3 Kings 7:36
He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass. and in the corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man standing, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round about.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sculpsit quoque in tabulatis illis quæ erant ex ære, et in angulis, cherubim, et leones, et palmas, quasi in similitudinem hominis stantis, ut non cælata, sed apposita per circuitum viderentur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְפַתַּ֤ח עַל הַלֻּחֹת֙ יְדֹתֶ֔יהָ וְעַל֙ ומסגרתיה כְּרוּבִ֖ים אֲרָי֣וֹת וְתִמֹרֹ֑ת כְּמַֽעַר אִ֥ישׁ וְלֹי֖וֹת סָבִֽיב
Haydock's commentary
Palm-trees were not expressed, ver. 29. All was in relievo, and represented in its natural posture. (Calmet)
About. One would have taken them to be alive, they were so well executed. Hebrew, "according to the proportion of every one, and added round about," (Haydock) projecting. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.