5
The larger house he covered with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold and embossed with palm trees and chains.
6
He also decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvayim,
7
overlaying the house and its beams, thresholds, walls and doors with gold and carving k'ruvim on the walls.
8
Then he made the Especially Holy Place; its length matched the width of the house, thirty-five feet, and its width was thirty-five feet. He overlaid it with twenty tons of fine gold.
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The weight of the nails was one-and-a-quarter pounds of gold, and he overlaid the upper rooms with gold.