Tanach
Ezra 6:3-4 עזרא ו׳:ג׳-ד׳
Part of: Chapter 6
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בִּשְׁנַת חֲדָה לְכוֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא כּוֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא שָׂם טְעֵם בֵּית־אֱלָהָא בִֽירוּשְׁלֶם בַּיְתָא יִתְבְּנֵא אֲתַר דִּֽי־דָבְחִין דִּבְחִין וְאֻשּׁוֹהִי מְסֽוֹבְלִין רוּמֵהּ אַמִּין שִׁתִּין פְּתָיֵהּ אַמִּין שִׁתִּֽין׃
"In the first year of King Koresh, King Koresh ordered [concerning] the house of G-d in Jerusalem: A house shall be built, a place where offerings are sacrificed. And its walls shall be founded; its height, sixty cubits, and its breadth, sixty cubits.
"In the first year of King Koresh, King Koresh ordered [concerning] the house of G-d in Jerusalem: A house shall be built, a place where offerings are sacrificed. And its walls shall be founded; its height, sixty cubits, and its breadth, sixty cubits.
Rashi
אתר די דבחין. שהוא מקום שזובחים שם זבח:
a place where they offer up sacrifices which is a place where they offer up sacrifices.
ואושוהי מסובלין. וכותליו יהיו מיוסדין, כמו ואושיא יחיטו (לעיל):
and its walls should be founded Aram. וְאֻשּׁוֹהִי. And its walls should be founded, like (4:12): “and its walls (וְאֻשַּׁיָא) they have joined.”
רומיה אמין שתין. רום הבית ששים אמה וששים אמה רחבו:
its height sixty cubits the height of the House was sixty cubits, and sixty cubits was its width.
נִדְבָּכִין דִּי־אֶבֶן גְּלָל תְּלָתָא וְנִדְבָּךְ דִּי־אָע חֲדַת וְנִפְקְתָא מִן־בֵּית מַלְכָּא תִּתְיְהִֽב׃ {ס}
Three walls of marble and one wall of new wood [(on the inside, as in Solomon's Temple)], the expenses to be covered by the house of the king.
Three walls of marble and one wall of new wood [(on the inside, as in Solomon's Temple)], the expenses to be covered by the house of the king.
Rashi
נדבכין. ל' כתלים וקירות הכתלים היו של אבן גלל, גלל מרמר"א בלע"ז:
rows Aram. נִדְבָּכִין, an expression for walls. The walls were of marble. marble Aram. גְּלָל (marmre in Old French).
ונדבך. וכותל של עץ חדש מבפנים כענין בנין הבית אשר בנה שלמה:
and a row and a wall of new wood from within, in the manner of the building of the Temple that Solomon built.
ונפקתא. והוצאה לצורך הבית ולשאר דברים אשר לבית תנתן להם מבית המלך:
and the expenditures And the expenditures for the needs of the House and for the other matters pertaining to the House shall be given them from the royal palace.
בית אלהא בירושלים. בבית אלהים בירושלים מה יהא עליו הבית יבנה:
the House of God in Jerusalem regarding the House of God in Jerusalem; what should be with it? “The House should be built.”