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So Shlomo finished building the house.
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The insides of the walls of the house he built with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the joists of the ceiling he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
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The thirty-five-foot back portion of the house he built with boards of cedar from the floor to the joists and reserved this part of the house to be a sanctuary, the Especially Holy Place;
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while the rest of the house, that is, the temple in front, was seventy feet long.
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The cedar covering the house was carved with gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was visible.
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In the inner part of the house he set up the sanctuary, so that the ark for the covenant of ADONAI could be placed there.
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This sanctuary was thirty-five feet long, wide and high; and it was overlaid with pure gold. In front of it he set an altar, which he covered with cedar.
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Shlomo overlaid the interior of the house with pure gold and had chains of gold placed before the sanctuary, which itself he overlaid with gold.
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The entire house he overlaid with gold until it was completely covered with it. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the sanctuary.
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Inside the sanctuary he made two k'ruvim of olive-wood, each seventeen-and-a-half feet high.
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Each of the two wings of one of the k'ruvim was eight-and-three quarters feet long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other was seventeen-and-a-half feet.