^6:8The 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.

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Footnotes

14 The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
15 Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
16 The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew , the , and הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashélishit, “the third”) rather than הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashélishim, “the thirty”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.

NLTNew Living Translation

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor.

KJV 1900King James Version

The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

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