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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:
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"Concerning this house which you are building: if you will live according to my regulations, follow my rulings and observe all my mitzvot and live by them, then I will establish with you my promise that I made to David your father-
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I will live in it among the people of Isra'el, and I will not abandon my people Isra'el."