Basons of a second sort; the first or chief were of gold, and these of silver are called the second, or next to them of worth and use. Other vessels a thousand: he speaks of vessels of a middle size; for great and small were five thousand four hundred, as it follows here. Or, as some render it, other vessels by thousands: they were not distinctly numbered according to their various forms and uses, but were promiscuously put together by thousands.

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