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Ezekiel 42:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building. "
Ezekiel 42:5
Verse in Context
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3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the three stories.
4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building.
6 For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
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Ezekiel 42:1
"Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north."
Ezekiel 42:2
"Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits."
Ezekiel 42:3
"Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the three stories."
Ezekiel 42:4
"Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north."
Ezekiel 42:6
"For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground."
Ezekiel 42:7
"The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, was fifty cubits long."
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