3 Kings 6:16
And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ædificavitque viginti cubitorum ad posteriorem partem templi tabulata cedrina, a pavimento usque ad superiora : et fecit interiorem domum oraculi in Sanctum sanctorum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 6:17
- καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν τοὺς εἴκοσι πήχεις ἀπ᾽ ἄκρου τοῦ τοίχου, τὸ πλευρὸν τὸ ἓν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐδάφους ἕως τῶν δοκῶν· καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐκ τοῦ δαβεὶρ εἰς τὸ ἅγιον τῶν ἁγίων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּבֶן֩ אֶת עֶשְׂרִ֨ים אַמָּ֜ה מירכותי הַבַּ֨יִת֙ בְּצַלְע֣וֹת אֲרָזִ֔ים מִן הַקַּרְקַ֖ע עַד הַקִּיר֑וֹת וַיִּ֤בֶן לוֹ֙ מִבַּ֣יִת לִדְבִ֔יר לְקֹ֖דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִֽׁים
Haydock's commentary
The inner house of the oracle. That is, the sanctuary, which he separated from the other part of the temple, with this partition of cedar, instead of the veil, which in the tabernacle of Moses hung before the sanctuary. (Challoner)
It was a square of 20 cubits, extending from the western end. (Haydock)
Hither none but the high priest was allowed to enter, and he but once a year. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.