Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and the front thereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate was inward.

Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

and he measureth the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within,

Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

And he measured the vestibule of the gate as eight cubits, and its front as two cubits. But the vestibule of the gate was inside.

The porch is now measured from north to south in "wide." "The breadth of the entry of the gate" was "ten cubits," made up of the "eight cubits," with "a cubit" for "a post" or pillar on each side Ezekiel 40:11.
Posts - A projection like a ram's horn; in architecture, a column projecting from the wall with its base, shaft, and capital, or it may be the "base" only Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:49. Here "post" represents the lower part of the column. and the dimensions given are those of the section of the base.

The porch of the gate - See account of the gates in the plan.

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits,.... This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman (z); since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over:
and the posts thereof two cubits; these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in Ezekiel 40:11 what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on Ezekiel 40:14,
and the porch of the gate was inward; this was the porch of the inward gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the gate.
(z) Ibid. (Lipman. Tzaurath Beth Hamikdash), sect. 6.

posts--projecting column-faced fronts of the sides of the doorway, opposite to one another.

The porch - Probably another porch, or another gate distinct from that, Ezekiel 40:6. The posts - These were half columns, that from the floor to the height of the wall jetted out, as if one half of the column were in the wall, and the other without, and the protuberance of this half column, was one cubit.