Handbreadth: A Measure (About Four Inches)

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  1. And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
  2. It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
  3. It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
  4. You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
  5. Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
  6. And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
  7. The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
  8. Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.