Ezekiel 40:38

Read: and a chamber, and the entry thereof (was) in the porch of the gate. The plur. gatescan hardly be right. It is not probable that slaughtering took place at more than one gate. LXX. reads gate(sing.) and also porchfor posts, cf. Ezekiel 40:37. The chamber whose entry was from the porch must have been contiguous to the porch, but is not further described.

where they washed Not the usual word Leviticus 1:9. Both words Isaiah 4:4; 2 Chronicles 4:6. LXX. thinks here of a drain or runnel for carrying off the sacrificial blood.