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1	It was in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, that he began to construct the Temple of the LORD. This was 480 years after the people of Israel were rescued from their slavery in the land of Egypt.	In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.	In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.
2	The Temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.	The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.	The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.
3	The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the Temple.	The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.	The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple.
4	Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.	And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.	He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.
5	He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.	He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.	Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
6	The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1 / 2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1 / 2 feet wide. The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.	The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.	The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven. He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.
7	The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site.	When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.	In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
8	The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors.	The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.	The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.
9	After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.	So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.	So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10	As already stated, he built a complex of rooms along the sides of the building, attached to the Temple walls by cedar timbers. Each story of the complex was 7 1 / 2 feet high.	He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.	And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
11	Then the LORD gave this message to Solomon:	Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,	The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12	“Concerning this Temple you are building, if you keep all my decrees and regulations and obey all my commands, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father, David.	“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.	“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
13	I will live among the Israelites and will never abandon my people Israel.”	And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”	And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
14	So Solomon finished building the Temple.	So Solomon built the house and finished it.	So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15	The entire inside, from floor to ceiling, was paneled with wood. He paneled the walls and ceilings with cedar, and he used planks of cypress for the floors.	He lined 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 covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.	He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
16	He partitioned off an inner sanctuary—the Most Holy Place—at the far end of the Temple. It was 30 feet deep and was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.	He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.	He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
17	The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.	The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.	The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18	Cedar paneling completely covered the stone walls throughout the Temple, and the paneling was decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers.	The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.	The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19	He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant would be placed.	The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.	He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20	This inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with solid gold. He also overlaid the altar made of cedar.	The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.	The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21	Then Solomon overlaid the rest of the Temple’s interior with solid gold, and he made gold chains to protect the entrance to the Most Holy Place.	And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.	Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
22	So he finished overlaying the entire Temple with gold, including the altar that belonged to the Most Holy Place.	And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.	So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23	He made two cherubim of wild olive wood, each 15 feet tall, and placed them in the inner sanctuary.	In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.	For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24	The wingspan of each of the cherubim was 15 feet, each wing being 7 1 / 2 feet long.	Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.	One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
25	The two cherubim were identical in shape and size;	The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.	The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
26	each was 15 feet tall.	The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.	The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
27	He placed them side by side in the inner sanctuary of the Temple. Their outspread wings reached from wall to wall, while their inner wings touched at the center of the room.	He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.	He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
28	He overlaid the two cherubim with gold.	And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.	He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29	He decorated all the walls of the inner sanctuary and the main room with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.	Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.	On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
30	He overlaid the floor in both rooms with gold.	The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.	He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31	For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made double doors of wild olive wood with five-sided doorposts.	For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.	For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.
32	These double doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. The doors, including the decorations of cherubim and palm trees, were overlaid with gold.	He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.	And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
33	Then he made four-sided doorposts of wild olive wood for the entrance to the Temple.	So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,	In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall.
34	There were two folding doors of cypress wood, and each door was hinged to fold back upon itself.	and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.	He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
35	These doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers—all overlaid evenly with gold.	On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.	He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36	The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.	He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.	And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
37	The foundation of the LORD’s Temple was laid in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.	In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.	The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
38	The entire building was completed in every detail by midautumn, in the month of Bul, during the eleventh year of his reign. So it took seven years to build the Temple.	And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.	In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.
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