Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 King Solomon had a bronze altar made, which was 30 feet square and 15 feet high.
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Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
2 He also made a round tank of bronze, 7 1/2 feet deep, 15 feet in diameter, and 45 feet in circumference.
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Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
3 All around the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of decorations, one above the other. The decorations were in the shape of bulls, which had been cast all in one piece with the rest of the tank.
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Under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
4 The tank rested on the backs of twelve bronze bulls that faced outward, three facing in each direction.
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It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
5 The sides of the tank were 3 inches thick. Its rim was like the rim of a cup, curving outward like the petals of a flower. The tank held about 15,000 gallons.
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It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
6 They also made ten basins, five to be placed on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. They were to be used to rinse the parts of the animals that were burned as sacrifices. The water in the large tank was for the priests to use for washing.
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He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 They made ten gold lampstands according to the usual pattern, and ten tables, and placed them in the main room of the Temple, five lampstands and five tables on each side. They also made a hundred gold bowls.
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He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
9 They made an inner courtyard for the priests, and also an outer courtyard. The doors in the gates between the courtyards were covered with bronze.
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Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
10 The tank was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.
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He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
11 Huram also made pots, shovels, and bowls. He completed all the objects that he had promised King Solomon he would make for the Temple: The two columns The two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the columns The design of interwoven chains on each capital The 400 bronze pomegranates arranged in two rows around the design of each capital The ten carts The ten basins The tank The twelve bulls supporting the tank The pots, shovels, and forks Huram the master metalworker made all these objects out of polished bronze, as King Solomon had commanded, for use in the Temple of the Lord.
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Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the house of God:
17 The king had them all made in the foundry between Sukkoth and Zeredah in the Jordan Valley.
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In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 So many objects were made that no one determined the total weight of the bronze used.
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Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
19 King Solomon also had gold furnishings made for the Temple: the altar and the tables for the bread offered to God;
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Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the show bread;
20 the lampstands and the lamps of fine gold that were to burn in front of the Most Holy Place, according to plan;
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and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
21 the flower decorations, the lamps, and the tongs;
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and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;
22 the lamp snuffers, the bowls, the dishes for incense, and the pans used for carrying live coals. All these objects were made of pure gold. The outer doors of the Temple and the doors to the Most Holy Place were overlaid with gold.
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and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple, were of gold.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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