Outside the Temple

Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10½ feet[a] thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was seven feet.[b](A) The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of 30 rooms each.[c] There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.(B) The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.[d](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:5 Lit six cubits
  2. Ezekiel 41:5 Lit four cubits
  3. Ezekiel 41:6 Lit another three and 30 times
  4. Ezekiel 41:7 Hb obscure

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