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      of  the wall which [was] for  the side-chamber without
      [was] five cubits; and that which was left, the place of the
      side-chamber, belonging to  the  house.  And  between
      the  chambers is  a breadth of  twenty cubits  about  the
      house  all round.  And  the doors of the side-chambers
      [were] toward the place left, one door toward the north,
      And another door toward the south;  and the breadth of
      the place  that was  left  was  five  cubits  round  about.
      And the building that was  before the  separate place at
      the end westward [was] seventy cubits  broad;  and  the
      wall  of  the  building  [was]  five  cubits  thick  round
      About, and its length ninety cubits.  So he measured the
      house, an hundred cubits ;  and  the  separate  place, and
      the building with its walls, a  hundred cubits long;  and
      the breadth of  the  face  of  the  house, and of  the  sepa­
      rate  place toward  the  east, a hundred cubits.  And he
      measured  the  length  of  the  building over against  the
      separate place which was behind it, and  its galleries on
      the  one  side, and on the other side, one hundred cubits,
      with  the inner temple, and the porches of  the court, the
      <loor-posts,  and  the  latticed windows, and  the galleries
      round about  on  their  three  sides, opposite to the door­
      posts, a  wainscoting  of  wood  all  round, and  from  the
      ground  up  to  the  windows,  and  the  windows  were
      covered.  Over above the door, even to the inner house
      .and the outer [a wainscoting], and on all the wall round
      about,  within and without, by measures.  And [it was]
      made with cherubim  and palm-trees, a palm-tree  being
      between  two  cherubim,  and  a  cherub  had  two  faces;
      And  a man’s face was towards the palm-tree on  the  one
      iside, and a young  lion’s  face towards  the palm-tree  on
      the  other  side ;  [it was]  made  through  all  the house
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