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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,
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and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks,
even two orders of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that
were upon the heads of the pillars,
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and the ten bases and ten lavers upon the bases,
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and one sea and twelve oxen under the sea,
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and the pots and the shovels and the basins and all the
other vessels, which Hiram made to King Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
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And the king caused them all to be cast in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
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And Solomon did not inquire the weight of the brass of all the vessels because they were exceeding many.
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And Solomon made all the vessels that
pertained unto the house of the LORD: an altar of gold, and a table upon which the showbread
was, also of gold,