1 Kings 6:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

New Living Translation
The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.

English Standard Version
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

Berean Study Bible
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

New American Standard Bible
The house, that is, the main room in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

NASB 1995
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

NASB 1977
And the house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

Amplified Bible
The [rest of the] house, that is, the temple in front of the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long.

Christian Standard Bible
The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was sixty feet long.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long.

Contemporary English Version
The temple's main room was 18 meters long, and it was in front of the most holy place.

Good News Translation
The room in front of the Most Holy Place was 60 feet long.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The 60-foot-long room at the front of the temple served as the main hall.

International Standard Version
The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 cubits long.

NET Bible
The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

New King James Version
And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.

King James 2000 Bible
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

New Heart English Bible
In front of the temple sanctuary was sixty-eight feet and eleven inches.

World English Bible
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

American King James Version
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

American Standard Version
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle , was forty cubits long .

A Faithful Version
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits.

Darby Bible Translation
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].

English Revised Version
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fourtie cubites long.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But the house, that is the temple before it, was fourtie cubites long.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But the house of the temple before the quere was fortye cubites longe:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And [this area of] the house was forty by the cubit; it [is the area of] the temple before My face.

Young's Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.

Smith's Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house; it the temple before.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The house was forty cubits, that is, the inner temple.

Lamsa Bible
And the house, that is, the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the house, that is, the temple before [the Sanctuary], was forty cubits long.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the temple was forty cubits in extent,
















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