The Sea and the Oxen

²³ And he made ^(A)the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

²⁴ Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, ^(B)all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast. ²⁵ It stood on ^(C)twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward. ²⁶ It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained ^[a]two thousand baths.

³⁸ Then ^(A)he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained ^[a]forty baths, and each laver was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a laver. ³⁹ And he put five carts on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the Sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.

Furnishings of the Temple^(B)

^40 (C)Huram^[b] made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the Lord: ⁴¹ the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two ^(D)networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; ^42 (E)four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars); ⁴³ the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts; ⁴⁴ one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea; ^45 (F)the pots, the shovels, and the bowls.

All these articles which ^[c]Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord were of burnished bronze. ^46 (G)In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between ^(H)Succoth and ^(I)Zaretan. ⁴⁷ And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not ^(J)determined.

⁴⁸ Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the Lord: ^(K)the altar of gold, and ^(L)the table of gold on which was ^(M)the showbread; ⁴⁹ the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; ⁵⁰ the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the ^[d]censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

⁵¹ So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the Lord was finished; and Solomon brought in the things ^(N)which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.