The Chambers
1 Kings 6:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- KJV
- And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- WEB
- He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.
- ASV
- And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- LSV
- And he builds the couch against all the house, its breadth [is] five cubits, and it takes hold of the house by cedar-wood.
- YLT
- And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits [is] its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.
- DBY
- And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.
- DRC
- And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.
- GNV
- And he built the galleries vpon al the wall of the house of fiue cubites height, and they were ioyned to the house with beames of cedar.
- JPS
- And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- LXXE
- And he made the partitions through all the house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.
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- Written (Ketiv): הַיָּצוֹעַ (“the bed”). Read aloud (Qere): הַיָּצִ֙יעַ֙ (“the extension”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads הַיָּצִ֙ועַ֙; read aloud (Qere) reads הַיָּצִ֙יעַ֙ (“the extension”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיִּ֤בֶן אֶת־היצוע עַל־כָּל־הַבַּ֔יִת חָמֵ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת קֽוֹמָת֑וֹ וַיֶּאֱחֹ֥ז אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת בַּעֲצֵ֥י אֲרָזִֽים׃Read aloud as (qere): הַיָּצִ֨יעַ֙
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τοὺς ἐνδέσμους, διʼ ὅλου τοῦ οἴκου πέντε ἐν πήχει τὸ ὕψος αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνέσχε τὸν σύνδεσμον ἐν ξύλοις κεδρίνοις.
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