The Side Chambers on the Wall

⁵ Next, he measured the wall of the ^[a]temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side. ^6 (A)The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on ^[b]ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but ^(B)not fastened to the wall of the temple. ⁷ As one went up from story to story, the side chambers ^(C)became wider all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one. ⁸ I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, ^(D)a full rod, that is, six cubits high. ⁹ The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the ^[c]temple. ¹⁰ And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. ¹¹ The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace, one door toward the north and another toward the south; and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around.