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One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot[a] width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other. Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1⁄2 feet[b] wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex,[c] and all the doors faced north. Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.

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Footnotes

  1. 42:3 Hebrew 20[-cubit] [10.6-meter].
  2. 42:4a Hebrew 10 cubits [5.3 meters].
  3. 42:4b As in Greek and Syriac versions, which read Its length was 100 cubits [53 meters]; Hebrew reads and a passage 1 cubit [21 inches or 53 centimeters] wide.

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