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For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; therefore more space was taken away than from the lower and the middle floors, in comparison with the ground. A wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, was 50 cubits in length. For the chambers that were toward the outer court were 50 cubits long while those facing the Temple were 100 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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