BRAGADAYJAH 1000
The pillars and Chapiters
The temple was supported by two pillars of brass each
eighteen cubits high and each surrounded by a line of twelve cubits each. And
Hiram made two chapiters of molten brass to sit upon the chapiters each five
cubits high. And nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work were placed on
the top of the pillars, seven on each chapiter. And each chapiter resting on
the pillars was crowned with two rows of pomegranates two hundred in a row. And
the chapiters which were on top of the pillars were adorned with lily-work four
cubits along the porch. And the pillars are set up in the porch of the temple
and he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin and he set up the
left porch and called its name Boaz. And on top of the pillars were lily-work
and so was the work of the pillars finished. And he made a molten sea ten
cubits from the one brim to the other, and a line of thirty cubits was set all
around it. And under the brim of it and round about it there were knobs ten in
a cubits surrounding the sea; and the knobs were cast in two rows. It stood
upon twelve oxen, three looking towards the North, three looking towards the
West, three looking towards the South, and three looking towards the East. And the
sea was set upon them and all their hinder parts were inward. And it was a hand
breath thick and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup with flowers of
lilies; it contained two thousand baths.
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