Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

3 Kings 6:19-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

19. And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

20. Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

21. And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.

23. And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.

24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.