1KI 6:23 Parallel View

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ULT And he made in the inner room two cherubs of wood of oil; ten cubits was its height.

UST Inside the very holy place they made from olive tree wood large statues of two creatures with wings. Each one was four and one-half meters tall.

BSB § In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

OEB And in the inner room he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

WEB In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim[fn] of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

6:23 “Cherubim” is plural of “cherub”, an angelic being.

NET In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high.

LSV And he makes two cherubim of the oil-tree within the oracle; their height [is] ten cubits;

FBV He had two cherubim made out of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, each one ten cubits tall.

T4T Inside the Very Holy Place, they made from olive tree wood large statues of two creatures with wings. Each one was 15 feet tall.

LEB He made two cherubim of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, ten cubits high.

BBE In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

MOF No MOF 1KI book available

JPS And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.

ASV And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.

DRA And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.

YLT And he maketh within the oracle two cherubs, of the oil-tree, ten cubits [is] their height;

DBY And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

RV And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

WBS And within the oracle he made two cherubim of olive tree, each ten cubits high.

KJB ¶ And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.[fn]
(¶ And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.)

6.23 olive: or, oily: Heb. trees of oil

BB And within the quier he made two Cherubims of Oliue tree ten cubites hie.
(And within the quier he made two Cherubims of Olive tree ten cubites hie.)

GNV And within the oracle he made two Cherubims of oliue tree, ten cubites hie.
(And within the oracle he made two Cherubims of olive tree, ten cubites hie. )

CB He made also in the quere two Cherubins ten cubites hye of Olyue tre.
(He made also in the quere two Cherubins ten cubites high of Olyue tre.)

WYC And he made in `Goddis answeryng place twey cherubyns of the trees of olyues, of ten cubits of heiyte;
(And he made in `Goddis answeryng place two cherubyns of the trees of olives, of ten cubits of heiyte;)

LUT Er machte auch im Chor zween Cherubim, zehn Ellen hoch, von Ölbaumholz.
(Er made also in_the Chor zween Cherubim, ten Ellen hoch, from Ölbaumholz.)

CLV Et fecit in oraculo duos cherubim de lignis olivarum, decem cubitorum altitudinis.[fn]
(And fecit in oraculo duos cherubim about lignis olivarum, ten cubitorum altitudinis.)

6.23 Cherubim de lignis. ID., ibid., cap. 13. Angelicæ dignitatis vocabulum est, et dicitur singulariter cherub, pluraliter cherubim. Per cherubim ergo angelica ministeria quæ conditori semper assistunt in cœlis, possunt intelligi

6.23 Cherubim about lignis. ID., ibid., cap. 13. Angelicæ dignitatis vocabulum it_is, and it_is_said singulariter cherub, pluraliter cherubim. Per cherubim ergo angelica ministeria which conditori semper assistunt in cœlis, possunt intelligi

BRN And he made in the oracle two cherubs of ten cubits measured size.

BrLXX Καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐν τῷ δαβὶρ δύο χερουβὶμ δέκα πήχεων μέγεθος ἐσταθμωμένον·
(Kai epoiaʸsen en tōi dabir duo ⱪeroubim deka paʸⱪeōn megethos estathmōmenon; )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

Solomon made

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_made in/on/at/with,inner_sanctuary two_of cherubim tree/wood_of olive ten cubits high,him )

Solomon would have commanded his workers to do this work. Alternate translation: “Solomon commanded them to make”

olivewood

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_made in/on/at/with,inner_sanctuary two_of cherubim tree/wood_of olive ten cubits high,him )

wood from an olive tree

Note 2 topic: translate-bdistance

ten cubits

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_made in/on/at/with,inner_sanctuary two_of cherubim tree/wood_of olive ten cubits high,him )

A cubit is 46 centimeters. Alternate translation: “4.6 meters”

Parallel 1KI 6:23