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And thus Solomon began to build the house of God: the length in cubits—even the first measurement from end to end, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
1
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in the mount of Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.
2
And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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And thus Solomon began to build the house of God: the length in cubits—even the first measurement from end to end, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
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And the portico in front of the house, its length in front of the breadth of the house twenty cubits, and its height a hundred and twenty cubits: and he gilded it within with pure gold.
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And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm-trees and chains.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.