Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
The main hall of the temple was forty cubits {in front of the inner sanctuary},
New American Standard Bible
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty
King James Version
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
Holman Bible
The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place,
International Standard Version
The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 cubits long.
A Conservative Version
And the house, that is, the temple in front of [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
American Standard Version
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle , was forty cubits long .
Amplified
The [rest of the] house, that is, the temple in front of the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long.
Bible in Basic English
And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
Darby Translation
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
Julia Smith Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house; it the temple before.
King James 2000
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
Modern King James verseion
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the first house, that is to say, the body of the temple, was forty cubits long.
NET Bible
The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.
New Heart English Bible
In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
The Emphasized Bible
but, forty cubits, was the house itself, - the same, was the temple, before the oracle.
Webster
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
World English Bible
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
Youngs Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 6:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon Builds The Temple For Yahweh
16 He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the {most holy place}. 17 The main hall of the temple was forty cubits {in front of the inner sanctuary}, 18 with the cedar within the inner house [having] carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It [was] entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible.