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In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

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.

וַיִּתֵּ֨ן (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּפְרְשׂוּ֮ (וַֽ) va “and”וַתִּגַּ֤ע (וַ) va. “and”

These winged ones were plated over with gold.

וַיְצַ֥ף (וַ) va “and”

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.

וְקָלַ֣ע (וְ) ve. “and”וְצִפָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַיָּ֛רֶד (וַ) va “and”

These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

וְקָלַ֤ע (וְ) ve. “and”וְצִפָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ (וַ) va “and”

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.

וַיִּבְנֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

וַיְכַ֖ל (וַ) va “and”

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

וַיִּ֜בֶן (וַ) va “and”

Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֥ח (וַ) va “and”

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

וַ֠יִּמָּלֵא (וַ֠) Va “and”וַיָּבוֹא֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֖עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

וַיָּ֛צַר (וַ) va “and”

And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.

וַיַּ֖עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

וַיָּ֙קֶם֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֜קֶם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֤א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֙קֶם֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֥א (וַ) va “and”

The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.

וַתִּתֹּ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”

And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

וַיַּ֧עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.

וַיְפַתַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”

And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases.

וַיַּ֛עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south.

וַיִּתֵּן֙ (וַ) va “and”

And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord:

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיְכַ֣ל (וַ) va “and”

The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.

וַיַּנַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”

And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.

וַתִּשְׁלַם֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַיָּבֵ֨א (וַ) va “and”

And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.

וַיִּקָּ֨הֲל֜וּ (וַ) va “and”