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.
Ezekiel 42:5 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building. |
| ASV | Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. |
| YLT | And the upper chambers are short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building; |
| DARBY | And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building. |
| BBE | And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms. |
| Webster | Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. |
What does Ezekiel 42:5 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Ezekiel 42:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 42:5
- Ezekiel 41:7
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
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Context
- Ezekiel 42:4
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 42:6
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Ezekiel 42:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y las cámaras más altas eran más estrechas; porque las galerías quitaban de ellas más que de las bajas y de las de en medio del edificio: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les cellules supérieures étaient raccourcies (parce que les galeries en ôtaient une portion) en comparaison des inférieures et de celles du milieu du bâtiment. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und weil die Galerien Raum von ihnen wegnahmen, waren die oberen Zellen schmäler als die unteren und die mittleren des Baues. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ubi erant gazophylacia in superioribus humiliora, quia supportabant porticus quæ ex illis eminebant de inferioribus, et de mediis ædificii. |