2
He also made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, entirely round and five cubits high; and a line of thirty cubits girded it round about.
3
And under it
were figures of oxen, which did compass it round about, ten in each cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two orders of oxen
were cast, when it was cast.
4
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the Negev and three looking toward the east; and the sea
was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts
were inward.
5
And the thickness of it
was a handbreadth and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies,
and it received and held three thousand baths.
6
He also made ten lavers and put five on the right hand and five on the left, to wash in them; they cleansed the work of the burnt offering in them; but the sea
was for the priests to wash in.