| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New Living Translation |
| 1Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height. | 1Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. |
| 2Also he made the cast metal sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits and its circumference thirty cubits. | 2Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference. |
| 3Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece. | 3It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per foot all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin. |
| 4It stood on twelve oxen, three facing the north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them and all their hindquarters turned inwards. | 4The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. |
| 5It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 baths. | 5The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons of water. |
| 6He also made ten basins in which to wash, and he set five on the right side and five on the left to rinse things for the burnt offering; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. | 6He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea. |
| 7Then he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. | 7He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall. |
| 8He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls. | 8He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins. |
| 9Then he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze. | 9He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze. |
| 10He set the sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast. | 10The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple. |
| 11Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God: | 11Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram-abi completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of God: |
| 12the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars, | 12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals; |
| 13and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars. | 13the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars); |
| 14He also made the stands and he made the basins on the stands, | 14the water carts holding the basins; |
| 15and the one sea with the twelve oxen under it. | 15the Sea and the twelve oxen under it; |
| 16The pails, the shovels, the forks and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD. | 16the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles. Huram-abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the LORD, just as King Solomon had directed. |
| 17On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. | 17The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan. |
| 18Thus Solomon made all these utensils in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze could not be found out. | 18Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined. |
| 19Solomon also made all the things that were in the house of God: even the golden altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on them, | 19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God: the gold altar; the tables for the Bread of the Presence; |
| 20the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary in the way prescribed; | 20the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed; |
| 21the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold, of purest gold; | 21the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of the purest gold; |
| 22and the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons and the firepans of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the holy of holies and the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. | 22the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold; the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold. |
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