. In the outer building there are storerooms, where items and food belonging to the Temple are stored.

This temple should stand for many thousands of years. To protect the building of the Tabernacle, there is an external building. The prophecy of Ezekiel does not say that the Tabernacle's building should have a dome, but such an addition would be very useful.

After much thought, we decided to make a dome, similar to the vision from the first chapter of the book of the prophet Ezekiel. This dome rests on 8 wheels in the form of Möbius strips.

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Over against the twenty cubits which were for cubits , and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. (42:3 - KJV)

Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.
(42:3 - NASB)

Over against - the translation of the King James Bible.
Opposite - NASB

In both cases, there is no significant difference when talking about the corridor 20 cubits wide, and then - about the pavement width of 50 cubits.

But at the very end of the verse, when Ezekiel's prophecy speaks of the mutual arrangement of galleries, there is another word in the Masoretic text, not "opposite".

נֶגֶד הָעֶשְׂרִים, אֲשֶׁר לֶחָצֵר הַפְּנִימִי, וְנֶגֶד רִצְפָה, אֲשֶׁר לֶחָצֵר הַחִיצוֹנָה--אַתִּיק אֶל-פְּנֵי-אַתִּיק, בַּשְּׁלִשִׁים.

There can be meaning "face to face", and this is not the same thing as "over against" or "opposite."

"in three stories" - the word "stories" is not in the Masoretic text. There is a word that simply stands for something triple.

Here, in one fell swoop, we cut off a whole layer of the mistakes of the previous researchers trying to portray the Temple with two lines of galleries.

Triple galleries are available in the inner court, they are "face to face" with each other as a military formation when building in three lines along the three sides of the square. Similar three lines of galleries are also on the outer court of the temple complex, and they are also located "face to face".

Galleries. Ezekiel's Temple.

The solution to the puzzle, which was incomprehensible to the previous explorers of Ezekiel's prophecy, riddles about how the lack of pillars may require a narrower third story in the buildings for kohanim, was simple.


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