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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.

Now the upper {H5945} chambers {H3957} were shorter {H7114}: for the galleries {H862} were higher {H398} than these {H2007}, than the lower {H8481}, and than the middlemost {H8484} of the building {H1146}.

The upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took up some of their space, more than from the [rooms on the] lower and middle [floors] of the building.

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

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  • Ezekiel 41:7 (2 votes)

    And [there was] an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [was still] upward, and so increased [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the midst.
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