24
And under the brim of it round about
there were knops like gourds compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about in two orders, which were made when it was cast.
25
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the Negev and three looking toward the east; and upon them the sea rested, and all their hinder parts
were inward.
26
And it
was a hand breadth thick, and its lip was made like the lip of a cup, with flowers of lilies; it contained two thousand baths.
27
He also made ten bases of brass; four cubits
was the length of each base and four cubits the width and three cubits the height.
28
And the work of the bases was like this: they had borders, and the borders
were between mouldings;
29
and upon the borders that
were between the mouldings
were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the mouldings of the base, above and beneath the lions and oxen
were certain additions made of bevelled work.
30
And each base had four brasen wheels and cardinals {hinged axles} of brass, and in its four corners it had shoulderpieces, which were molten at the side of each addition, to be under the laver.
31
Its mouth entered into the chapiter
(in the joint that came out of the base) one cubit above, and its mouth was rounded like the workmanship
(of the same joint) in the base, of a cubit and a half. There were also engravings upon the mouth of it with their borders, which were square, not round.
32
And under the borders
were the four wheels, and the axletrees of the wheels
came forth from the same base. The height of each wheel
was one and a half cubits.
33
And the workmanship of the wheels
was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel, their axletrees and their rims and their spokes and their hubs
were all molten.
34
Likewise, the four shoulderpieces to the four corners of each base,
and the shoulderpieces
were of the very base itself.