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The narrator lists the dimensions of the temple.

Solomon began to build

Solomon would have commanded his workers to do the building. AT: "Solomon commanded his workers to begin building" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

480th ... fourth

These are the ordinal forms of 480 and 4. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal)

in the month of Ziv, which is the second month

"Ziv" is the name of the second month of the Hebrew calendar. It is during the last part of April and the first part of May on Western calendars. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-hebrewmonths and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)

sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high

"60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high." A cubit is 46 centimeters. This can be written used modern measures. AT: "27.6 meters long, 9.2 meters wide, and 13.8 meters high" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bdistance)

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