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1 Kings 6:2-6 Good News Bible (GNB)

2. Inside it was 27 metres long, nine metres wide, and 13.5 metres high.

3. The entrance room was 4.5 metres deep and nine metres wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself.

4. The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.

5. Against the outside walls, on the sides and the back of the Temple, a three-storied annexe was built, each storey 2.2 metres high.

6. Each room in the lowest storey was 2.2 metres wide, in the middle storey 2.7 metres wide, and in the top storey 3.1 metres wide. The temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it.