Bible in Basic English
"And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long."
— 1 Kings 6:17, Bible in Basic English
“And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.”
“The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].”
“The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.”
“And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.”
So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)
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.
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.
And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)
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.
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.