Verse 6
1 Kings 6:6
GOD'S WORD Translation
6
The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
Original Language Text
hebrew
ה/יצוע הַ/יָּצִ֨יעַ הַ/תַּחְתֹּנָ֜ה חָמֵ֧שׁ בָּ/אַמָּ֣ה רָחְבָּ֗/הּ וְ/הַ/תִּֽיכֹנָה֙ שֵׁ֤שׁ בָּֽ/אַמָּה֙ רָחְבָּ֔/הּ וְ/הַ֨/שְּׁלִישִׁ֔ית שֶׁ֥בַע בָּ/אַמָּ֖ה רָחְבָּ֑/הּ כִּ֡י מִגְרָעוֹת֩ נָתַ֨ן לַ/בַּ֤יִת סָבִיב֙ ח֔וּצָ/ה לְ/בִלְתִּ֖י אֲחֹ֥ז בְּ/קִֽירוֹת הַ/בָּֽיִת
English Translation
The execution of the lower part was five cubits wide, and the middle part was six cubits wide, and the third part was seven cubits wide, because he placed ledges around the house outside to prevent it from being held by the walls of the house.
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Chapter 6 Context
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In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egyp...
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The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, an...
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The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the wid...
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He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
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Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around...
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The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven c...
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The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer...
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The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stair...
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So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
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He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with ti...
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Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,
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“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordin...
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I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
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He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the wall...
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He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceil...
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In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
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There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was...
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He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenan...
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Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubit...
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So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner...
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He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole...
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In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the t...
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The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
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One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
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He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that th...
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He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open fl...
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He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.
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For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were...
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So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open...
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He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the...
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and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of th...
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He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engra...
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He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
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The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.
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In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout...
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