en_tn/ezk/40/17.md

# General Information:

There were two walls surrounding the temple. The outer wall surrounded the outer courtyard, and within that, the inner wall surrounded the inner courtyard. The inner courtyard was higher than the outer courtyard. Each wall had gates on the east, north, and south sides.

# the man brought me to the outer courtyard of the temple

"The man brought me from outside the temple area into the outer courtyard of the temple"

# outer courtyard

See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 10:5](../10/03.md).

# Behold

The word "Behold" here indicates that Ezekiel saw something interesting.

# pavement

a flat floor that is made out of rocks

# with thirty rooms next to the pavement

"and there were 30 rooms all around the pavement" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# went up to

"went all the way to"

# the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner gate

The lower gate was on the wall of the outer courtyard, and the inner gate was on the wall of the inner courtyard. AT: "the front of the outer gate to the front of the inner gate"

# one hundred cubits

about 54 meters (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bdistance]])

# cubits

See how you translated these "long" cubits in [Ezekiel 40:05](./05.md).

# the same on the north side

"it was the same on the north side" or "on the north side, the distance from the outer gate to the inner gate was also one hundred cubits"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/courtyard]]