Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

And the upper chambers are short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;

And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.