6. Also, he paved the floor of the temple with the most precious marble, of great beauty.
7. Now the gold, with which he covered in layers the house and its beams and posts and walls and doors, was highly refined. And he engraved cherubim on the walls.
8. Also, he made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its length, in accord with the width of the temple, was of twenty cubits. And its width, similarly, was of twenty cubits. And he covered it with layers of gold, of about six hundred talents.
9. Then he also made nails of gold, such that each nail weighed fifty shekels. Also, he covered the upper rooms in gold.
10. Now he also made, in the house of the Holy of Holies, two cherubim as a work of statues. And he covered them with gold.
11. The wings of the cherubim extended for twenty cubits, such that one wing had five cubits and it touched the wall of the house, and the other, having five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.
12. Similarly, the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, and it touched the wall, and his other wing of five cubits also touched the wing of the other cherub.