38 and in the eleventh year, in the lunar month of Bul,* that is, the eighth month, the house was finished+ as regards all its details and all its plan;+ so that he was seven years at building it.

16 So Solʹo·mon’s work was all in a prepared+ state from the day of the foundation-laying of the house of Jehovah until it was finished.+ [So] the house of Jehovah was complete.+