‘Over against (‘adjoining' or ‘opposite') the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court were gallery upon gallery to the third storey (in three storeys).'
Ezekiel now describes another building, three storeys high, which comes between the temple yard (the ‘inner court which is twenty cubits wide') and the pavement of the ‘outer court' (around the outer wall). We are possibly to see this one as definitely in the outer court proper, otherwise it could have been stated as being within the inner wall, and it being in the outer court would explain why the pavement is mentioned. But some see it as within the inner court proper, the phrase ‘over against' simply meaning ‘in the general direction of'.