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And it came to pass in the year four hundred and eighty after the sons of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the beginning of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which
is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
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And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, was sixty cubits long and twenty
cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the house; and its width was ten cubits before the house.
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And for the house he made windows broad within and narrow without.
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And against the wall of the house, he built wings round about,
against the walls of the house round about,
both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers round about.
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The lower wing
was five cubits wide, and the middle
was six cubits wide, and the third
was seven cubits wide, for without
in the wall of the house, he had made narrowed rests round about, that
the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
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And the house, when it was built, was put together of perfect stones
made ready before they were brought there; so that there was no hammer nor axe
nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.
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The door for the middle wing
was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle
wing and out of the middle into the third.