Ezekiel 42:6 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

for they [are] threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back -- more than the lower and than the middle one -- from the ground.

English ASV

For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

English Amplified

For they were in three stories, but did not have pillars as the pillars of the [outer] court; therefore the upper chambers were set back more than the lower and the middle ones from the ground.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For they were in three stories, but did not have pillars as the pillars of the [outer] court; therefore the upper chambers were set back more than the lower and the middle ones from the ground.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For they were arranged in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For they were in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore [the third story] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.

English EASY 2024

They did not have pillars to hold them up as other rooms in the temple yards did. Instead, the walls of the lower rooms held up the rooms above them. So the rooms of each level were smaller than the rooms below them.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

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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.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

The rooms at all three levels were on terraces and were not supported by columns like the other buildings in the courtyard.

English God's Word - GW 1995

The rooms were in three stories. They didn't have pillars like the pillars in the courtyards. That is why the rooms on the third story were set farther back than those on the first and second stories.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For they were arranged in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For they were in three stories, but had no pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the building was set back more than the lowest and the middle ones from the ground.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

for they were in three rows and had no foundations to conform with the foundations of the courts, therefore they were on a lower terrace of the ground than the closest and the middle chambers.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and upper ones.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

The courtyards had pillars. But the rooms on the third floor didn't. So their floor space was smaller than the space in the rooms on the other floors.

English NIV

The rooms on the third floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.

English NKJ 1982

For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up.

English NLT

Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; for this reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

The rooms on the third floor had no columns like the pillars of the outer courtyard. That is why the top story was narrower than the middle and bottom stories. The rooms became smaller the higher they went.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; hence the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

And since the building was not built with girders as those in the outer court were, the upper stories were set back from the ground floor.

English Tyndale 1537

for they bare chamber upon chamber, and stood tree together one upon another not having pillars like the fore court: therefore were they smaller than those beneath and in the middest, to reken from the ground upward.