He engraved all the walls of the house round about with the engraving of cherubim, and [he sculptured] palm trees within and without [the house].

And for the doorway of the oracle he made doors of juniper wood; [there were] porches in a four-fold way.

And its borders [were] cherubim, and lions, and palm trees, upright, each [was] joined in front [and] within and round about.

And he gilded the house, and its [inner] walls, and the doorposts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

And [there were] secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within. And on the porch [there were] palm trees on this side and on that side.

And its windows, and its porches, and its palm-trees, were according to [the dimensions of] the gate looking eastward; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porches were within.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, out of every nation, and [from] tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, having been clothed in long white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right of the four; and the face of a calf on the left of the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Each one [had] four faces, and each one [had] eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands.

The first living being was like a lion, the second living being [was] like a calf, the third living being had a face of a man, and the fourth living being was like a flying eagle.

Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him that sits on the throne, to Him that lives forever and ever,