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who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
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Verse 14. Wide. Hebrew “measured;” large, and well-proportioned.—Vermilion, (cynopide.) This colour was invented in the town of Pontus, and was used for statues, and so forth Pliny xxxiii. 6. and xxxv. 6. Wisd. 13:14. Calmet.—Hebrew shashar ( Bible.) may mean indigo. Jun. Calmet.
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