¹⁷ The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty ^[a]cubits long. ¹⁸ There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of ^(A)gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. ¹⁹ Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.