Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

World English Bible

Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building.

American Standard Version

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe the chambers aboue were narower: for those chambers seemed to eate vp these, to wit, the lower, and those that were in the middes of the building.

Darby Translation

And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.

Young's Literal Translation

And the upper chambers [are] short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;

Bible in Basic English

And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

In context

4In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

6For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

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