1 No ano quatrocentos e oitenta depois que saíram da terra do Egito os filhos de Israel, no quarto ano do reinado de Salomão sobre Israel, no mês de Zive, que é o segundo mês, começou-se a edificar a casa de Jeová.
2 A casa que Salomão edificou para Jeová, tinha sessenta cúbitos de comprido, vinte de largo e trinta de alto.
3 O pórtico diante do templo da casa estendia-se por vinte cúbitos no sentido da largura da casa, e projetava-se por dez cúbitos à frente da mesma.
4 Para a casa fez janelas de gelosias fixas.
5 Contra a parede da casa, tanto do templo como do oráculo, edificou andares ao redor e fez câmaras laterais ao redor:
6 o andar de baixo tinha cinco cúbitos de largo, o do meio seis e o terceiro sete, porque pelo lado de fora na parede da casa fez encostas, para que as vigas não estribassem nas paredes da casa.
7 Ao edificar-se a casa, empregavam-se pedras preparadas na pedreira; não se ouviu na casa martelo, nem machado nem instrumento algum de ferro, enquanto ela se edificava.
8 A porta para as câmaras laterais do meio estava à banda direita da casa; subiam por uma escada para o andar do meio, e do andar do meio para o terceiro.
9 Assim edificou a casa e a acabou, cobrindo-a com traves e pranchas de cedro.
10 Os andares que edificou contra a casa toda eram de cinco cúbitos de altura, e os ligou à casa com madeira de cedro.
11 Então veio a palavra de Jeová a Salomão, dizendo:
12 Quanto a esta casa que tu estás edificando, se andares nos meus estatutos, e executares os meus juízos, e guardares todos os meus mandamentos, andando neles; estabelecerei contigo a minha palavra que falei a Davi, teu pai.
13 Habitarei no meio dos filhos de Israel, e não abandonarei o meu povo de Israel.
14 Salomão edificou a casa, e acabou-a.
15 Guarneceu as paredes da casa por dentro com tábuas de cedro, cobrindo-as por dentro com madeiras desde o soalho da casa até as traves do teto. Também cobriu o soalho com tábuas de cipreste.
16 Do fundo da casa a vinte cúbitos fez com tábuas de cedro uma divisão desde o soalho até as traves; e preparou-a por dentro para o oráculo, para o santo dos santos.
17 A casa, isto é, o templo fronteiro ao oráculo, tinha quarenta cúbitos de comprido.
18 A casa por dentro estava forrada de cedro, lavrado de botões e de flores abertas: tudo era cedro; não se via pedra.
19 No meio da casa na parte mais interior preparou um oráculo, para pôr nele a arca da aliança de Jeová.
20 Dentro do oráculo havia um espaço de vinte cúbitos de comprimento, vinte de largura e vinte de altura, que cobriu de ouro puro. Cobriu de cedro o altar.
21 Salomão cobriu também de ouro puro a casa por dentro; e fez passar cadeias de ouro por dentro do oráculo, que cobriu de ouro.
22 Cobriu inteiramente de ouro a casa toda; também cobriu de ouro o altar todo que pertencia ao oráculo.
23 No oráculo fez dois querubins de pau de oliveira, cada um tendo dez cúbitos de alto.
24 Uma asa do querubim tinha cinco cúbitos, e a outra tinha cinco; desde a extremidade duma asa até a extremidade da outra havia dez cúbitos.
25 O outro querubim também tinha dez cúbitos: ambos os querubins eram da mesma medida e da mesma forma.
26 Um querubim tinha dez cúbitos de alto, assim também o outro.
27 Pôs os querubins dentro da casa interior; as asas dos querubins estendiam-se, de sorte que a dum tocava numa parede, e a do outro tocavam noutra parede; e as suas asas tocavam uma a outra no meio da casa.
28 Cobriu de ouro os querubins.
29 Em volta de todas as paredes da casa, tanto na divisão mais interior como na mais exterior, fez de entalhe querubins, palmeiras e flores abertas.
30 Também cobriu de ouro o soalho da casa, tanto na divisão mais interior como na mais exterior.
31 Para a entrada do oráculo fez de pau de oliveira portas: a verga da porta e as umbreiras constituiam a quinta parte da parede.
32 Assim fabricou de pau de oliveira duas portas; e nelas fez de entalhe querubins, palmeiras e flores abertas, que cobriu de ouro. Também estendeu o ouro sobre os querubins e sobre as palmeiras.
33 Assim para a entrada do templo fez também de pau de oliveira umbreiras que constituiam a quarta parte da parede;
34 e de madeira de cipreste fez duas portas. As duas folhas de cada porta fechavam-se uma sobre outra.
35 Nelas esculpiu querubins, palmeiras e flores abertas; e cobriu-as de ouro ajustado às figuras entalhadas.
36 Edificou o átrio interior de três ordens de pedras lavradas, e duma ordem de vigas de cedro.
37 Lançou-se o fundamento da casa de Jeová no quarto ano, no mês de Zive.
38 No undécimo ano, no mês de Bul, que é o oitavo mês, foi acabada a casa em todas as suas partes, e tal como devia ser. Levou Salomão sete anos para edificá-la.
1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.
2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.
4 And for the house he made windows, with network across.
5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:
6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.
7 (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)
8 The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.
9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.
13 And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.
14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)
15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.
16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.
17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)
19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.
20 And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.
21 Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.
22 Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).
23 In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;
24 With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.
25 The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.
26 The two of them were ten cubits high.
27 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.
28 These winged ones were plated over with gold.
29 And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.
30 And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.
31 For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.
32 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.
33 Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:
34 And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.
35 These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.
36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
37 In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.
38 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.