1 Kings 6:20
Good News Translation
This inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels.

New Revised Standard Version
The interior of the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.

New American Bible
In front of the inner sanctuary (it was twenty cubits long, twenty wide, and twenty high, and he covered it with pure gold), he made an altar of cedar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

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Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

twenty cubits

1 Kings 5:2,3 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying: . . .

pure [heb] shut up

1 Kings 6:22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.

1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of proposition should be set:

Exodus 30:1-3 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood. . . .

Context
The Temple's Interior
19And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.21And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:19
And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

1 Kings 6:21
And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

2 Chronicles 3:7
And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.

Ezekiel 41:4
And he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, before the face of the temple: and he said to me: This is the holy of holies.

Ezekiel 41:22
The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before the Lord.

1 Kings 6:19
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