The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Eleven. 3 Kings vi., says ten. The exact breadth was ten and a half, (Villalpand; Tirinus) or what the pavement covered is there specified according to some. Roman Septuagint has "twelve. "But the edition of Basil reads more correctly, ten. (Calmet)
Yet both ten and eleven may be right, if this temple be different. (Haydock)
Eight. Hebrew seems corrupt, a being substituted for a. "They mounted by ten steps "as the Septuagint read. Aquila has eleven; Symmachus eight.
Pillars of brass, 3 Kings vii. 15. (Calmet)
As they are not measured, they were like Solomon's. (Worthington)