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Then there was a 'maeander' a cubit in height, with its surface. wrought out of precious stones of many colours, displaying great artistic effort and beauty.

In the middle, small shields which were made of different precious stones, placed alternately, and varying in kind, not less than four fingers broad, enhanced the beauty of their appearance.

And about the rims they wove a wreath of ivy and myrtle and olive in relief work and inserted precious stones in it.

There was no stint of precious stones, for not less than five thousand were used and they were all of large size.

We were greatly astonished, when we saw Eleazar engaged in the ministration, at the mode of his dress, and the majesty of his appearance, which was revealed in the robe which he wore and the precious stones upon his person.

A great quantity of spices and precious stones and gold is brought into the country by the Arabs.

For one hour of thy Faith is more precious than all days and years.

And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and 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 vessels of the tabernacle.

They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm, And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them.

Well made, and very precious wealth of men

and he hears a word and does not reveal (it). Behold, this is precious before Shamash. But one who drinks wine and does not give it to others

Even to gods is it precious, to it for ever belongs the kingdom, in heaven it is treasured up, for the lord of holiness has exalted it.

Glorious is a king to see, like Shamash, and precious is his sovereignty to those who walk on the earth in tranquillity.

Let those who are instructed, after the teacher ceaseth, pray apart from the faithful and go out, so that the faithful may learn,’ when the presbyter or deacon readeth the New [Testament] or Gospels. Let the faithful women stand in the church by themselves and the female catechumens by themselves apart from the faithful [women]. But all the [women] apart from the men; the girls also apart, each according to her order. The men on the right and the women on the left; the faithful virgins first, and the [women] who are being instructed to virginity behind them. After the prayer let the female catechumens give the Peace to one another; also men" to men; also women to women. Let every woman cover her head with her hair also. Let the women becomingly and decorously show their modesty in their adornment, and let them not be adorned with plaited hair or with [precious] stones, lest the young men who are in the church be caught, but with modesty and knowledge. But if not, let them be instructed by the widows who sit in front. But if they rebelliously resist, let the bishop reprove them.