Verse Comparison: Ezekiel 42:6
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified® Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
The rooms on the bottom level supported those on the two upper levels, and so these rooms did not have columns like other buildings in the courtyard.
Darby English Version
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.
Good News Bible
The rooms at all three levels were on terraces and were not supported by columns like the other buildings in the courtyard.
King James Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
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.
New International Version
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.
New King James Version
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.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For they appeared in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers they had set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
