Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of skillful work shall you make them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Twisted, for greater strength, with double threads. (Du Hamel)
Diversified Hebrew, "cherubim wrought by a skilful workman. "A cherubic work is one extremely diversified, and wonderful; representing birds, flowers, monsters; either in gold, wood, painting, or tapestry. When it is done with a needle, it is styled rokom, "feathers "(plumarium opus.) But when the variety of colours is done with the loom, being more ingenious, the Hebrew call it éssob, "of an inventor. "Such were these curtains.