2 Chronicles 4:1-6 ▼

1 Then he made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

2 He also made the molten sea. It was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.

3 Under the brim a ring of figures of oxen encircled it for ten cubits, all the way around the compass of the sea; there were two rows of oxen cast in one mold with the sea.

4 This rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with their haunches all toward the center; upon them was set the sea.

5 It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim resembled that of a cup, being lily-shaped. It had a capacity of three thousand baths.

6 Then he made ten basins for washing, placing five of them to the right and five to the left. In these the victims for the burnt offerings were washed; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.