¹Then he made an altar of bronze , twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide , and ten cubits high .[#4:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.]

²Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim . It was round , five cubits high , and thirty cubits in circumference .[#4:2 or, pool, or, reservoir]

³Under it was the likeness of oxen , which encircled it , for ten cubits, encircling the sea . The oxen were in two rows , cast when it was cast .

⁴It stood on twelve oxen , three looking towards the north , three looking towards the west , three looking towards the south , and three looking towards the east ; and the sea was set on them above , and all their hindquarters were inward .

⁵It was a handbreadth thick . Its brim was made like the brim of a cup , like the flower of a lily . It received and held three thousand baths .[#4:5 A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 litres, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kilolitres.]

⁶He also made ten basins , and put five on the right hand and five on the left , to wash in them . The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them , but the sea was for the priests to wash in .

⁷He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them ; and he set them in the temple , five on the right hand and five on the left .

⁸He made also ten tables , and placed them in the temple , five on the right side and five on the left . He made one hundred basins of gold .

⁹Furthermore he made the court of the priests , the great court , and doors for the court , and overlaid their doors with bronze .

¹⁰He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward , towards the south .

¹¹Huram made the pots , the shovels , and the basins .

So Huram finished doing the work that he did for King Solomon in God’s house :

¹²the two pillars , the bowls , the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars , the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars ,

¹³and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks —two rows of pomegranates for each network , to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars .

¹⁴He also made the bases , and he made the basins on the bases —

¹⁵one sea , and the twelve oxen under it .

¹⁶Huram-abi also made the pots , the shovels , the forks , and all its vessels for King Solomon , for the LORD ’s house , of bright bronze .[#4:16 “abi” means “his father”]

¹⁷The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan , in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah .

¹⁸Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance , so that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

¹⁹Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house : the golden altar , the tables with the show bread on them ,

²⁰and the lamp stands with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary , of pure gold ;

²¹and the flowers , the lamps , and the tongs of gold that was purest gold ;

²²and the snuffers , the basins , the spoons , and the fire pans of pure gold . As for the entry of the house , its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold .