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Now nine of these gates were on every side covered over with gold
and silver, as were the jambs of their doors and their lintels; but there
was one gate that was without the [inward court of the] holy house, which
was of Corinthian brass, and greatly excelled those that were only covered
over with silver and gold. Each gate had two doors, whose height was severally
thirty cubits, and their breadth fifteen. However, they had large spaces
within of thirty cubits, and had on each side rooms, and those, both in
breadth and in length, built like towers, and their height was above forty
cubits. Two pillars did also support these rooms, and were in circumference
twelve cubits. Now the magnitudes of the other gates were equal one to
another; but that over the Corinthian gate, which opened on the east over
against the gate of the holy house itself, was much larger; for its height
was fifty cubits; and its doors were forty cubits; and it was adorned after
a most costly manner, as having much richer and thicker plates of silver
and gold upon them than the other. These nine gates had that silver and
gold poured upon them by Alexander, the father of Tiberius. Now there were
fifteen steps, which led away from the wall of the court of the women to
this greater gate; whereas those that led thither from the other gates
were five steps shorter.
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