4. the front porch along the width of the house was also twenty cubits, and it was twenty cubits high. He covered its interior with pure gold.
5. The nave he overlaid with cypress wood and overlaid that with fine gold, embossing on it palms and chains.
6. He also covered the house with precious stones for splendor; the gold was from Parvaim.
7. The house, its beams and thresholds, as well as its walls and its doors, he overlaid with gold, and he engraved cherubim upon the walls.
8. He also made the room of the holy of holies. Its length corresponded to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width was also twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold to the amount of six hundred talents.
9. The weight of the nails was fifty gold shekels. The upper chambers he likewise overlaid with gold.
10. For the room of the holy of holies he made two cherubim of carved workmanship, which were then covered with gold.
11. The wings of the cherubim spanned twenty cubits: one wing of each cherub, five cubits in length, extended to a wall of the house, while the other wing, also five cubits in length, touched the corresponding wing of the other cherub.
12. The wing of the cherub, five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, five cubits, was joined to the wing of the other cherub.