¹Ipapo Soromoni akatanga kuvaka imba yaJehovha paJerusaremu pagomo reMoria, pakanga pazviratidza Jehovha kuna Dhavhidhi baba vake, akagadzira ipapo pakanga parairwa naDhavhidhi paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi.

¹Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [Jehovah] appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

²Akatanga kuvaka pazuva repiri romwedzi wechipiri, negore rechina rokubata kwake ushe.

²And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

³Zvino ndidzo nheyo dzakavambwa naSoromoni pakuvaka imba yaMwari; kureba kwayo, kana vachienzanisa namakubhiti akare, makubhiti ana makumi matanhatu, noupamhi makubhiti makumi maviri.

³Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

⁴berere, raiva pamberi peimba, kureba kwaro kwakanga kwakafanana noupamhi bweimba, makubhiti makumi maviri, nokukwirira kwaro makubhiti ane zana namakumi maviri, akaifukidza nechomukati nendarama yakaisvonaka.

⁴And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

⁵Akafukidza imba huru namatanda omusipiresi, akafukidzwa nendarama yakaisvonaka, akavezera pamusoro pawo muchindwe namaketani.

⁵And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

⁶Akashongedza imba ukomba hwamabwe anokosha; ndarama yakanga iri ndarama yeParivhaimi.

⁶And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

⁷Akafukidzawo imba nendarama, namatanda ayo, nezvikumbaridzo zvayo, namadziro ayo, namagonhi ayo; akavezera makerubhi pamadziro.

⁷He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

⁸Akavakawo imba tsvene-tsvene; kureba kwayo kwakanga kwakafanana nohupamhi bweimba, makubhiti ana makumi maviri, noupamhi hwayo makubhiti ana makumi maviri; akaifukidza nendarama yakaisvonaka yakasvika matarenda* mazana matanhatu.

⁸And he made the most holy house: the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

⁹Kurema kwembambo kwakasvika mashekeri endarama ana makumi mashanu. Akafukidza makamuri okumusoro nendarama.

⁹And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

¹⁰Paimba tsvene-tsvene akaita makerubhi maviri zviri zvifananidzo zvakavezwa; akaafukidza nendarama.

¹⁰And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

¹¹Mapapiro amakerubhi akasvika makubhiti ana makumi maviri pakureba kwawo; bapiro rerimwe rakanga rina makubhiti mashanu, richisvika kumadziro eimba; nerimwe bapirowo rakanga rina makubhiti mashanu, richisvika kubapiro rerimwe kerubhi.

¹¹And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

¹²Nebapiro rerimwe kerubhi rakanga rina makubhiti mashanu, richisvika kumadziro eimba; nerimwe bapirowo rakanga rina makubhiti mashanu, richibatana nebapiro rerimwe kerubhi.

¹²And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.

¹³Mapapiro amakerubhi awa akanga akatambanudzwa, akasvika makubhiti makumi maviri; akanga amire namakumbo awo, zviso zvawo zvakaringira kumba.

¹³The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

¹⁴Akaitawo chidzitiro nezvakarukwa zvitema, nezvishava, nezvitsvuku, nomucheka wakaisvonaka-naka; akasonerapo makerubhi.

¹⁴And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.

¹⁵Akaitawo pamberi peimba mbiru mbiri; kukwirira kwadzo kwakasvika makubhiti ana makumi matatu namashanu, nomusoro wakange uri pamusoro peimwe neimwe wakasvika makubhiti mashanu.

¹⁵Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

¹⁶Akaitawo maketani panzvimbo tsvene, akaaisa pamisoro yembiru; akaita matamba ane zana, akaaisa pamaketani.

¹⁶And he made chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

¹⁷Akamisa mbiru mbiri pamberi petemberi, imwe kurudyi, imwe kuruboshwe; yokurudyi akaitumidza zita rinonzi Jakini, neyokuruboshwe akaitumidza Bhowasi.

¹⁷And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.