⁸ The entrance for the lowest^[a] story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

⁶ And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, ^(A)thirty in each story. There were offsets^[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, ^(B)so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. ⁷ And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and ^(C)so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.