9. The weight of the nails was fifty gold shekels. The upper chambers he likewise overlaid with gold.
10. For the room of the holy of holies he made two cherubim of carved workmanship, which were then covered with gold.
11. The wings of the cherubim spanned twenty cubits: one wing of each cherub, five cubits in length, extended to a wall of the house, while the other wing, also five cubits in length, touched the corresponding wing of the other cherub.
12. The wing of the cherub, five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, five cubits, was joined to the wing of the other cherub.
13. The combined wingspread of the two cherubim was thus twenty cubits. They stood upon their own feet, facing toward the nave.