1 Kings 6:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ For the house he made windows with recessed frames.^{[a] 5} He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around. ⁶ The lowest story^[b] was five cubits wide, the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.