Ezekiel 42:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, the chambers rose gallery by gallery in three stories.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Adjoining the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was balcony facing balcony in three stories.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

Common English Bible

³ It was next to the twenty chambers that belonged to the inner courtyard and next to the pavement of the outer courtyard, and it had three courses of promenades.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Opposite the twenty cubits of the interior court, and opposite the layer of pavement stones in the outer court, in that place, there was a portico joined to a triple portico.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone, where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.

Ezekiel 42:3 Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:3

When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”

Song of Solomon 1:17

the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

Ezekiel 41:10

and the chambers of the court was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.

Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.