Ezekiel 41:7-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ 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.^[a](A)

⁸ I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10½ feet high.^{[b](B) 9} The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8¾ feet.^[c] The free space between the side rooms of the temple