5And the upper chambers are short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;


In Context

2 At the front of the length is a hundred cubits at the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.

3 Over-against the twenty cubits that are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that is to the outer court, is gallery over-against gallery, in the three storeys.

4 And at the front of the chambers is a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings are at the north.

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;

6 for they are threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back — more than the lower and than the middle one — from the ground.

7 As to the wall that is at the outside, over-against the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length is fifty cubits;

Ezekiel 42:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:5Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:5Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:5Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from the lower parts, and from the midst of the building.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.