Ezekiel 42:5
What does Ezekiel 42:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 42:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the upper chambers <FI>are<Fi> short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts, and from the midst of the building.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
Context
v.4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
v.5This passage
v.6For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 41:7
And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.
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