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1 Kings 6:30-37 English Standard Version (ESV)

30. The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.

31. For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.

32. He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

33. So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,

34. and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

35. On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.

36. He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.

37. In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.