ייִדישער מחשבֿה אויף יחזקאל 40:20

I¹In Yechezkel’s vision (see Yechezkel 40:20), the angel proceeded from the eastern gate to the northern gate. Hence, Tosafos Yom Tov follows that pattern in this text. already wrote above²Sec. 1. that the northern and southern walls of the outer courtyard were 317 cubits long. More details concerning these walls are discussed in sec. 74. It is logical to assume that these walls were a measuring rod (i.e. 6 cubits) thick, because the dimensions of this gateway are the same as the dimensions of the first gateway. The text relates that the first gateway’s threshold covered the thickness of the wall, and was 6 cubits thick.

All the above is summarized by the verses,²Yechezkel 40:20-22. “He measured the length and the width of the gateway that faced north…. It had three cells on one side and three on the other…. Its vestibule was the same measure of the first gateway, 50 cubits high. The width [from the edge of the roof of the cell to the edge of the roof of the second cell] was 25 cubits. Its windows, its vestibule, and its palm-like coronets were the same as those of the gate that faced east.”