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Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
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Verse 24. Ten cubits. All was not therefore ornamented. Prot. “there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit … the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.” Bible.—The signification of Pekehim is not ascertained, whether it be “apples, balls,” and so forth or perhaps a corrupt word for Bokrim, “oxen,” or “ox heads;” as 2 Paral. (4:3,) clearly explains it. Calmet.—There also it is insinuated, that the carvings commenced only towards the bottom, where the circumference was reduced to 10 cubits. Menochius.
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