Ezekiel 41:5–9

⁵Then he measured the wall of the ¹temple, six cubits; and the width of the ^aside chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

^6aThe side chambers were in three stories, ¹one above another, and ²thirty in each story; and ³the side chambers ^bextended to the wall which stood on ⁴their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

⁷The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ^astructure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ¹second story.

⁸I saw also that the house had a raised ¹platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of ^asix ²long cubits in height.

⁹The ¹thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ^afree space between the side chambers belonging to the temple