Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building: Now renders the Hebrew waw conjunction (literally “And”), which may be omitted here (so Good News Translation, Contemporary English Version). A model for this verse is:

• The rooms that were on the top story were narrower than those on the middle and bottom stories because the platforms [or, balconies] used some of the space of the lower stories.

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .