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The washstands were identical, all cast in the same mold.
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He also made ten bronze washbasins, each six feet in diameter with a capacity of 230 gallons, one basin for each of the ten washstands.
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He arranged five stands on the south side of The Temple and five on the north. The Sea was placed at the southeast corner of The Temple.
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Hiram then fashioned the various utensils: buckets and shovels and bowls. Hiram completed all the work he set out to do for King Solomon on The Temple of God:
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two pillars; two capitals on top of the pillars; two decorative filigrees for the capitals;
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four hundred pomegranates for the two filigrees (a double row of pomegranates for each filigree);
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ten washstands each with its washbasin; one Sea;
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twelve bulls under the Sea;
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miscellaneous buckets, shovels, and bowls.
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He cast them in clay in a foundry on the Jordan plain between Succoth and Zarethan.
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These artifacts were never weighed - there were far too many! Nobody has any idea how much bronze was used.