The door for the middle side-section was in the right side of the house. And they went up with winding stairs into the middle one; and from the middle one into the third.
And when it was being built, the house was built of finished stone made ready beforehand. And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe, or any iron tool, while it was being built.
For they were in three stories, and there were no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So the third was made narrower than the lower and middle stories from the ground.