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Ezekiel 42:2-11 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2. As to the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits.

3. Opposite the twenty cubits of the inner courtyard, and opposite the pavement that was to the outer courtyard was a gallery facing a gallery in the three stories.

4. And in front of the chambers was a passageway ten cubits in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit, and their doorways were to the north.

5. And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building.

6. For they were three stories and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up.

7. And there was a wall that was to the outside alongside the chambers on the walkway to the outer courtyard in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.

8. For the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and look! The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred cubits.

9. And from under these chambers was the entrance from the east for them when one enters from the outer courtyard.

10. All along the width of the wall of the courtyard eastward in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers.

11. And a walkway was before them like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, just like them in their length, and so was their width and all their exits, and they were built like their arrangements and like their doorways,

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