Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement, which was for the utter court, was chamber against chamber in three rows.

And before the chambers was a gallery of ten cubits wide, and within was a way of one cubit, and their doors toward the North.

Now the chambers above were narrower: for those chambers seemed to eat up these, to wit, the lower, and those that were in the midst of the building.

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Both in the section twenty cubits[a] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery(A) faced gallery at the three levels.(B) In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits[b] long.[c] Their doors were on the north.(C) Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:3 That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters
  2. Ezekiel 42:4 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew and one cubit
  3. Ezekiel 42:4 That is, about 18 feet wide and 175 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 53 meters long