Ezekiel 42:5

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.

Cross References

Ezekiel 41:7

And the side-chambers were broader as they circled [the house] higher and higher, for the circling of the house went higher and higher round about the house. Therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward, and so increased [

Ezekiel 41:15

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

Ezekiel 42:3

Opposite the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and opposite 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 did not have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore [the uppermost] was narrowed more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.