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Adjoining the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
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And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
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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.