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1 Kings 6:8

6 The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

9 So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

10 He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

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BSB
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
KJV
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
WEB
The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
ASV
The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
DARBY
The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor] was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [floor], and out of the middle into the third.
BLB
The doorway for the bottom story [was] on the right side of the house, and by stairs they went up the middle [story], and from the middle to the third.
ÅB
Døren til det mellomste sidekammer[^1] var på husets høyre side, og på en vindeltrapp kom en opp i det mellomste stokkverk, og fra det mellomste opp i det tredje.
OTB
Døren til den nederste sidekammeret var på høyre side av huset; og de gikk opp med en vindeltrapp til den midterste etasjen, og fra den midterste til den tredje.
B1930
Døren til det mellemste sidekammer var på husets høire side, og på en vindeltrapp kom en op i det mellemste stokkverk, og fra det mellemste op i det tredje. / < nemlig i det nederste stokkverk.>

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  • Ezekiel 41:6–7

    The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

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