before it was # 11_1KI_06_07  And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither_ so that there was neither hammer nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. ## And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. 
before it was # 11_1KI_06_17  And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long]. ## And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long]. 
before it was # 02_EXO_12_34  And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. ## And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 
before it was # 01_GEN_02_05  And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew_ for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground. ## And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.