6:29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, 1 he carved 2 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.
1 sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.
2 tn Heb “carved engravings of carvings.”
3 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
4 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
5 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”
5 tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.
6 tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”