Render: “And the upper chambers were” shortened, for galleries took off from them, from “the lower” and from “the middle-most, chambers, of the building.” The building rose in terraces, as was usual in Babylonian architecture, and so each of the two upper stories receded from the one below it.
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Ezekiel 42:5
5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were highera than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.