] there were twenty thousand of
gold, and twice as many of silver. The golden censers, in which they
carried the incense to the altar, were twenty thousand; the other
censers, in which they carried fire from the great altar to the little
altar, within the temple, were fifty thousand. The sacerdotal garments
which belonged to the high priest, with the long robes, and the oracle,
and the precious stones, were a thousand. But the crown upon which Moses
wrote [the name of God],]was only one, and hath remained to this very
day. He also made ten thousand sacerdotal garments of fine linen, with
purple girdles for every priest; and two hundred thousand trumpets,
according to the command of Moses; also two hundred thousand garments
of fine linen for the singers, that were Levites. And he made musical
instruments, and such as were invented for singing of hymns, called
Nablee and Cindree, [psalteries and harps,] which were made of electrum,
[the finest brass,] forty thousand.

9. Solomon made all these things for the honor of God, with great
variety and magnificence, sparing no cost, but using all possible
liberality in adorning the temple; and these things he dedicated to the
treasures of God. He also placed a partition round about the temple,
which in our tongue we call Gison, but it is called Thrigcos by the
Greeks, and he raised it up to the height of three cubits; and it was
for the exclusion of the multitude from coming into the temple, and
showing that it was a place that was free and open only for the priests.
He also built beyond this court a temple, whose figure was that of
a quadrangle, and erected for it great and broad cloisters; this was
entered into by very high gates, each of which had its front exposed to
one of the [four] winds, and were shut by golden doors. Into this temple
all the people entered that were distinguished from the rest by being
pure and observant of the laws. But he made that temple which was beyond
this a wonderful one indeed, and such as exceeds all description in
words; nay, if I may so say, is hardly believed upon sight; for when
he had filled up great valleys with earth, which, on account of their
immense depth, could not be looked on, when you bended down to see them,
without pain, and had elevated the ground four hundred cubits, he made
it to be on a level with the top of the mountain, on which the temple
was built, and by this means the outmost temple, which was exposed to
the air, was ev