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The Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 42, Verse 7

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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.
King James Version
And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof [was] fifty cubits.
American Standard Version
And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
New English Translation
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.
World English Bible
The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.
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For the length of the chambers that [were] in the utter court [was] fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple [were] an hundred cubits.
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And from under these chambers [was] the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
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The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
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And the way before them [was] like the appearance of the chambers which [were] toward the north, as long as they, [and] as broad as they: and all their goings out [were] both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
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And according to the doors of the chambers that [were] toward the south [was] a door in the head of the way, [even] the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
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Then said he unto me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they [be] holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place [is] holy.
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When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy [place] into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they [are] holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to [those things] which [are] for the people.
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Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east, and measured it round about.
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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.