4 Jerusalem. And I beheld, and lo! four angels standing at the four corners of the city, each of (2BA) 5 them holding a torch of fire in his hands. And another angel began to descend from heaven, (2BA) 6 and said unto them: 'Hold your lamps, and do not light them till I tell you. For I am first sent to speak a word to the earth, and to place in it what the Lord the Most High has commanded me And I saw him descend into the Holy of holies, and take from thence the veil, and the holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy (2BA)
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