American Standard Version
"Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. "
— Ezekiel 42:5, American Standard Version
“Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.”
“Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.”
“Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.”
“Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts, and from the midst of the building.”
“And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.”
“Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.”
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Over against the twentycubitswhich belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.