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There was 35 feet of the Temple courtyard between this building and the Temple. On the other side, this building faced the stone pavement of the outer courtyard. The building had rooms and balconies on three stories. There was a hallway on the north side of the rooms. It was 17½ feet wide and 175 feet long. Doors led into the rooms from this hallway. The top rooms were narrower. This was because the balconies took more space from them. The rooms on the first and second stories of the building were wider.

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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