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1 He made the Bronze Altar thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and ten feet high.
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Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
2 He made a Sea - an immense round basin of cast metal fifteen feet in diameter, seven and a half feet high, and forty-five feet in circumference.
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Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
3 Just under the rim, there were two parallel bands of something like bulls, ten to each foot and a half. The figures were cast in one piece with the Sea.
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And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
4 The Sea was set on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. All the bulls faced outward and supported the Sea on their hindquarters.
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It stood upon 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 above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
5 The Sea was three inches thick and flared at the rim like a cup, or a lily. It held about 18,000 gallons.
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And the thickness of it was an 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 made ten Washbasins, five set on the right and five on the left, for rinsing the things used for the Whole-Burnt-Offerings. The priests washed themselves in the Sea.
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He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He made ten gold Lampstands, following the specified pattern, and placed five on the right and five on the left.
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And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
8 He made ten tables and set five on the right and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
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He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
9 He built a Courtyard especially for the priests and then the great court and doors for the court. The doors 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 He placed the Sea on the right side of The Temple at the southeast corner.
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And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
11 He also made ash buckets, shovels, and bowls. And that about wrapped it up: Huram completed the work he had contracted to do for King Solomon:
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And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
12 two pillars; two bowl-shaped capitals for the tops of the pillars; two decorative filigrees for the capitals;
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To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
13 four hundred pomegranates for the filigrees (a double row of pomegranates for each filigree);
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And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
14 ten washstands with their basins;
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He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
15 one Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
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One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
16 miscellaneous buckets, forks, shovels, and bowls.
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The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
17 The king had them cast in clay in a foundry on the Jordan plain between Succoth and Zarethan.
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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
18 These artifacts were never weighed - there were far too many! Nobody has any idea how much bronze was 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 Solomon was also responsible for the furniture and accessories in The Temple of God: the gold Altar; the tables that held the Bread of the Presence;
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And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
20 the Lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to be lighted before the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies;
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Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
21 the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs (all solid gold);
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And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
22 the gold wick trimmers, bowls, ladles, and censers; the gold doors of The Temple, doors to the Holy of Holies, and the doors to the main sanctuary.
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And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
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