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1 Kings 6:9-17 New Century Version (NCV)

9. Solomon put a roof made from beams and cedar boards on the Temple. So he finished building the Temple

10. as well as the bottom floor that was beside the Temple. This bottom floor was seven and one-half feet high and was attached to the Temple by cedar beams.

11. The Lord said to Solomon:

12. “If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.

13. I will live among the Israelites in this Temple, and I will never leave my people Israel.”

14. So Solomon finished building the Temple.

15. The inside walls were covered from floor to ceiling with cedar boards. The floor was made from pine boards.

16. A room thirty feet long was built in the back part of the Temple. This room, called the Most Holy Place, was separated from the rest of the Temple by cedar boards which reached from floor to ceiling.

17. The main room, the one in front of the Most Holy Place, was sixty feet long.

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