1 Kings 6:5-10

New American Standard Bible

^5 (A)Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the main room and the ^[a](B)inner sanctuary; so he made ^(C)side chambers all around. ⁶ The lowest story was ^[b]five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he ^[c]made offsets in the wall of the house all around so that the beams would not ^[d]be inserted into the walls of the house.

^7 (D)The house, while it was being built, was built of stone finished at the quarry, and neither hammer, nor axe, nor any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.

⁸ The doorway for the ^[e]lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by a winding staircase to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. ⁹ So ^(E)he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and ^[f]planks of cedar. ¹⁰ He also built the stories against the whole house, each ^[g]five cubits high; and they ^[h]were attached to the house with timbers of cedar.