Ezekiel 42:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For they were in three stories, but did not have pillars as the pillars of the [outer] court; therefore the upper chambers were set back more than the lower and the middle ones from the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Common English Bible

⁶ This was because the promenades were arranged in three levels, but they didn’t have columns like those in the courtyards. For this reason, the top story was narrower than the first and second stories.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For they were of three levels, and they did not have pillars, as they were like the pillars of the courts. Because of this, they projected from the lower levels and from the middle, fifty cubits from the ground.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.

Ezekiel 42:6 Cross References

1 Kings 6:8

The entrance for the lower story was on the south side of the house: one went up by winding stairs to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.

Ezekiel 41:6

The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.

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.