1 KINGS 6:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.”
"The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long." — The *main hall* (*ha-bayit ha-chitzon*, the outer house) measured *forty cubits*, leaving *twenty cubits* for the *inner sanctuary* (sixty minus twenty). The *ratio* of outer to inner hall is *2:1*, suggesting *graduated progression* toward increasing holiness.
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