A moment in scripture
Ezekiel 42:5
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
The surrounding passage
- Ezekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
- Ezekiel 42:4
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
- Ezekiel 42:6
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
- Ezekiel 42:7
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.