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Ezekiel 42:3
Ezekiel 42:3 is verse 3 of Ezekiel chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
20 (long) cubits is approximately 35 feet or 10.7 meters.
King James Version
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
World English Bible
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.
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Ezekiel 42:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
2 The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
3 Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
4 In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
5 Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ezekiel 41:10and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
Ezekiel 40:17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
Ezekiel 40:18which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
2 Chronicles 7:3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
Ezekiel 41:15Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
Ezekiel 41:16as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.
Song of Solomon 1:17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Song of Solomon 7:5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.