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And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,

לְחוּרָ֥ם (לְ) le. “<to>”

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the inv

לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת (לַ) la. “to”וּלְפַתֵּ֙חַ֙ (לְ) le. “to”וְלַחְשֹׁ֖ב (לַ) la “to”לוֹ֙ (ל) l “to”

So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

לַעֲבָדָֽיו׃ (לַ) la. “to”

And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

לְךָ֛ (לְ) le. “to”

Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

לְהַעֲבִ֥יד (לְ) le. “to”

Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

לִבְנ֤וֹת (לִ) li “to”לְדָוִ֣יד (לְ) le. “to”

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

לִבְנ֞וֹת (לִ) li “to”לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃ (לְ) le. “of”

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

לִבְנ֖וֹת (לִ) li “to”

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

לְתִפְאָ֑רֶת (לְ) le. “for”

And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

לְכִכָּרִ֖ים (לְ) le. “to”

And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת (לְ) le. “of”לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים (לִ) li “to”

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.

לְאַמּ֣וֹת (לְ) le. “to”לְקִ֣יר (לְ) le. “<to>”לִכְנַ֖ף (לִ) li “<to>”

And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

לְקִ֣יר (לְ) le. “<to>”לִכְנַ֖ף (לִ) li “to”

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house.

לַבָּֽיִת׃ (לַ) la. “[were] to the”

And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

לִפְנֵ֤י (לִ) li “<to>”

And under it was a design of flowers all round it, ten to a cubit, circling the water-vessel in two lines; they were made from liquid metal at the same time as the water-vessel.

ל֜וֹ (ל֜) l “<to> <the>”

It was supported on twelve oxen, three facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east, the water-vessel resting on top of them; their back parts were all turned to the middle of it.

מִלְמָ֑עְלָה (לְ) l. “to”

And he made ten washing-vessels, putting five on the right side and five on the left; such things as were used in making the burned offering were washed in them; but the great water-vessel was to be used by the priests for washing themselves.

לְרָחְצָ֣ה (לְ) le. “to”לְרָחְצָ֥ה (לְ) le. “to”לַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים (לַ) la. “[was] for the”

Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.

לָעֲזָרָ֛ה (לָ) la. “for the”

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

לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ (לַ) la. “to”לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ (לַ) la. “for the”

The two pillars, and the two crowns on the tops of the pillars, and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars;

לְכַסּ֗וֹת (לְ) le. “to”

And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars.

לִשְׁתֵּ֣י (לִ) li “for”לַשְּׂבָכָ֣ה (לַ) la. “for the”לְכַסּ֗וֹת (לְ) le. “to”

All the pots and the spades and the meat-hooks and their vessels, which Huram, who was as his father, made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.

לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ (לַ) la. “for the”לְבֵ֣ית (לְ) le. “for”

So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.

לָרֹ֣ב (לָ) la. “to”

And the supports for the lights with their lights, to be burning in the regular way in front of the inmost room, of the best gold;

לְבַעֲרָ֧ם (לְ) le. “to”לִפְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “<to>”