⁴ And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long,^[a] and their doors were on the north. ⁵ Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries^[b] took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building. ⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer^[c] court; hence the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.