SIL Translator’s Notes on 1 Kings 6:3

6:3a The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple

The entryway to its great hall was/went along its entire width/front and was twenty cubits long.
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There was an area in front of the temple hall that stretched/ran across the front wall. This area was ten meters long

6:3b and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.

It extended ten cubits out from ⌊the front wall of⌋ the house.
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and five meters wide.

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