The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets 'in the wall' of the house round about, that 'the beams' should not have hold in the walls of the house.
Þe bildyng of tablis, þat was vndur, hadde fyue cubitis of breede; and þe myddil bildyng of tablis was of sixe cubits of breede; and þe thridde bildyng of tablis was hauynge seuene cubitis of breede. Soþeli he puttide beemys in þe hous bi cumpas with outforth, þat tho cleuiden not to þe wallis of þe temple.