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16 A room thirty feet long was built in the back part of the Temple. This room, called the Most Holy Place, was separated from the rest of the Temple by cedar boards which reached from floor to ceiling. 17 The main room, the one in front of the Most Holy Place, was sixty feet long. 18 Everything inside the Temple was covered with cedar, which was carved with pictures of flowers and plants. A person could not see the stones of the wall, only the cedar.

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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.(A) 17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits[a] long. 18 The inside of the temple was cedar,(B) carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

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Footnotes

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