⁸ And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.

¹ And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.