6. The flooring on the bottom level held five cubits in width, and the middle floor was six cubits in width, and the third floor held seven cubits in width. Then he positioned beams on the house all around the outside, in such a way that they would not be fastened to the walls of the temple.
7. Now the house, while it was being built, was made from cut and finished stones. And so, neither mallet, nor chisel, nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
8. The door at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level.
9. And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar.
10. And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood.
11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying: