^5 (A)He also built a structure^[a] against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and ^(B)the inner sanctuary. And he made ^(C)side chambers all around.

⁸ The entrance for the lowest^[a] story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

⁶ And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, ^(A)thirty in each story. There were offsets^[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, ^(B)so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. ⁷ And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and ^(C)so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. ⁸ I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of ^(D)six long cubits. ⁹ The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. ^(E)The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the