The entrance for the lowest[a] story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third. (A)So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar. 10 He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:8 Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew middle

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