Shlomo built his [own] house in thirteen years, and he completed his whole house.

He built the house of the Forest of Lebanon. It was one hundred amohs long, fifty amohs wide and thirty amohs high; on fours rows of cedar columns and cut beams of cedar on the columns.

It was covered with cedar above, on top of the boards that were on the columns. There were forty five [columns], fifteen to a row.

There were three rows of windows, and each window faced the other window three times.

And all the entrances and doorposts were square, as was the window; and each window faced the other window three times.

He made an entrance hall of columns. Its length was fifty amohs, and its width was thirty amohs. There was [another] entrance hall above them, and columns and support beams upon them.

And an entrance hall for the throne where he would judge, he made an entrance hall of judgement. He covered the floor with cedar from one side of the foundation to the other side.

His house where he dwelt, which stood in a different courtyard, from within the entrance hall, was built in the same fashion. And the house he intended to build for the daughter of Pharoah, whom Shlomo had married, would be built like this entrance hall.

All these [structures] were of heavy stones according to the dimensions of standard cut stones. They were sawed with a saw from inside and from outside, from the foundation to the ceiling, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

The foundation was of precious stones, huge stones, stones of ten amohs, and stones of eight amohs.

And above it were precious stones according to the dimensions of standard cut stones, and cedars.

And the great courtyard all around was of three rows of cut stones, and a row of cut cedar planks. So too the was the courtyard of the Beis Hamikdosh—the inner one, and the entrance hall of the Beis Hamikdosh.

And Shlomo haMelech sent and brought Chirom from Tsor.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naftali, and his father was a man of Tsor, a coppersmith. He was filled with the wisdom and understanding and the knowledge [skill] to perform all types of copper-work. He came to Shlomo ha Melech and did all his work.

He formed the two columns of copper, eighteen amohs was the height of one [each] column, and a line of twelve amohs was the circumference of the second [each] column.

He made two crown shapes to set upon the tops of the columns, they were cast from copper. One crown was five amohs high, and the second crown was five amohs high.

Branches designed like net [mesh] work, wreaths made like chains, for the crowns that were upon the tops of the columns; seven [of these] were for the one crown and seven were for the other crown.

And he made the columns and two rows around on the one net [mesh] work to cover the crowns that were on the top of the pomengranates, and he did the same for the other crown.

The crowns that were on the top of the columns in the entrance hall, were made like lilies four amohs.

There were also crowns above on the two columns opposite the belly that was on the side of the net [mesh] work; and two hundred pomegranates in rows all around on each crown.

He set up the columns in the entrance hall of the Sanctuary. and he set up the right-side column and called it Yochin, and he set up the left hand column and called it Boaz.

The top of the columns was designed like lilies, and the work of the columns was completed.

He made the “sea” of cast metal, ten amohs from rim to rim. It was circular all around and it was five amohs high. A line of thirty amohs [the circumference] would encompass it all around.

There were knobs beneath its rim all around encircling it, ten to an amoh, surrounding the sea all around. The knobs were in two rows, cast together with it [the sea itself.]

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The sea was set upon them above, and all their hind parts were inward.

Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was made like the rim of a cup [designed] with flowers of lilies; it contained two thousand bas.

And he made ten bases of copper, four amohs was the length of one base, and four amohs was its width, and three amohs was its height.

The bases were made in the following manner: They had frames and frames between the rungs.

And on the frames that were between the rungs there were lions, oxen and cherubs; and on the rungs there was a base above; and beneath the lions and oxen were thin strips of metal joined together.

Each base had four copper wheels and copper bars; and its four corners had shoulders. The shoulders were cast beneath the basin, [and] at the side of each were thin strips of metal joined together.

And the rim of the vessel was inside the crown, and rose above it an amoh. The rim was round, made like the base, and was one and a half amohs, and there were engravings on the rim as well. The frames [of the bases] were square, not round.

The four wheels were underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of one [each] wheel was one and a half amohs.

The wheels were made like the wheels of a chariot; their axles, their hubs, their rims and their spokes were all cast [as one piece].

There were four shoulders on the four corners of one [each] base; the shoulders were part of the base itself.

At the top of the base, [was a frame] half an amoh high circular all around; and on the top of the base were its axles and its frames. They were all of one piece.

He engraved on the plates, on its axles, and on its frames, cherubs, lions and palm trees; and pairs attached to each other all around.

This is how he made the ten bases, all cast in the same manner, all were of the same dimension, one size for all of them.

He made ten copper [wash] basins. Each basin could hold forty bas, and each basin was four amohs; one basin on each base of the ten bases.

And he set up the bases, five on the right side of the Beis Hamikdosh, and five on the left side of the Beis Hamikdosh; And he placed the sea [away] from the right side of the Beis Hamikdosh eastward, facing southward.

And Chirom made the [wash] basins, the rakes and the bowls. And so Chirom finished doing all the work that he did for Shlomo ha Melech in the House of Adonoy.

[He made] the two columns and the bowls of the crowns that were on the top of the columns were two; [also] two net [mesh] works to cover the two the bowls of the crown that were on top of the columns.

[There were] four hundred pomegranates for the two net [mesh] works; two rows of pomegranates for each net-work, to cover the two bowes of the crowns that were on top of the columns.

[There were] ten bases, and ten wash basins on the bases.

[There was] one sea, and twelve oxen beneath the sea;

And the pots, and the rakes, and the bowls and all these vessels that Chirom made for Shlomo ha Melech, in the House of Adony, were of pure, bright copper.

In the Jordan plains, the king cast them, in the thick clay, between Sukkos and Tzorson.

Shlomo gave up the weighing of these vessels because there were so very many; thus, the weight of the copper was undetermined.

And Shlomo made all the vessels that were in the House of Adonoy; the Golden Altar, and the Table upon which was the Show-Bread, were [made of] gold.

And the Menorahs, five on the right and five on the left, before the Kodesh Kedoshim were of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps and the tongs were of gold.

The Sippos, the Mezamros and the bowls, the spoons and the fire pans were of pure gold. The keys for the doors of the inner Beis Hamikdosh, the Holy of Holies, the doors of the Beis Hamikdosh, the Heichal [itself] were of gold.

And all the work was completed that Shlomo ha Melech had done in the House of Adonoy; and then Shlomo brought in the sacred things of his father, Dovid, the silver, the gold and the vessels, [and] he put them in the vaults of the House of Adonoy.