Ezekiel 42:5
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.
Ezekiel 41:7
The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.
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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 rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.
Than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building
Ezekiel 42:6
For they were arranged in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories.
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Ezekiel 40:7
Each recess was about 10 feet long and 10 feet deep, and there was a space of 8¾ feet between the recesses. The inner threshold of the gate on the temple side next to the gate’s portico was about 10 feet.