Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.
New American Standard Bible
Now the upper chambers were
King James Version
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Holman Bible
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.
International Standard Version
The upper chambers were narrower, since the galleries required more space than did the lower and middle portions of the building.
A Conservative Version
Now the upper chambers were shorter, for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
American Standard Version
Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
Amplified
Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took away more space from them than from the chambers on the lower and middle stories of the building;
Darby Translation
And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
Julia Smith Translation
And the upper cells shortened, for the offsets will prevail above these, from the lower and from the middle of the building:
King James 2000
Now the upper chambers were narrower: for the galleries took more space away from these, than from the lower, and the middle chambers of the building.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the upper chambers narrowed, for [the] galleries took away [space] from them more than [they took] from the lower [levels] and more than [they took] from the middle [level] [in the] building.
Modern King James verseion
And the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus the highest chambers were always narrower than the lowest and middle most of the building:
NET Bible
Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
New Heart English Bible
Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
The Emphasized Bible
Now, the highest chambers were shortened, because the galleries took away therefrom more than from the lower or from the middle in structure.
Webster
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
World English Bible
Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the upper chambers are short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 42:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Description Of Rooms For The Priests
4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north. 5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms. 6 For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 41:7
The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.