Ezekiel 42:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Now the upper chambers were shorter, for the balconies took off from these more than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

Common English Bible

⁵ The upper chambers were smaller, because the promenades took up more space from them than from the first and second stories.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ In that place, there were storerooms in the upper part of the lower level. For they supported the porticos, which projected from them out of the lower level, and out of the middle of the building.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from the lower parts, and from the midst of the building.

Ezekiel 42:5 Cross References

Ezekiel 41:15

Then he measured the width of the building facing the yard at the west, together with its galleries on either side, one hundred cubits. The nave of the temple’s interior and the outer vestibule

Ezekiel 41:7

The passageway of the side chambers widened from story to story, for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one.

Ezekiel 42:3

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.

Ezekiel 42:6

For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; for this reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.