1 Kings 6

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year ofSolomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began building the Temple ofYahweh.	1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio (the same is the second month), he began to build a house to the Lord.
2 The temple which King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and twenty-five high.	2 And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.
3 The portico in front of the Hekal of the Temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the Templeand ten cubits wide along the length of the Temple.	3 And there was a porch before the temple of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth before the face of the temple.
4 He made windows for the Temple with frames and latticework.	4 And he made in the temple oblique windows.
5 He also built an annex against the Temple wal , right round the Hekal and Debir. He built lateral storeysal round;	5 And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round about, in the walls of the house round about the temple and the oracle, and he made sides round about.
6 the lowest lateral storey was five cubits wide, the middle one six cubits, and the third seven cubits, for hehad made the outside of the Temple wal correspondingly stepped back al round, so that the annex was notattached to the Temple wal s.	6 The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third door was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.
7 (The building of the Temple was done with quarry -- dressed stone; no sound of hammer or pick or anyiron tool was to be heard in the Temple while it was being built.)	7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.
8 The entrance to the lowest storey was at the right-hand corner of the Temple; access to the middlestorey was by a spiral staircase, and so from the middle storey to the third.	8 The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house : and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.
9 Having finished building the Temple, he roofed the Temple with a coffered ceiling of cedar wood.	9 So he built the house, and finished it: end he covered the house with roofs of cedar.
10 Round the outside of the Temple he then built the annex which was five cubits high and was joined tothe Temple by cedar-wood beams.	10 And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.
11 And the word of Yahweh came to Solomon,	11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
12 'With regard to this temple which you are now building, if you follow my statutes and obey myordinances and faithful y follow my commandments, I shal fulfil the promise which I made about you to yourfather David.	12 This house, which thou buildest, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee which I spoke to David thy father.
13 And I shal make my home among the Israelites and never forsake Israel my people.'	13 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14 Solomon finished building the Temple.	14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.
15 He lined the inside of the Temple wal s with panels of cedar wood-panelling them on the inside fromthe floor of the Temple to the beams of the ceiling -- and laid the floor of the Temple with juniper planks.	15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roots, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16 The twenty cubits measured from the end of the Temple he built of cedar planks from the floor to thebeams, and this part was reserved as the Debir, the Holy of Holies.	16 And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.
17 The Temple measured forty cubits -- the Hekal -- in front of the Debir.	17 And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.
18 There was cedar wood round the inside of the Temple, ornamentally carved with gourds and rosettes;al was cedar wood, with no stone showing.	18 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.
19 In the inner part of the Temple he designed a Debir, to contain the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.	19 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20 The Debir was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty high, and he overlaid it on the insidewith pure gold. He made an altar of cedar wood	20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.
21 in front of the Debir and overlaid it with gold.	21 And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.
22 He overlaid the whole Temple with gold, the whole Temple entirely.	22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.
23 In the Debir he made two great winged creatures of wild-olive wood. . .It was ten cubits high.	23 And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.
24 One winged creature's wing was five cubits long and the other wing five cubits: ten cubits from wing tipto wing tip.	24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.
25 The other winged creature also measured ten cubits; both had the same measurements and the sameshape.	25 dummy verses inserted by amos
26 The height of one was the same as the other's.	26 The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:
27 He placed them in the middle of the inner chamber; their wings were spread out so that the wing of onetouched one of the wal s and the wing of the other touched the other wall, while their wings met in the middle ofthe chamber wing to wing.
28 And he overlaid them with gold.	28 That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.
29 Al round the Temple wal s he carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees and rosettes, both insideand outside.	29 And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.
30 He overlaid the floor of the Temple with gold, both inside and outside.	30 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
31 He made the door of the Debir with uprights of wild-olive wood, and door jambs with five indentedsections,	31 And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.
32 and the two leaves of wild-olive wood. He carved figures of great winged creatures, palm trees androsettes which he overlaid with gold, and he gilded winged creatures and palm trees.	32 And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and without.
33 Similarly, he made uprights of wild-olive wood for the door of the Hekal, and door jambs with fourindented sections,	33 And in the entrance of the oracle he made little doors of olive tree, and posts of five corners,
34 and the two leaves of juniper: one leaf had two ribs binding it, and the other had two ribs binding it.	34 And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much projecting: and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the cherubims and the palm trees, and the other things with gold.
35 He carved winged creatures, palm trees and rosettes, which he overlaid with gold laid evenly over thecarvings.	35 And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree foursquare:
36 He built the wal of the inner court in three courses of dressed stone and one course of cedar beams.	36 And two doors of fir tree, one of each side : and each door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.
37 In the fourth year, in the month of Ziv, the foundations of the Temple were laid;	37 And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.
38 in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul -- that is, the eighth month -- the Temple was completedexactly as it had been planned and designed. Solomon took seven years to build it.	38 And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.
	39 In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded in the month Zio: