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The door for the middle story was in the right side of the Beis [Hamikdash]; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
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So he built the Beis [Hamikdash], and finished it; and covered the Beis [Hamikdash] with beams and boards of cedar.
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And then he built chambers against all the Beis [Hamikdash], five cubits high; and they rested on the Beis [Hamikdash] with timber of cedar.
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And the Devar Hashem came to Sh’lomo, saying,
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Concerning this Beis [Hamikdash] which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute My judgments, and be shomer over all My mitzvot to walk in them; then will I perform My word (promise) with thee, which I spoke unto Dovid thy father;
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And I will dwell among the Bnei Yisroel, and will not forsake My people Yisroel.
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So Sh’lomo built the Beis [Hamikdash], and finished it.
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And he built the walls of the Beis [Hamikdash] within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the Beis [Hamikdash] to the rafters of the ceiling; and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the Beis [Hamikdash] with planks of cypress.
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And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the Beis [Hamikdash], from the floor to the rafters with boards of cedar; he even built them for it within, even for the Debir, even for the Kodesh HaKodashim.
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And the Beis, that is, the Heikhal in front of it, was forty cubits long.
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And the cedar of the Beis [Hamikdash] within was carved with gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
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And the Devir he prepared in the Beis [Hamikdash] within, to set there the Aron Brit Hashem.
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And the Devir was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure zahav (gold); and so covered the mizbe’ach which was of cedar.
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So Sh’lomo overlaid the Beis [Hamikdash] within with pure zahav (gold); and he drew chains of zahav (gold) across, in front of the Devir; and he overlaid it with zahav.
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And the whole interior he overlaid with zahav (gold), in order that kol haBeis be perfect; also the whole Mizbe’ach that belonged to the Devir he overlaid with zahav (gold).
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And within the Devir he made two keruvim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.