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¹ Then began Solomon, to build the house of Yahweh, in Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where he had appeared unto David his father, - -in the place which David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.² And he began to build, in the second month, on the second, in the fourth year of his reign.³ And, these, are the things wherein Solomon was grounded for the building of the house of God, - The length, by cubits, in the first measure, was sixty cubits, and, the breadth, twenty cubits.⁴ And, the porch which was in front of the length, in front of the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and, the height thereof, was a hundred and twenty, - and he overlaid it, within, with pure gold.⁵ And, the greater house, covered he with cypress wood, and overlaid it with fine gold, - and raised thereon palms, and wreathed garlands.⁶ And he covered the house with precious stones, for beauty, - and, the gold, was gold of Parvaim.⁷ And he covered the house, the beams, the entrance-hall, and the walls thereof and the doors thereof, with gold, - and he carved cherubim upon the walls.⁸ And he made the most holy house, the length whereof, was, according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and, the breadth thereof, twenty cubits, - and he covered it with fine gold, to the number of six hundred talents;⁹ and, the weight of the nails, amounted to fifty shekels of gold, - and, the upper chambers, covered he with gold.

¹⁰ And he made, in the most holy house, two cherubim, of carved work, - and covered them with gold.¹¹ And, as for the wings of the cherubim, the length of them, was twenty cubits, - the one wing, by the cubit was five, reaching to the wall of the house, and, the other wing, five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub;¹² and, the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house, - and, the other wing, was five cubits, cleaving to the wing of the other cherub:¹³ the wings of these cherubim, outspread, were twenty cubits, - and, they themselves, were standing upon their feet, and, their faces, were inward.¹⁴ And he made a vail, of blue and purple, and crimson and byssus cloth, - and raised thereon cherubim.¹⁵ And he made, for the front of the house, two pillars, thirty five cubits in length, - and, the capital which was upon the top of each, was five cubits.¹⁶ And he made wreathen chains in the shrine, and put them upon the top of the pillars, - and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them in the chains,¹⁷ And he reared up the pillars in front of the temple, one, on the right, and, one, on the left, - and called the name of that on the right hand, Jachin, and the name of that on the left, Boaz.