Liber II Paralipomenon, 3

1. Et coepit Salomon aedificare domum Domini in Ierusalem in monte Moria, qui demonstratus fuerat a David patre eius, in loco, quem paraverat David in area Ornan Iebusaei.

1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Mori'ah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

2. Coepit autem aedificare mense secundo anno quarto regni sui.

2. He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

3. Et hae sunt mensurae, quas statuit Salomon, ut aedificaret domum Dei: longitudinis cubiti in mensura prima sexaginta, latitudinis cubiti viginti.

3. These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

4. Porticum vero ante frontem, quae tendebatur in longum, iuxta mensuram latitudinis domus, cubitorum viginti; porro altitudo centum viginti cubitorum erat. Et deauravit eam intrinsecus auro mundissimo.

4. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house; and its height was a hundred and twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.

5. Domum quoque maiorem texit tabulis ligneis abiegnis et laminas auri obryzi affixit per totum; scalpsitque in eis palmas et quasi catenulas se invicem complectentes.

5. The nave he lined with cypress, and covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.

6. Stravit quoque pavimentum templi pretiosissimo marmore decore multo.

6. He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parva'im.

7. Porro aurum erat de Parvaim, de cuius laminis texit domum, et trabes eius et postes et parietes et ostia; et caelavit cherubim in parietibus.

7. So he lined the house with gold -- its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

8. Fecit quoque domum sancti sanctorum: longitudinem iuxta latitudinem domus cubitorum viginti et latitudinem similiter viginti cubitorum; et laminis auri optimi texit eam quasi talentis sescentis.

8. And he made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

9. Sed et pro clavis usus est auro ponderis quinquaginta siclorum. Cenacula quoque texit auro.

9. The weight of the nails was one shekel to fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10. Fecit etiam in domo sancti sanctorum cherubim duos opere statuario et texit eos auro.

10. In the most holy place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.

11. Alae cherubim viginti cubitis extendebantur, ita ut una ala haberet cubitos quinque et tangeret parietem domus, et altera quinque cubitos habens alam tangeret alterius cherub.

11. The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;

12. Similiter cherub alterius ala quinque habebat cubitos et tangebat parietem, et ala eius altera quinque cubitorum alam cherub alterius contingebat.

12. and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.

13. Igitur alae utriusque cherubim expansae erant et extendebantur per cubitos viginti; ipsi autem stabant erectis pedibus, et facies eorum erant versae ad exteriorem domum.

13. The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; the cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.

14. Fecit quoque velum ex hyacintho, purpura, cocco et bysso et intexuit ei cherubim.

14. And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it.

15. Ante fores etiam templi duas columnas, quae triginta et quinque cubitos habebant altitudinis; porro capita earum quinque cubitorum.

15. In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.

16. Necnon et quasi catenulas in torque, et superposuit eas capitibus columnarum; malogranata etiam centum, quae catenulis interposuit.

16. He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17. Ipsas quoque columnas posuit ante faciem templi, unam a dextris et alteram a sinistris; eam, quae a dextris erat, vocavit Iachin et, quae ad laevam, Booz.

17. He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Bo'az.