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Exodus 26:31

Exodus 26:31

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purple: Argaman:, a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura:, or murex:, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple.

scarlet: Tolaâth:; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex: kind, like the cochineal: worm in the Opuntia: of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic Kermez:, which also denotes this colour.

cherubims shall it be made:

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