¹⁶ as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows^(A) and galleries around the three of them—everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.^(B)

³ Both in the section twenty cubits^[a] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery^(A) faced gallery at the three levels.^(B)

⁵ Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.