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建造圣殿(A)

所罗门在耶路撒冷,在耶和华向他父亲大卫显现过的摩利亚山上,就是在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾场上,大卫预备的地方,开工建造耶和华的殿。 所罗门执政后第四年二月初二开始建造。 所罗门建造 神殿宇的根基是这样:按古时的尺寸,长二十七公尺,宽九公尺。 殿前走廊长九公尺,与殿的宽度相等;高九公尺(“高九公尺”原文作“高一百二十”;现参照古译本修译);里面贴上纯金。 大殿的墙都盖上松木,又贴上精金,又在上面刻上棕树和链子。 又用宝石装饰殿墙,十分华美;金子都是巴瓦音的金子。 正殿和殿的栋梁、门槛、墙壁和门扇,都贴上金子;墙上刻上基路伯。

建造至圣所(B)

他又建造了至圣所,长九公尺,和殿的宽度相等,宽度也是九公尺;里面都贴上精金,共用了二十公吨金子。 钉子共重五百七十克金子。阁楼也贴上金子。

10 在至圣所里,雕刻了两个基路伯,都包上金子。 11 两个基路伯的翅膀共长九公尺;一个基路伯的一边翅膀长两公尺两公寸,触着殿墙;另一边翅膀也长两公尺两公寸,和另一个基路伯的翅膀相接。 12 另一个基路伯的一边翅膀也长两公尺两公寸,触着殿墙;另一边的翅膀也长两公尺两公寸,和前一个基路伯的翅膀相接。 13 这两个基路伯的翅膀都张开,共长九公尺;这两个基路伯都面向殿内站立。 14 所罗门又用蓝色紫色朱红色线和细麻做幔子,上面绣上基路伯。

建造两根柱子(C)

15 在殿的前面又做了两根柱子,高十五公尺半,每根柱上面的柱顶,高两公尺两公寸。 16 又做了像项链(按照《马索拉文本》,“像项链”作“在内殿”,意思不明确,可能是“像项链”的误写)的链子,安放在柱头上;又做了石榴一百个,安放在链子上。 17 他把这两根柱子立在殿前,一根在左面,一根在右面;右面的叫雅斤,左面的叫波阿斯。

1-4 So Solomon broke ground, launched construction of the house of God in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, the place where God had appeared to his father David. The precise site, the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, had been designated by David. He broke ground on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his rule. These are the dimensions that Solomon set for the construction of the house of God: ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. The porch in front stretched the width of the building, that is, thirty feet; and it was thirty feet high.

4-7 The interior was gold-plated. He paneled the main hall with cypress and veneered it with fine gold engraved with palm tree and chain designs. He decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvaim. Everything was coated with gold veneer: rafters, doorframes, walls, and doors. Cherubim were engraved on the walls.

8-9 He made the Holy of Holies a cube, thirty feet wide, long, and high. It was veneered with six hundred talents (something over twenty-two tons) of gold. The gold nails weighed fifty shekels (a little over a pound). The upper rooms were also veneered in gold.

10-13 He made two sculptures of cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, for the Holy of Holies, both veneered with gold. The combined wingspread of the side-by-side cherubim (each wing measuring seven and a half feet) stretched from wall to wall, thirty feet. They stood erect facing the main hall.

14 He fashioned the curtain of violet, purple, and crimson fabric and worked a cherub design into it.

15-17 He made two huge free-standing pillars, each fifty-two feet tall, their capitals extending another seven and a half feet. The top of each pillar was set off with an elaborate filigree of chains, like necklaces, from which hung a hundred pomegranates. He placed the pillars in front of The Temple, one on the right, and the other on the left. The right pillar he named Jakin (Security) and the left pillar he named Boaz (Stability).

Then Sh’lomo began to build the Bais Hashem at Yerushalayim in Mt Moriyah, where Hashem appeared unto Dovid Avihu, in the makom (place) which Dovid had prepared in the goren (threshing floor) of Ornan the Yevusi.

And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his [Sh’lomo’s 970-930 B.C.E.] reign.

Now these are the foundations which Sh’lomo laid for the building of the Bais HaElohim. The length by cubits using the middah harishonah (old standard) was threescore cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

And the Ulam that was in the front of the Bais (porch or vestibule in front of the Holy Place), the length of it was according to the width of the Bais, twenty cubits, and the height was twenty, and he overlaid it within with zahav tahor.

And the Bais HaGadol he paneled with cypress, which he overlaid with zahav tov, and carved thereon timorim (palm trees) and sharsherot (chainwork).

And he decorated the Bais with precious stones for tiferet (beauty), and the zahav was zahav from Parvayim.

He overlaid also the Bais, the ceiling beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the daletot (doors) thereof, with zahav; and carved keruvim on the walls.

And he made the Bais Kodesh HaKadashim, the length whereof was according to the width of the bais, twenty cubits long, and the width thereof twenty cubits, and he overlaid it with zahav tov of six hundred talents.

And the weight of the masmerot (nails) was fifty shekels of zahav. And he overlaid the upper rooms with zahav.

10 And in the Bais Kodesh HaKadashim he made two keruvim of ma’aseh tza’atzu’im (sculpture work), and overlaid them with zahav.

11 And the wings of the keruvim were twenty cubits long; one wing of the one keruv was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the Bais; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other keruv.

12 And one wing of the other keruv was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the Bais; and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other keruv.

13 The wings of these keruvim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces turned inward.

14 And he made the Parochet of blue wool, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought keruvim thereon.

15 Also he made before the Bais two [freestanding] Ammudim (pillars) of thirty and five cubits high [53 feet], and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 And he made sharsherot in the Devir, and put them on the rosh of the Ammudim; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the sharsherot.

17 And he erected the Ammudim before the Heikhal, one on the right, and the other on the left; and called the shem of that on the right Yachin, and the shem of that on the left Boaz.