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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He crafted a circular sea of cast metal 10 cubits from rim to rim and five cubits tall. A line 30 cubits long surrounded it. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Underneath, figurines resembling oxen encircled the circular sea beneath it, ten oxen every cubit, and encircling the sea completely. The oxen were in two rows, cast all at the same time. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The sea stood on top of twelve oxen, three of which faced to the north, three of which faced to the west, three of which faced to the south, and three of which faced toward the east. The sea was placed on top of the oxen, with all of their hindquarters turned inwards. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5It was a handbreadth thick, with its brim fashioned like the brim of a cup. Similar in shape to a lily blossom, it could hold 3,000 baths. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Solomon also made ten wash basins, placing five on the right side and five on the left. The basins were intended for use to rinse burnt offerings, and the sea was intended for use by the priests to wash in. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Solomon made ten gold lamp stands as he had been directed and set them in the Temple, five on the south side and five on the north side. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He also made ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left side. He also constructed 100 gold basins. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, overlaying their doors with bronze. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He set the sea at the southeast corner of the Temple. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Hiram-abi crafted the pots, shovels, and basins, thus completing the work that he did for King Solomon on the Temple of God; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12that is, the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals on top of the pillars, the two lattice works that covered the two bowls for the capitals that were on top of the pillars; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13the 400 pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework having two rows of ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of each pillar); |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14the ten stands with their ten basins; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15the large bronze basin called the Sea with the twelve oxen underneath, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16along with its pots, shovels, forks, and all of its other implements that Hiram-abi made from polished bronze for King Solomon and the LORD's Temple. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The king had them forged in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah in the Jordan plain. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Solomon made so many utensils in such great quantities that the weight of the bronze was never fully recorded. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Solomon also made these items for God's Temple: the golden altar, the tables for the Bread of the Presence, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20the lamp stands and their lamps made of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary, as required, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21the pure gold ornaments in the shape of flowers, the lamps, and the tongs (all made of the purest gold), |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22the gold trimming instruments, basins, pans, censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (that is, the Most Holy Place), and for the doors to the main hall of the Temple. |
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