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The king also made pouring vessels, in number eighty thousand, and
a hundred thousand golden vials, and twice as many silver vials: of golden
dishes, in order therein to offer kneaded fine flour at the altar, there
were eighty thousand, and twice as many of silver. Of large basons also,
wherein they mixed fine flour with oil, sixty thousand of gold, and twice
as many of silver. Of the measures like those which Moses called the Hin
and the Assaron, (a tenth deal,) there were twenty thousand
of gold, and twice as many of silver. The golden censers, in which they
carried the incense to the altar, were twenty thousand; the other censers,
in which they carried fire from the great altar to the little altar, within
the temple, were fifty thousand. The sacerdotal garments which belonged
to the high priest, with the long robes, and the oracle, and the precious
stones, were a thousand. But the crown upon which Moses wrote [the name
of God], 1was only one, and hath remained to this very day. He also made ten
thousand sacerdotal garments of fine linen, with purple girdles for every
priest; and two hundred thousand trumpets, according to the command of
Moses; also two hundred thousand garments of fine linen for the singers,
that were Levites. And he made musical instruments, and such as were invented
for singing of hymns, called ,Nablee and Cindree, [psalteries
and harps,] which were made of electrum, [the finest brass,] forty thousand.
1 Of the golden plate on the High priests forehead that was in being in the days of Josephus, and a century or two at least later, see the note on Antiq. B. III. ch.vii. sect. 6.
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