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Facing a 35-foot-wide section of the inner court and facing the paved area of the outer court were rows of chambers 3 stories high. An interior passageway ran in front of each chamber. It was 17½ feet wide and ran the entire length of the gallery, 175 feet. The doors faced north. All the upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took up more space than they did on the first and second levels.

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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