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He cast two bronze pillars. Each one was twenty-seven feet high and required a cord of eighteen feet to reach around it.
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He made two capitals of cast bronze for the tops of the columns. They were each seven and a half feet high.
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He made an intricate network of chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital.
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He made the pillars and two rows of pomegranates for each network to adorn each of the capitals.
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The capitals on top of the columns in the porch were made like lilies, each six feet high.
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Above the round-shaped part and next to the network were two hundred pomegranates. These were placed in rows around both of the capitals on top of the columns.
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He set up the columns at the temple's porch. He named the south column Jachin. The north column he named Boaz.
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After putting the lily shapes on top of the columns, he was finished with the columns.
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He also made a tank of cast metal called the Sea. It was circular in shape, fifteen feet from rim to rim, seven and a half feet high, forty-five feet in circumference.
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Under the rim were two rows of gourds completely encircling it, ten every eighteen inches, each cast in its mold.
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The Sea rested on twelve oxen with their backs toward the center, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east.