1 Kings 6

NEW JERUSALEM	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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 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.
2 The temple which King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and twenty-five high.	2 The house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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 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.
4 He made windows for the Temple with frames and latticework.	4 And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
5 He also built an annex against the Temple wal , right round the Hekal and Debir. He built lateral storeysal round;	5 He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running round the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.
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 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.
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 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 temple, while it was being built.
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 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.
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; and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks 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 He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
11 And the word of Yahweh came to Solomon,	11 Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,
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 "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
13 And I shal make my home among the Israelites and never forsake Israel my people.'	13 And I will dwell among 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 He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
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 He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.
17 The Temple measured forty cubits -- the Hekal -- in front of the Debir.	17 The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, 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 The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.
19 In the inner part of the Temple he designed a Debir, to contain the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.	19 The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, 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 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also made an altar of cedar.
21 in front of the Debir and overlaid it with gold.	21 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.
22 He overlaid the whole Temple with gold, the whole Temple entirely.	22 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.
23 In the Debir he made two great winged creatures of wild-olive wood. . .It was ten cubits high.	23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
24 One winged creature's wing was five cubits long and the other wing five cubits: ten cubits from wing tipto wing tip.	24 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.
25 The other winged creature also measured ten cubits; both had the same measurements and the sameshape.	25 The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
26 The height of one was the same as the other's.	26 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
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.	27 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.
28 And he overlaid them with gold.	28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 Al round the Temple wal s he carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees and rosettes, both insideand outside.	29 He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
30 He overlaid the floor of the Temple with gold, both inside and outside.	30 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.
31 He made the door of the Debir with uprights of wild-olive wood, and door jambs with five indentedsections,	31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts formed a pentagon.
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 He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; he overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim and upon the palm trees.
33 Similarly, he made uprights of wild-olive wood for the door of the Hekal, and door jambs with fourindented sections,	33 So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,
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 cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35 He carved winged creatures, palm trees and rosettes, which he overlaid with gold laid evenly over thecarvings.	35 On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work.
36 He built the wal of the inner court in three courses of dressed stone and one course of cedar beams.	36 He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and one course of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year, in the month of Ziv, the foundations of the Temple were laid;	37 In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.
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 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.