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Nave entrance has two cypress doors, each with two folding leaves; carved cherubim, palms and flowers with gold overlay.
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1 Kings 6:33-35

Folding doors of cypress

Building the House of Yahweh · 1 Kings 6

Story guide: Two cypress doors, each with two folding leaves, open into the nave, carved with cherubim, palms, and flowers under gold. The passage does not give the exact carving layout.

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33And so he made for the entrance of the nave doorposts of olivewood, four-sided.

34and two doors of cypress wood; the one door had two folding leaves, and the second door had two folding leaves.

35He carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, fitted over the carved work.

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