| NET Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. | 1Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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." | 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"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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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." | 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. |
| 7He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze. | 9He made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, overlaying their doors with bronze. |
| 10He put "The Sea" on the south side, in the southeast corner. | 10He set the sea at the southeast corner of the Temple. |
| 11Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God's temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. | 11Hiram-abi crafted the pots, shovels, and basins, thus completing the work that he did for King Solomon on the Temple of God; |
| 12He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, | 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; |
| 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), | 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); |
| 14the ten movable stands with their ten basins, | 14the ten stands with their ten basins; |
| 15the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath, | 15the large bronze basin called the Sea with the twelve oxen underneath, |
| 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. | 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. |
| 17The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. | 17The king had them forged in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah in the Jordan plain. |
| 18Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. | 18Solomon made so many utensils in such great quantities that the weight of the bronze was never fully recorded. |
| 19Solomon also made these items for God's temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept, | 19Solomon also made these items for God's Temple: the golden altar, the tables for the Bread of the Presence, |
| 20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, | 20the lamp stands and their lamps made of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary, as required, |
| 21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, | 21the pure gold ornaments in the shape of flowers, the lamps, and the tongs (all made of the purest gold), |
| 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. | 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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