Thematic Bible: Representations of, on the


Thematic Bible



(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:


And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

The flowers and the vessels for the lights and the instruments used for them, were all of gold; it was the best gold.


It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.

It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain