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1 Kings 6:26
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KJ21
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
ASV
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
AMP
the height of the one cherub was ten cubits, as was the other.
AMPC
The height of one cherub ten cubits, as was the other.
BRG
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
CSB
The first cherub’s height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub’s.
CSBA
The first cherub’s height was 4.5 metres and so was the second cherub’s.
CEB
The height of both winged creatures was fifteen feet.
CJB
The height of the one keruv was seventeen-and-a-half feet, likewise that of the other.
CEV
and four and a half meters across. They had two wings, and the wings were just over two meters long.
DARBY
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the other cherub.
DRA
That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.
ERV
Both Cherub angels were the same size and built the same way. Each one had two wings. Each wing was 5 cubits long. From the end of one wing to the end of the other wing was 10 cubits. And each Cherub angel was 10 cubits tall.
EASY
Each cherub was 4.4 metres high.
EHV
One cherub was fifteen feet tall, and so was the other cherub.
ESV
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
ESVUK
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
EXB
each was ·fifteen feet [L ten cubits] tall.
GNV
For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other Cherub.
GW
Each was 15 feet high.
GNT
Both were of the same size and shape. Each had two wings, each wing 7½ feet long, so that the distance from one wing tip to the other was 15 feet.
HCSB
The first cherub’s height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub’s.
ICB
And each was 15 feet tall.
ISV
the height of one cherub being ten cubits, as was the height of the other.
JUB
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
KJV
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
AKJV
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
LSB
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
LEB
The height of the first cherub was ten cubits and so was the second cherub.
TLB
Within the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two statues of Guardian Angels made from olive wood, each fifteen feet high. They were placed so that their outspread wings reached from wall to wall, while their inner wings touched each other at the center of the room; each wing was 7-1/2 feet long, so each Angel measured fifteen feet from wing tip to wing tip. The two Angels were identical in all dimensions, and each was overlaid with gold.
MSG
Then he made two cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, from olivewood. Each was fifteen feet tall. The outstretched wings of the cherubim (they were identical in size and shape) measured another fifteen feet. He placed the two cherubim, their wings spread, in the Inner Sanctuary. The combined wingspread stretched the width of the room, the wing of one cherub touched one wall, the wing of the other the other wall, and the wings touched in the middle. The cherubim were gold-plated.
MEV
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
NOG
Each was 15 feet high.
NABRE
the first cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the second.
NASB
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
NASB1995
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
NCB
Each of the cherubim was ten cubits high.
NCV
each was fifteen feet tall.
NET
Each cherub stood 15 feet high.
NIRV
Each cherub was 15 feet high.
NIV
The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
NIVUK
The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
NKJV
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
NLV
Each of the cherubim was almost three times taller than a man.
NLT
each was 15 feet tall.
NRSVA
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
NRSVACE
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
NRSVCE
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
NRSVUE
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
OJB
The height of the one keruv was ten cubits, and so was it of the other keruv.
RGT
The height of one Cherub was ten cubits and so was the other Cherub.
RSV
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
RSVCE
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
TLV
the height of the one cheruv was ten cubits and so the other cheruv.
VOICE
The other creature had the same measurements and shape: a wingspan 15 feet across and 15 feet high.
WEB
One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
WYC
that is, one cherub had the height of ten cubits, and in like manner the tother cherub.
YLT
the height of the one cherub [is] ten by the cubit, and so [is] the second cherub;
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