Ezekiel 42:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Ezekiel 42:5 Cross References

Ezekiel 41:15

And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

Ezekiel 41:7

And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.

Ezekiel 42:3

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.

Ezekiel 42:6

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.