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Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
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Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
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Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
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For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
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The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
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For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
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From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.
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In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
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The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
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According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
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Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy.