6:8 The entrance to the bottom14 level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up15 to the middle floor and then on up to the third16 floor.
tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
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tnHeb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
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tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the SyriacPeshitta, and Vulgateהַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashélishit, “the third”) rather than MTהַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashélishim, “the thirty”).