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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.
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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.
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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.
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Likewise, the four shoulderpieces to the four corners of each base,
and the shoulderpieces
were of the very base itself.
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And in the top of the base
there was a rounded compass of half a cubit high and on the top of the base, its mouldings and borders
which were part of it.
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For on the tables of the mouldings and on the borders thereof, he made cherubim, lions, and palm trees, in front of the additions of each one round about.
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After this
manner he made ten bases cast in the same manner, of the same size and of the same shape.
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Then he also made ten lavers of brass; each laver contained forty baths,
and each laver measured four cubits;
and he set a laver upon each one of the ten bases.
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And he put five bases on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house, and he set the sea on the right side of the house to the east towards the Negev.
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Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the basins likewise. So Hiram finished all the work that he made King Solomon for the house of the LORD:
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That is, the two pillars and the
two bowls of the chapiters that
were on the top of the two pillars and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which
were upon the head of the pillars,