Then he made the most holy place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple, nine metres, and its width was nine metres. He overlaid it with twenty tonnes of fine gold.
Hang the curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the curtain, so the curtain will make a separation for you between the holy place and the most holy place.
Then he lined nine metres of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place.
He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 10.6 metres, and the width, 10.6 metres. And he said to me, ‘This is the most holy place.’