Ezekiel 42:5

And the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building.

Ezekiel 41:7

And there was a widening, and a winding upwards and upwards to the side chambers. For the winding around of the house went upward and upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went upward, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle 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
And there was a widening, and a winding upwards and upwards to the side chambers. For the winding around of the house went upward and upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went upward, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle story.

Than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building

Ezekiel 42:6
For they were in three stories, but there were no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So the third story was made narrower than the lower and the middle stories from the ground.

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Ezekiel 40:7
And a room was one reed long and one reed wide. And between the rooms were five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.