World English Bible
"The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long]."
— 1 Kings 6:17, World English Bible
“And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.”
“And 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.”
“And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.”
“And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.”
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.