Ezekiel 42:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Built in rows at three different levels, they stood between the twenty cubits of the inner court and the pavement of the outer court. 4 In front of the chambers was a walkway ten cubits wide on the inside of a wall one cubit wide. The doorways faced north. 5 [a]The upper chambers were shorter because they lost space to the lower and middle tiers of the building.
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- 42:5–6 The three rows of identical chambers, on different ground levels, necessarily had roofs on correspondingly different levels.
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