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5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
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Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.
6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
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The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.
7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
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The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.
8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
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I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits.
9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
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The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple
10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
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and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
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