Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

Ezekiel 41:7

The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story.

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Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Were higher than these

Than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building

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Were higher than these

Ezekiel 41:7
The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story.

Than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building

Ezekiel 42:6
For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

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Ezekiel 40:7
The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.