(A)Also he made the cast metal sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits and [a]its circumference thirty cubits. Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast [b]in one piece. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing the north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them and all their hindquarters turned inwards.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 4:2 Lit a line of 30 cubits encircling it round about
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:3 Lit in its casting