These are Solomon’s foundations[a] for building God’s temple: the length[b] was ninety feet,[c] and the width thirty feet.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:3 Tg reads The measurements which Solomon decreed
  2. 3:3 Lit length—cubits in the former measure
  3. 3:3 Lit 60 cubits
  4. 3:3 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4,8,11,13

Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

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Inside the Temple

41 Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs;(A) on each side the width of the jamb was 10½ feet.[a][b]

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Footnotes

  1. 41:1 LXX; MT reads jambs; they were 10½ feet wide on each side—the width of the tabernacle
  2. 41:1 Lit six cubits, also in vv. 3,5

41 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

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