<p class="poetry">He says, &#8220;I will build myself a large palacep> <p class="poetry">with spacious upper rooms.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">He cuts windows in its walls,p> <p class="poetry">panels it<n id="1" /> with cedar, and paints its rooms red.<n id="2" />p>

to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple, he led me out by the gate which faces east and measured all around.

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging<n id="1" /> report of the land they had investigated, saying, &#8220;The land that we passed through<n id="2" /> to investigate is a land that devours<n id="3" /> its inhabitants.<n id="4" /> All the people we saw there<n id="5" /> are of great stature.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;And these are the measurements of the altar:<n id="1" /> Its base<n id="2" /> is 1¾ feet<n id="3" /> high,<n id="4" /> and 1¾ feet<n id="5" /> wide, and its border nine inches<n id="6" /> on its edge. This is to be the height<n id="7" /> of the altar.