6:2a The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long,

A cubit was an ancient measurement equal to the distance from a man’s elbow to the tips of his fingers.

The house he made for Yahweh was sixty cubits long,
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Yahweh’s temple was about thirty meters in length.

6:2b twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high/tall.
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It was about ten meters in width and fifteen meters in height.

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