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And in front of[a] the chambers was a passageway ten cubits[b] in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit,[c] and their doorways were to the north. And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building. For they[d] were three stories and they had no pillars[e] like[f] the pillars of[g] the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:4 Literally “to the face of”
  2. Ezekiel 42:4 That is, 17.5 feet
  3. Ezekiel 42:4 One cubit of 18–21 inches is problematic; LXX and Syriac read 100 cubits (175 feet) running the length of the building
  4. Ezekiel 42:6 Or “there”
  5. Ezekiel 42:6 Literally “there were not for them pillars”
  6. Ezekiel 42:6 Or “as”
  7. Ezekiel 42:6 Or “for”