A moment in scripture
Ezekiel 42:16
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
The surrounding passage
- Ezekiel 42:14
When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
- Ezekiel 42:15
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
- Ezekiel 42:17
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
- Ezekiel 42:18
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.