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And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit, and their doors toward the north.
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Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries were higher than these -- than the lower and than the middlemost of the building.
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For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper building was narrowed more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
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And the wall that was outside opposite the chambers, toward the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
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For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and lo, those before the temple were a hundred cubits.
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And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
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The chambers were within the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate place and opposite the building.
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And the walk before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they and as broad as they; and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
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And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the walk, the passage directly before the wall toward the east as one entereth into them.
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Then said he unto me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are in front of the separate place, they are holy chambers where the priests who approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
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When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court; but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments and shall approach those things which are for the people."