And he measured the length of the building to the face of the separate area which was on its rear; and its gallery from here and from there was a hundred cubits, and the inner temple, and the porches of the court,
And there was a widening and a winding upwards and upwards for the side rooms, for the winding around of the house went upward and upward, round about and round about the house. On account of this the width of the house went up, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle story.
Across from the twenty cubits which were to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which was to the outer court, was gallery on the face of gallery, in three stories.
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.