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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.
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The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high.
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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 set the pillars up in the entrance porch to The Temple; the pillar to the south he named Security (Jachin) and the pillar to the north Stability (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 capitals were in the shape of lilies.
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The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars was completed.
23 Hiram's next project was to make the Sea - an immense round basin of cast metal fifteen feet in diameter, seven and a half feet tall, and forty-five feet in circumference.
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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 Just under the rim there were two bands of decorative gourds, ten gourds to each foot and a half. The gourds were cast in one piece with the Sea.
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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 The Sea was set on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the bulls faced outward supporting the Sea on their hindquarters.
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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 The Sea was three inches thick and flared at the rim like a cup, or like a lily. It held about 11,500 gallons.
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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 Hiram also made ten washstands of bronze. Each was six feet square and four and a half feet tall.
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He also made ten movable stands of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.
28 They were made like this: Panels were fastened to the uprights.
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This is how the stands were made: They had side panels attached to uprights.
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