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1 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
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He made the Bronze Altar thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and ten feet high.
2 Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from rim to rim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely.
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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.
3 Under it were panels all around, each of ten cubits, surrounding the sea; there were two rows of panels, cast when it was cast.
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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.
4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set on them. The hindquarters of each were toward the inside.
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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.
5 Its thickness was a handbreadth; its rim was made like the rim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held three thousand baths.
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The Sea was three inches thick and flared at the rim like a cup, or a lily. It held about 18,000 gallons.
6 He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the right side, and five on the left. In these they were to rinse what was used for the burnt offering. The sea was for the priests to wash in.
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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.
7 He made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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He made ten gold Lampstands, following the specified pattern, and placed five on the right and five on the left.
8 He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred basins of gold.
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He made ten tables and set five on the right and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
9 He made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court; he overlaid their doors with bronze.
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He built a Courtyard especially for the priests and then the great court and doors for the court. The doors were covered with bronze.
10 He set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
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He placed the Sea on the right side of The Temple at the southeast corner.
11 And Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. Thus Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
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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:
12 the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
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two pillars; two bowl-shaped capitals for the tops of the pillars; two decorative filigrees for the capitals;
13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
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four hundred pomegranates for the filigrees (a double row of pomegranates for each filigree);
14 He made the stands, the basins on the stands,
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ten washstands with their basins;
15 the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
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one Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
16 The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.
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miscellaneous buckets, forks, shovels, and bowls.
17 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
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The king had them cast in clay in a foundry on the Jordan plain between Succoth and Zarethan.
18 Solomon made all these things in great quantities, so that the weight of the bronze was not determined.
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These artifacts were never weighed - there were far too many! Nobody has any idea how much bronze was used.
19 So Solomon made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,
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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;
20 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;
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the Lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to be lighted before the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies;
21 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;
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the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs (all solid gold);
22 the snuffers, basins, ladles, and firepans, of pure gold. As for the entrance to the temple: the inner doors to the most holy place and the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.
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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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