1 Kings 6:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ The rooms touched the temple wall, but their beams were not built into that wall. {That temple wall became thinner at the top.} So the wall which made one side of those rooms was thinner than the wall below it. The rooms on the bottom floor were 5 cubits [36] wide. The rooms on the middle floor were 6 cubits [37] wide. The rooms above that were 7 cubits [38] wide.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ the nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The first story's side chambers were five cubits wide, those of the middle story six cubits wide, and of the third story seven cubits wide; for around the outside of the wall of the house he made offsets in order that the supporting beams should not be thrust into the walls of the house.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.

Common English Bible

⁶ The lower walls were seven and a half feet wide. At the second floor the walls were nine feet wide, and at the third floor they were ten and a half feet wide. He made niches around the outside of the temple so the beams wouldn’t be inserted into the temple walls.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The flooring on the bottom level held five cubits in width, and the middle floor was six cubits in width, and the third floor held seven cubits in width. Then he positioned beams on the house all around the outside, in such a way that they would not be fastened to the walls of the temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in breadth; and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth; and the third door was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.

1 Kings 6:6 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 6:5

Then Solomon built a row of rooms around the main part of the temple. These rooms were built on top of each other. {This row of rooms was three stories tall.}

1 Kings 6:7

The workers used large stones to build the walls. The workers cut the stones at the place where they got them out of the ground. So there was no noise of hammers, axes, or any other iron tools in the temple.

2 Chronicles 3:1

Solomon began building the Lord’s temple {\cf2\super [22]} at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah is the place where the Lord came to David, Solomon’s father. Solomon built the temple on the place that David had made ready. This place was at the threshing floor {\cf2\super [23]} that had belonged to Araunah {\cf2\super [24]} the Jebusite.

Ezekiel 41:6

The side rooms were on three different floors, one above the other. There were 30 rooms on each floor. The wall of the temple was built with ledges. The side rooms rested on these ledges but were not attached to the temple wall itself.