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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. The chambers facing the outer court were fifty cubits long; thus the wall along the nave was a hundred cubits.

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The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.

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