On a side - The 96 were toward the four winds, 24 toward the north, 24 toward the east, and so on. Add one at each corner, and the whole 100 is made up.
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Jeremiah 52:23
23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.