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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He also made the big bronze basin called "The Sea." It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with "The Sea." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"The Sea" stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. "The Sea" was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in "The Sea." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He put "The Sea" on the south side, in the southeast corner. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God's temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14the ten movable stands with their ten basins, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the LORD's temple were made from polished bronze. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Solomon also made these items for God's temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple. |
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