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The Doors

31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made olive wood doors with five-sided frames.[a] 32 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold. He shaped sheets of hammered gold to cover the cherubim and the palm trees.

33 He did the same for the entrance to the front room. It had door posts of olive wood that were four-sided

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:31 Or with five recessed frames, that is, the doorframe had five recessed sills, like doorways within a doorway. If the doorposts were five-sided, each doorpost may have been a pentagon, or each doorway may have had a peaked upper side.