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15 He paneled the inside walls of the building with cedar boards, from the floor of the building to the rafters[a] of the ceiling. He covered the inside walls with wood. He also covered the floor of the building with boards of fir wood.

16 Thirty feet from the back wall of the building he built a wall of cedar boards from the floor to the ceiling. He built this wall inside the building to create an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

17 The front part of the building became a main room sixty feet long.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:15 The reading rafters (qoroth) is the reading of the Greek Old Testament. The Hebrew text reads walls (qiroth).

15 He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling,(A) and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.(B) 16 He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.(C) 17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits[a] long.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:17 That is, about 60 feet or about 18 meters