After, he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of every chamber four cubits round about the house, on every side.

And the chambers were chamber upon chamber, three and thirty foot high, and they entered into the wall made for the chambers which was round about the house, that the posts might be fastened therein, and not be fastened in the wall of the house.

And it was large, and went round mounting upward to the chambers: for the stairs of the house was mounting upward, round about the house: therefore the house was larger upward: so they went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

I saw also the house high round about: the foundations of the chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

The thickness of the wall which was for the chamber without, was five cubits, and that which remained, was the place of the chambers that were within.

10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the House on every side.

11 And the doors of the chambers were toward the place that remained, one door toward the North, and another door toward the South, and the breadth of the place that remained, was five cubits round about.

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Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits[a] wide. The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty(A) on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.(B) The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway(C) went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits. The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple 10 and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:5 That is, about 7 feet or about 2.1 meters