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[a]The upper chambers were shorter because they lost space to the lower and middle tiers of the building. Because they were in three tiers, they did not have foundations like the court, but were set back from the lower and middle levels from the ground up. The outside walls ran parallel to the chambers along the outer court, a length of fifty cubits.

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  1. 42:5–6 The three rows of identical chambers, on different ground levels, necessarily had roofs on correspondingly different levels.