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Its length corresponded to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width was also twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold to the amount of six hundred talents.<a id="ren14003008-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14003008-e">e</a> <span id="v14003009" class="ver">9</span>The weight of the nails was fifty gold shekels. The upper chambers he likewise overlaid with gold.</p> <p><span id="v14003010" class="ver">10</span><a id="ren14003010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14003010-f">f</a> For the room of the holy of holies he made two cherubim of carved workmanship, which were then covered with gold. <span id="v14003011" class="ver">11</span>The wings of the cherubim spanned twenty cubits: one wing of each cherub, five cubits in length, extended to a wall of the house, while the other wing, also five cubits in length, touched the corresponding wing of the other cherub. <span id="v14003012" class="ver">12</span>The wing of the cherub, five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, five cubits, was joined to the wing of the other cherub. <span id="v14003013" class="ver">13</span>The combined wingspread of the two cherubim was thus twenty cubits. They stood upon their own feet, facing toward the nave. <span id="v14003014" class="ver">14</span>He made the veil<a id="rfn14003014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn14003014-1">*</a> of violet, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and had cherubim embroidered upon it.<a id="ren14003014-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14003014-g">g</a></p> <p><span id="v14003015" class="ver">15</span><a id="ren14003015-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en14003015-h">h</a> In front of the house he set two columns thirty-five cubits high; the capital of each was five cubits. <span id="v14003016" class="ver">16</span>He devised chains in the form of a collar with which he encircled the capitals of the columns, and he made a hundred pomegranates which he set on the chains. <span id="v14003017" class="ver">17</span>He set up the columns to correspond with the nave, one for the right side and the other for the left, and he called the one to the right Jachin and the one to the left Boaz.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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