The Bible in Basic English BBE
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18 And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.
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He made pomegranates in two rows encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars. He did the same for each capital.
19 The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.
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The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high.
20 And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.
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On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows all around.
21 He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.
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He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.
22 The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.
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The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars was completed.
23 And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.
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He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
24 And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.
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Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
25 It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.
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The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center.
26 It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.
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It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
27 And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
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He also made ten movable stands of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.
28 And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;
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This is how the stands were made: They had side panels attached to uprights.
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