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20 [1] **On four sides he measured it** Three thousand cubits by three thousand [cubits], for the rod was six cubits long. This is what the Kalir asserted, “The Beloved will stretch out a line of three thousand cubits limited by three thousand cubits.” This is thirty-six times the original dimensions - for the Temple Mount was [originally] five hundred cubits by five hundred cubits; arrange 3,000 times 3,000 as strips of 500 cubits laid vertically and horizontally [forming a solid square], and you will have thirty-six squares of 500 cubits by 500 cubits. [3,000 x 3,000 = 9,000,000. 500 x 500 = 250,000. 9, 000,000 divided by 250,000 = 36.] Therefore, the poet states: “And thirty-six as it was multiplied.”
[2] **On four sides he measured it: its wall all around** [i.e., the wall] of the Temple Mount.
[3] **around...five hundred** in length and in width. This was the wall that encompassed the entire mountain.
[4] **to separate** the people between the holy which was inside, and the profane which was outside. I found the completion of every measure. (This does not appear in other editions.)
Version: The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Source: https://www.nli.org.il/en/items/NNL_ALEPH990019164710205171/NLI
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