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They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
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Verse 3. Threads. Hebrew “wires to work it in the blue … with cunning work.” The ancients had the art of beating gold into thin plates, with which they adorned the horns of their victims, and so forth Æneid iv. See Numbers 16:48. Calmet.
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