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And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Yisra’el came out from the land of Mitzrayim, in the fourth year of the reign of Shəlomah over Yisra’el, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the House of Yahuah.
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And the House that King Shəlomah built for Yahuah was sixty cubits in length, twenty in width, and thirty cubits in height.
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And the porch before the Temple of the House was twenty cubits in length, according to the width of the House, and ten cubits in width before the face of the House.
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And for the House he made windows with narrowing frames.
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And against the wall of the House he built chambers all around, against the walls of the House all around, both the Temple and the Inner Sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.
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The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for around the outside of the House he made offsets in the wall, so that the beams would not be fastened into the walls of the House.
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And the House, when it was being built, was built from stone made complete at the quarry; and neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built.
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The entrance of the middle chamber was on the right side of the House, and by winding stairs they went up into the middle chamber, and from the middle into the third.
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And he built the House and completed it, and he covered the House with beams and rows of cedar.
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And he built the chambers against all the House, five cubits high, and they were joined to the House with cedar timber.
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And the Word of Yahuah came to Shəlomah, saying:
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“Concerning this House that you are building: if you walk in My statutes, and do My Judgments, and guard all My commandments by walking in them, then I will establish My Word with you that I spoke to Daviyd your father.
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And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Yisra’el, and I will not forsake My people Yisra’el.”
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And Shəlomah built the House and completed it.
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And he built the walls of the House within 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.
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And he built twenty cubits at the rear of the House with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls; and he built it within for the Inner Sanctuary, for the Most Holy Place.
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And the House, that is, the Temple before it, was forty cubits.
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And the cedar of the House within was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
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And the Inner Sanctuary he prepared within the House, to set there the ark of the Covenant of Yahuah.
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And before the face of the Inner Sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height; and he overlaid it with pure gold. And he overlaid the altar with cedar.
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And Shəlomah overlaid the House within with pure gold, and he caused chains of gold to pass before the face of the Inner Sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
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And the whole House he overlaid with gold, until all the House was completed. And the whole altar that belonged to the Inner Sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
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And within the Inner Sanctuary he made two keruvim of olive wood, ten cubits high.
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And one wing of the keruv was five cubits, and the second wing of the keruv was five cubits; ten cubits from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing.
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And the second keruv was ten cubits. The two keruvim had one measure and one form.
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The height of the one keruv was ten cubits, and so was the second keruv.
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And he set the keruvim within the inner House. And they spread out the wings of the keruvim, so that the wing of the one touched the wall, and the wing of the second keruv touched the second wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the House.
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And he overlaid the keruvim with gold.
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And all the walls of the House all around he carved with carved figures of keruvim, and palm trees, and open flowers, within and without.
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And the floor of the House he overlaid with gold, within and without.
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And for the entrance of the Inner Sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were a fifth part.
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And the two doors were of olive wood, and he carved upon them carvings of keruvim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the keruvim and upon the palm trees.
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And likewise he made for the entrance of the Temple doorposts of olive wood, a fourth part,
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and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door folded, and the two leaves of the second door folded.
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And he carved keruvim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
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And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and one row of cedar beams.
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In the fourth year the Foundation of the House of Yahuah was laid, in the month of Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the House was completed in all its matters and according to all its judgment. And he built it seven years.