⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. ⁷ And ^(A)there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, ^(B)fifty cubits long. ⁸ For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ^(C)the nave^[a] were ^(D)a hundred cubits long.