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It was in the 480th year after the people of Isra'el had left the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Shlomo's reign over Isra'el, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of ADONAI.
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The house which King Shlomo built for ADONAI was 105 feet long, thirty-five feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high.
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The hall fronting the temple of the house was thirty-five feet long, the same as the width of the house itself, so that its seventeen-and-a-half-foot width extended frontward from the house.
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The windows he made for the house were wide on the inside and narrow on the outside.
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Against the wall of the house he built an annex all the way around; it went all the way around the walls of the house, including both the temple and the sanctuary.
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The lowest floor of the annex was eight-and-three-quarters feet wide, the middle floor ten-and-a-half feet wide and the third floor twelve-and-a-quarter feet wide; for he had made the outer part of the wall of the house step-shaped, so that the beams of the annex would not have to be attached to the house walls.
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For the house, when under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; so that no hammer, chisel or iron tool of any kind was heard in the house while it was being built.
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The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the house; a spiral staircase went up to the middle floor and on to the third.
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So he built the house, and after finishing it, he put its roof on - cedar planks over beams.
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Each floor of the annex surrounding the house was eight-and-three-quarters feet high and was attached to the house with beams of cedar.
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Then this word of ADONAI came to Shlomo: