1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.4 And for the house he made windows, with network across.5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.7 (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)8 The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.13 And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.20 And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.21 Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.22 Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).23 In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;24 With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.25 The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.26 The two of them were ten cubits high.27 These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house, one touching one wall and one the other, while their other wings were touching in the middle.28 These winged ones were plated over with gold.29 And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.30 And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.31 For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.32 On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.33 Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:34 And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.35 These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.37 In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

1 Factum est ergo quadringentesimo et octogesimo anno egressionis filiorum Israël de terra Ægypti, in anno quarto, mense Zio (ipse est mensis secundus), regni Salomonis super Israël, ædificari cœpit domus Domino. 2 Domus autem quam ædificabat rex Salomon Domino, habebat sexaginta cubitos in longitudine, et viginti cubitos in latitudine, et triginta cubitos in altitudine. 3 Et porticus erat ante templum viginti cubitorum longitudinis, juxta mensuram latitudinis templi : et habebat decem cubitos latitudinis ante faciem templi. 4 Fecitque in templo fenestras obliquas. 5 Et ædificavit super parietem templi tabulata per gyrum, in parietibus domus per circuitum templi et oraculi, et fecit latera in circuitu. 6 Tabulatum quod subter erat, quinque cubitos habebat latitudinis, et medium tabulatum sex cubitorum latitudinis, et tertium tabulatum septem habens cubitos latitudinis. Trabes autem posuit in domo per circuitum forinsecus, ut non hærerent muris templi. 7 Domus autem cum ædificaretur, de lapidibus dolatis atque perfectis ædificata est : et malleus, et securis, et omne ferramentum non sunt audita in domo cum ædificaretur. 8 Ostium lateris medii in parte erat domus dextræ : et per cochleam ascendebant in medium cœnaculum, et a medio in tertium. 9 Et ædificavit domum, et consummavit eam : texit quoque domum laquearibus cedrinis. 10 Et ædificavit tabulatum super omnem domum quinque cubitis altitudinis, et operuit domum lignis cedrinis. 11 Et factus est sermo Domini ad Salomonem, dicens : 12 Domus hæc, quam ædificas, si ambulaveris in præceptis meis, et judicia mea feceris, et custodieris omnia mandata mea, gradiens per ea, firmabo sermonem meum tibi, quem locutus sum ad David patrem tuum : 13 et habitabo in medio filiorum Israël, et non derelinquam populum meum Israël.14 Igitur ædificavit Salomon domum, et consummavit eam. 15 Et ædificavit parietes domus intrinsecus tabulatis cedrinis : a pavimento domus usque ad summitatem parietum, et usque ad laquearia, operuit lignis cedrinis intrinsecus : et texit pavimentum domus tabulis abiegnis. 16 Ædificavitque viginti cubitorum ad posteriorem partem templi tabulata cedrina, a pavimento usque ad superiora : et fecit interiorem domum oraculi in Sanctum sanctorum. 17 Porro quadraginta cubitorum erat ipsum templum pro foribus oraculi. 18 Et cedro omnis domus intrinsecus vestiebatur, habens tornaturas et juncturas suas fabrefactas, et cælaturas eminentes : omnia cedrinis tabulis vestiebantur : nec omnino lapis apparere poterat in pariete. 19 Oraculum autem in medio domus, in interiori parte fecerat, ut poneret ibi arcam fœderis Domini. 20 Porro oraculum habebat viginti cubitos longitudinis, et viginti cubitos latitudinis, et viginti cubitos altitudinis : et operuit illud atque vestivit auro purissimo : sed et altare vestivit cedro. 21 Domum quoque ante oraculum operuit auro purissimo, et affixit laminas clavis aureis. 22 Nihilque erat in templo quod non auro tegeretur : sed et totum altare oraculi texit auro. 23 Et fecit in oraculo duos cherubim de lignis olivarum, decem cubitorum altitudinis. 24 Quinque cubitorum ala cherub una, et quinque cubitorum ala cherub altera : id est, decem cubitos habentes, a summitate alæ unius usque ad alæ alterius summitatem. 25 Decem quoque cubitorum erat cherub secundus : in mensura pari, et opus unum erat in duobus cherubim, 26 id est, altitudinem habebat unus cherub decem cubitorum, et similiter cherub secundus. 27 Posuitque cherubim in medio templi interioris : extendebant autem alas suas cherubim, et tangebat ala una parietem, et ala cherub secundi tangebat parietem alterum : alæ autem alteræ in media parte templi se invicem contingebant. 28 Texit quoque cherubim auro. 29 Et omnes parietes templi per circuitum sculpsit variis cælaturis et torno : et fecit in eis cherubim, et palmas, et picturas varias, quasi prominentes de pariete, et egredientes. 30 Sed et pavimentum domus texit auro intrinsecus et extrinsecus. 31 Et in ingressu oraculi fecit ostiola de lignis olivarum, postesque angulorum quinque. 32 Et duo ostia de lignis olivarum : et sculpsit in eis picturam cherubim, et palmarum species, et anaglypha valde prominentia : et texit ea auro, et operuit tam cherubim quam palmas, et cetera, auro. 33 Fecitque in introitu templi postes de lignis olivarum quadrangulatos, 34 et duo ostia de lignis abiegnis altrinsecus : et utrumque ostium duplex erat, et se invicem tenens aperiebatur. 35 Et sculpsit cherubim, et palmas, et cælaturas valde eminentes : operuitque omnia laminis aureis opere quadro ad regulam. 36 Et ædificavit atrium interius tribus ordinibus lapidum politorum, et uno ordine lignorum cedri. 37 Anno quarto fundata est domus Domini in mense Zio : 38 et in anno undecimo, mense Bul (ipse est mensis octavus), perfecta est domus in omni opere suo, et in universis utensilibus suis : ædificavitque eam annis septem.