⁵ And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits,^[a] and the width of the side room as four cubits^[b] all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall.^{[c] 6} And the side rooms were side by side^[d] in three stories and a total of thirty rooms,^[e] and there were offsets^[f] in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, all the way around^[g] to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple. ⁷ And each level widened, and it went around^[h] upward^[i] to the side rooms for the structure that surrounds^[j] the temple upward^[k] all the way around,^[l] therefore the width increased to the temple upward,^[m] and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story.

⁸ And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around^[n] the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.^{[o] 9} The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits,^[p] and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple ¹⁰ and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits^[q] all around the temple, all the way around^[r] it. ¹¹ And the doorway of the side room faced^[s] the open area; one doorway faced^[t] the north,^[u] and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubits^[v] all around.^[w]