neithermost] The chambers were three stories high one over another: and as they were higher, they were also wider; for the walls were thickest at the bottom; the higher they ascended, the thinner they were, and the space betwixt them the wider. Every chamber was of one height, namely, five cubits, verse 10. narrowed rests] Heb. narrowings, or rebatements. At the floor of the middle chamber there was a rebatement in the wall, a cubit thick; and at the floor of the highest chambers such another rebatement: on these rebatements the beams of the chambers were laid.