He also made the curtain of blue thread, purple wool, crimson,

and fine fabric, and incorporated cherub designs into it.

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Then he made two pillars at the front of the house, 35 cubits in

length, and the capital on top of each pillar was five cubits. 16 And he
made chains, like necklaces, and put them on the tops of the pillars,
and he made 100 pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17 He set
up the pillars in front of the temple, one to the right and one to the
left; he named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left
Boaz.
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4 Then he made the copper altar, 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide,

and 10 cubits high.
He made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, 10 cubits
from brim to brim and 5 cubits high, and it took a measuring line 30
cubits long to encircle it. 3 And there were ornamental gourds under it,
completely encircling it, ten to a cubit all around the Sea. The gourds
were in two rows and were cast in one piece with it. 4 It stood on 12
bulls, 3 facing north, 3 facing west, 3 facing south, and 3 facing east;
and the Sea rested on them, and all their hindquarters were toward
the center. 5 And its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was
made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. The reservoir could
hold 3,000 bath measures.
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Further, he made ten basins for washing and put five to the right
and five to the left. They would rinse in them the things used for the
burnt offering. But the Sea was for the priests for washing.
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