14
He fashioned the curtain of violet, purple, and crimson fabric and worked a cherub design into it.
15
He made two huge free-standing pillars, each fifty-two feet tall, their capitals extending another seven and a half feet.
16
The top of each pillar was set off with an elaborate filigree of chains, like necklaces, from which hung a hundred pomegranates.
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