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1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits 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 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.
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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 Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
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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 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.
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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 It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.
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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 He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests 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 He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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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.
8 He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling 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. He made one hundred basins of gold.
9 He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors 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 south side, at the southeast corner.
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He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
11 And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:
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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:
12 the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
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the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);
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and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
14 the stands with their basins;
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He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
15 the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
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one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
16 the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles. All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of polished bronze.
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The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of it, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.
17 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.
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In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
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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 also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple: the golden altar; the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;
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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 of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
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and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
21 the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);
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and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;
22 the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.
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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.
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