Ecclesiasticus 50:3
“In his dayes the cisterne to receiue water being in compasse as the sea, was couered with plates of brasse.”
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Ecclesiasticus 50:3 Context
1Simon the high priest the sonne of Onias, who in his life repaired the house againe, and in his dayes fortified the Temple: 2And by him was built from the foundation the double height, the high fortresse of the wall about the Temple. 3In his dayes the cisterne to receiue water being in compasse as the sea, was couered with plates of brasse. 4He tooke care of the Temple that it should not fall, and fortified the citie against besieging. 5How was he honoured in the midst of the people, in his comming out of the Sanctuarie?
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In his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as the sea, was covered with plates of brass:
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