1. Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.
2. The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.
3. Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
4. And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
5. Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
6. For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.
7. And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
8. For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.
9. Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.
10. In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers
11. with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,