Ezekiel 42:5
3 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.
4 In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
6 For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
7 An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
- KJV
- Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
- WEB
- Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building.
- ASV
- Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
- DARBY
- And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
- BLB
- And the upper chambers [were] shorter, for the galleries took away from them, on the lower and middle of the building.
- ÅB
- Og de øverste kammer var mindre enn de andre; for svalgangene tok mere rom fra dem enn fra de nederste og de midterste i bygningen;
- OTB
- De øvre kamrene var smalere enn de nedenfor, da galleriene tok mer plass fra dem enn fra de nedre og midtre nivåene.
- B1930
- Og de øverste kammer var mindre enn de andre; for svalgangene tok mere rum fra dem enn fra de nederste og de midterste i bygningen;
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Ezekiel 41:7
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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