The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
Jewish Publication Society of America Version (JPS1917) - Ezekiel 41:11 >And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.