Parallel Verses
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.
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;
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.
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 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 before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits width inward, a way of one cubit. And their doors were northward. 5 And the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building. 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.
Phrases
Cross References
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.