⁵ When he measured the wall of the temple, it was nine feet, and the side chambers that went all the way around the temple were six feet. ⁶ Now these side chambers adjoined each other, thirty chambers in three stories. The side chambers had a ledge in the temple wall all the way around to serve as supports, but these supports were not inserted into the temple wall itself. ⁷ A wide ramp ascended stage by stage to the side chambers all the way around the temple. In this way, the ascent stage by stage all around the temple added to the temple’s width. One ascended from the foundation to the top by way of the middle story. ⁸ Then I looked at the temple: Its roof all around rested on the side chambers. Each raised section was ten and a half feet, and the indentations between them were nine feet.^{[a] 9} The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was seven and a half feet. The space left free between the temple’s side chambers and ¹⁰ the other chambers was thirty feet wide all the way around the temple. ¹¹ There were two entrances from the side chambers to the free space, one facing north, the other facing south. And the width of the place that was left free was seven and a half feet all the way around.