And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

And before the face of the gate which reached even to the face of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits.

And from the front of the gate of the entrance unto the front of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.

And before the face of the gate, which extended even to the face of the vestibule of the gate of the interior, there were fifty cubits.

The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:
Thickness of boundary wall 6 cubits Hall of the entrance 5 cubits Three guard-chambers (6 cubits) 18 cubits Spaces between guard-chambers 10 cubits Hall of the porch 5 cubits The porch 6 cubits Total 50 cubits Ezekiel 40:16
The "narrow" (closed and (?)latticed "windows" lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the "post" stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.

Fifty cubits - The length of the building. See MMMMM in the plan.

And from the face of the gate of the entrance,.... That is, from the outward gate as you went into the porch, and was to the east, so called from people's passing and repassing (b) in it; so Jarchi takes it to be the eastern gate; the Targum calls it the middle gate:
unto the face of the porch of the inner gate; which opened at the other end of the porch, into the outward court, and was to the west: from gate to gate
were fifty cubits; as he measured the breadth of the porch before, Ezekiel 40:13, here the length; there were three chambers six cubits long, which made eighteen; and between each chamber were five cubits, which were ten cubits; and the space between the chambers and the gates at each end were six cubits each; Ezekiel 40:8, which make twelve more; and then allow ten cubits for the thickness of both walls of each gate, and there will be fifty cubits, or twenty nine yards and half a foot.
(b) Vid. R. Song. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 9. 1.

And - This verse seems to sum up all the dimensions; this gate, its porch, and thickness of its walls, and so sum the cubits, six in the thickness of the outer wall, eighteen in the three chambers, twenty in the spaces between the chambers, and six cubits in the thickness in the inner wall of the porch.