¹⁵ He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its ^(A)galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner ^[a]temple and the porches of the court,

¹⁶ their doorposts and ^(A)the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with ^(B)wood from the ground to the windows—the windows were covered—

⁵ Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building.