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1 Kings 6:4-9 New English Translation (NET)

4. He made framed windows for the temple.

5. He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

6. The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

7. As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

8. The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.

9. He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.

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