For they were in (A)three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; for that reason the upper chambers were [a]set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones. As for the (B)outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a (C)hundred cubits.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:6 Or reduced

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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