Ezekiel 40:5World English Bible British Edition
Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits 40:5 A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres. A handbreadth is about 4.3 inches or 11 centimetres, so the long cubit described here would be about 22.3 inches or 57 centimetres long. Thus, a 6 long cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards 26.6 inches or about 3.42 metres long. long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.