1 Kings 6

And it happened, in year 80 and year 400 of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv (it {is} the second month), of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he built the house of God.

And the house that King Solomon built for God, 60 cubits {was} its length, and 20 {was} its width, and 30 cubits {was} its height. \*

And the porch on the face of the nave of the house, 20 cubits {was} its length, on the face of the width of the house. Ten by the cubit {was} its depth, on the face of the house.

And he made for the house windows with narrowed frames. \*

And he built an addition against the wall of the house all around, the walls of the house all around, of the nave and of the inner sanctuary. And he made chambers all around.

The lowest addition, five by the cubit {was} its width, and the middle, six by the cubit {was} its width, and the third, seven by the cubit {was} its width. For he made ledges for the house all around the outside, so as not to hold onto the walls of the house. \*

And the house, in its being built, was built {of} finished stone {from} a quarry. So hammers or the chisel, any implement of iron, was not heard in the house in its being built.

The entrance of the middle chamber {was} to the shoulder of the house {at} the right, and they went up by stairs onto the middle, and from the middle to the third. \*

And he built the house and finished it. And he roofed the house with beams and boards of cedars.

And he built the addition against all of the house, five cubits {was} its height, and it held {onto} the house with wood of cedars. \*

And the word of God was to Solomon, saying,

“This house that you are building, if you walk in my statutes and do my judgments and keep all of my commandments by walking in them, then I will make my word stand with you that I spoke to David your father,

and I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.” \*

And Solomon built the house and finished it.

And he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he overlaid wood on the inside, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. \*

And he built 20 cubits from the recesses of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls. And he built {them} for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Holy of Holies.

And 40 by the cubit was the house (that {is}, the nave) to the face of it.

And cedar was to the house within, carving of gourds and opened ones of flowers. The whole {was} cedar, no stone was seen. \*

And he prepared the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside to put the Box of the Covenant of God there.

And the interior of the inner sanctuary, {it was} 20 cubits {in} length and 20 cubits {in} width, and 20 cubits {was} its height. And he overlaid it {with} pure gold, and he overlaid an altar {with} cedar. \*

And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside {with} pure gold. And he made chains of gold cross to the face of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it {with} gold.

So he overlaid all of the house {with} gold until finishing all of the house. And the whole of the altar that {was} to the inner sanctuary, he overlaid {with} gold. \*

And he made in the inner sanctuary two cherubs of wood of oil. Ten cubits {was} its height.

And five cubits {was} the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits {was} the second wing of the cherub. Ten cubits {were} from the ends of its wings and to the ends of its wings.

And ten by the cubit {was} the second cherub. One size and one shape {were} to the two cherubs.

The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit, and thus {was} the second cherub. \*

And he put the cherubs in the midst of the inner house. And they spread out the wings of the cherubs, and the wing of the one touched against the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall. And their wings toward the middle of the house were touching wing to wing.

And he overlaid the cherubs {with} gold. \*

And all of the walls of the house round about, he carved {with} engravings of carvings of cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers, from the inside and to the outside.

And the floor of the house, he overlaid {with} gold, to the inside and to the outside. \*

And the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of wood of oil. The lintel, the doorposts, {were} a fifth.

And the two of the doors {were} wood of oil, and he carved on them carvings of cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers, and he overlaid them {with} gold. And he beat out the gold on the cherubs and on the palm trees. \*

And thus he made for the entrance of the nave, doorposts of wood of oil from a fourth.

And the two of the doors {were} wood of cypress. The two of the leaves {of} the one door {were} folding, and the two of the curtains {of} the second door {were} folding.

And he carved cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers. And he overlaid {with} gold, smoothed onto the carved things. \*

And he built the inner courtyard {with} three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar. \*

In the fourth year, the house of God was founded, in the month of Ziv.

And in year 11, in the month of Bul (it {is} the eighth month), the house finished, in all of its matters and according to all of its plans. So he built it seven years. \*