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Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.
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For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; hence the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.
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And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
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For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were a hundred cubits long.
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Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court,
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where the outside wall begins. On the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers
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with a passage in front of them; they were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors.
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And below the south chambers was an entrance on the east side, where one enters the passage, and opposite them was a dividing wall.
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Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings; there they shall put the most holy offerings--the cereal offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.
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When the priests enter the holy place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people."
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Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate which faced east, and measured the temple area round about.