Ezekiel 40:13

The gate building was 25 cubits across, i.e. from the outside N. to the outside S. The measurement is made from roof to roof of the guardrooms. LXX. read or substituted "wall" for roof. The meaning is clear. The measurement inside was three cubits less, viz. passage 10, a guardroom on each side 6 + 6, in all 22, leaving for each back wall 1½ cubits, Ezekiel 40:21; Ezekiel 40:25; Ezekiel 40:29.

door against door Or, opposite todoor. Possibly each guardroom on both sides of the gateway had a door in the back wall opening into the outer court. Others less naturally suggest three doors of the gate lengthways, viz. that before first threshold, that before inner threshold, and the exit out of the porch.