1. In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv (which is the second month), he began to build the house of the Lord.
2. The house which King Solomon built for the Lord had a length of sixty cubits, a width of twenty cubits, and a height of thirty cubits.
3. The porch in front of the temple was twenty cubits in length, the same as the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
4. He made beveled windows for the house.
5. He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.
6. The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
7. The house was built of stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
8. The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and it had winding stairs into the middle chamber and out of the middle into the third.
9. So he built the house and finished it and covered it with beams and boards of cedar.
10. Then he built chambers against the whole house, five cubits high, and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.