Ezekiel 42:5

The side rooms on the third story were narrower than those on the first or second stories of the building because the corridors took space away from them.

Ezekiel 41:7

The side rooms grew wider all the way around as they went up, story after story. The surrounding structure went from story to story all around the Temple. The structure grew wider as it went higher. A stairway went from the first story through the second story to the third 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 rooms grew wider all the way around as they went up, story after story. The surrounding structure went from story to story all around the Temple. The structure grew wider as it went higher. A stairway went from the first story through the second story to the third story.

Than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building

Ezekiel 42:6
The rooms were in three stories. They did not have pillars like the pillars in the courtyards. That is why the rooms on the third story were set farther back than those on the first and second stories.

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Ezekiel 40:7
There were also guardrooms. Each guardroom was ten and one half feet long and ten and one half feet wide. The space between the guardrooms was nine feet thick. And the entrance to the gateway by the entrance hall of the temple was ten and one half feet wide.