Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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6 He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.
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He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
7 And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.
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He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.
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He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
9 He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
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The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
10 He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
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For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
11 The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.
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The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.
12 In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.
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Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.
13 So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without.
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The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.
14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
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He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
15 He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.
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For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.
16 He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.
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He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
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