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In front of the rooms on the inside of the courtyard was a walkway[a] ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits long.[b] The entrances of the rooms faced north.[c]

The upper rooms were narrower, because the balconies took more space away from them than from the building’s bottom and middle floors. These rooms were arranged in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars in the courtyards, so as you went up from ground level, the upper story had to be set back more than the lower and middle ones.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:4 Feature R on the diagram
  2. Ezekiel 42:4 One hundred cubits is the reading of the Greek and Syriac. The Hebrew reads one cubit.
  3. Ezekiel 42:4 This apparently refers to the rooms on the south side of the northern courtyard.
  4. Ezekiel 42:6 The meaning of this verse is uncertain.