Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
Render: "And the upper chambers were" shortened, for galleries took off from them, from "the lower" and from "the middle-most, chambers, of the building." The building rose in terraces, as was usual in Babylonian architecture, and so each of the two upper stories receded from the one below it.
42:5 Shorter - At first view it should seem to refer to the length, but indeed it refers to the height of the chambers, of which the lowest chamber was highest, the second lower pitched than the first, yet of greater height than the uppermost between the floor and ceiling.