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Ezekiel 41:5

3 And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.

4 Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

6 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.

7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

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BSB
Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
KJV
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
WEB
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
ASV
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
DARBY
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
BLB
And he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of each side chamber [was] four cubits, all around the temple on every side.
ÅB
Så målte han husets vegg: den var seks alen, og sidekammernes bredde: den var fire alen, rundt omkring hele huset.
OTB
Han målte tempelmuren, som var seks alen tykk, og siderommene, som var fire alen brede rundt hele tempelet.
B1930
Så målte han husets vegg: den var seks alen, og sidekammernes bredde: den var fire alen, rundt omkring hele huset.

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  • 1 Kings 6:5–6

    Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

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  • Ezekiel 42:3–14

    Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.

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  • Ezekiel 41:6–9

    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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