^{5 Ref} And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

⁶ The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

^{7 Ref} (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

^{8 Ref} The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

^{9 Ref} So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

¹⁰ And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.