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The word of the LORD came to Shlomo, saying,
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Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my mitzvot to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
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I will dwell among the children of Yisra'el, and will not forsake my people Yisra'el.
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So Shlomo built the house, and finished it.
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He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
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He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
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The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
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There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
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He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
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Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
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So Shlomo overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.