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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Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
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. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
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 encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. 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, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters 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. Its brim was made 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 also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were 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 lamp stands 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, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
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, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for King Solomon in God’s house:
17 The king had them all made in the foundry between Sukkoth and Zeredah in the Jordan Valley.
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The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, 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, so that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
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 God’s house: the golden altar, the tables with the show bread on them,
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 lamp stands with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;
21 the flower decorations, the lamps, and the tongs;
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and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was purest 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, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall 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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