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Ezekiel Chapter 42 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Ezekiel 42:5

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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BBE Ezekiel 42:5

And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.
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DARBY Ezekiel 42:5

And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
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KJV 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.
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WBT Ezekiel 42:5

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WEB Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
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YLT Ezekiel 42:5

And the upper chambers `are' short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - The rendering of the Revised Version sufficiently explains this otherwise obscure verse, "Now the upper chambers were shorter," or narrower, "for the galleries took away from these;" literally, did eat of them, "more than from the lower and the middlemest in the building." In other words, the chambers rose in terrace form, each of the upper stories receding from that below it, as was customary in Babylonian architecture.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) For the galleries were higher than these.--Translate this verse, And the upper chambers were shortened, because the galleries took off from them (literally, eat of them) in comparison with the lower and the middle [chambers] of the building. The building was in three storeys (Ezekiel 42:6), like the chambers round the Temple, but the gallery is mentioned only in connection with the third (Ezekiel 42:3). As it must have been taken out of the width of the chambers, it made those of the third storey narrower.