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Exodus 36 describes the Tabernacle veil woven from blue, purple, and scarlet yarn with cherubim worked into it. 2 Chronicles describes Solomon’s Temple with the same kind of veil with cherubim, modeling the Temple on the earlier wilderness sanctuary.
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1000+ CE
Exodus 36:35
Hebrew Bible
34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold. 35 He made the special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 36 He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.
2 Chronicles 3:14
Hebrew Bible
13 The combined wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet. They stood upright, facing inward. 14 He made the curtain out of blue, purple, crimson, and white fabrics, and embroidered on it decorative cherubim. 15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length of 52½ feet, with each having a plated capital 7½ feet high.
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Notes and References
... The Chronicler does not include the text of 1 Kings 6:31-32, which describes the doors that separated the Holy Place from the inner sanctum, the Holy of Holies (דביר). Instead, he anachronistically adds that Solomon's Temple had a veil/drape/curtain (פרכת; 2 Chronicles 3:14), which separated the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. This reflects on the one hand what is mentioned in the Torah regarding the Tabernacle (Exodus 26:31-33; 36:35), and on the other hand what existed in the Second Temple. So the Chronicler creates continuity and consistency between the Israelite sanctuaries for all times, implying that they all had a veil: the Tabernacle of the wilderness period, the First Temple of the monarchic period, and the Second Temple of his own era, the Persian period. ...
Kalimi, Isaac
Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel
(p. 284) Cambridge University Press, 2018
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