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4 Mandou também fazer um altar de bronze, quadrado, com 10 metros de lado e 5 metros de altura. 2 Depois mandou forjar um enorme tanque redondo, também chamado mar de fundição, com um diâmetro de 5 metros. A borda dessa grande bacia ficava a 2,5 metros do chão; a sua circunferência media 15 metros. 3 Estava apoiada nas costas de duas fileiras de bois em metal. Todo o conjunto, tanto dos bois como do tanque, foi feito de uma só peça.
4 Este assentava sobre doze bois de metal com as partes traseiras viradas para o interior; três voltados o norte, três para o sul, três para o este e três para o oeste. 5 As paredes do tanque mediam 8 centímetros de espessura. O seu rebordo era como o de uma taça em forma de lírio. Tinha capacidade para 66 000 litros.
6 Mandou ainda construir dez vasilhas para água, com o fim de se lavarem nelas as ofertas; estavam dispostas cinco de cada lado da imensa bacia, à direita e à esquerda. Os sacerdotes usavam a bacia, e não as vasilhas, para se lavarem.
7 Seguindo cuidadosamente as instruções, mandou moldar dez candelabros de ouro e colocou-os no templo, cinco junto da parede da esquerda e os outros cinco do lado oposto.
8 Fez também dez mesas, colocando cinco junto da parede da esquerda e cinco do lado oposto. Moldou ainda cem bacias em ouro.
9 Construiu um pátio para os sacerdotes e outro para o público. Forrou as portas de acesso com bronze. 10 O grande tanque estava no canto sudeste da sala exterior do templo.
11 Hurão fez também o resto dos utensílios necessários: bacias, pás e tinas.
Por fim, Hurão terminou toda a obra para o templo, que Salomão lhe encomendara:
12 dois pilares;
um capitel para o cimo de cada pilar;
rosáceas para cobrir as bases dos capitéis de cada pilar;
13 400 romãs, em duas filas, no trabalho das rosáceas, para cobrir as bases dos dois capitéis;
14 bases para sustentarem as pias;
15 um grande tanque e doze bois para o suportar;
16 bacias, pás e garfos.
Este hábil artífice, Hurão Abiú, fez todos esses trabalhos acima mencionados para o rei Salomão, usando bronze polido. 17 Tudo foi feito em bronze fundido e preparado nas planícies do Jordão, num sítio entre Sucote e Zereda. 18 Foram usadas grandes quantidades de bronze, cujo peso era tal, que Salomão nem sequer registou o seu valor.
19 No entanto, Salomão recomendou que todos os utensílios e o mobiliário da casa de Deus fossem feitos de ouro puro. Isto incluía o altar, as mesas onde se encontrava exposto o pão da Presença de Deus, 20 os candelabros de ouro puro, com as lâmpadas que deviam estar acesas diante do lugar santíssimo, segundo o costume, 21 as decorações florais, as lâmpadas, os espevitadores, 22 os apagadores, as bacias, os perfumadores, os braseiros; tudo foi feito em ouro puro; também as portas do lugar santíssimo e as da entrada principal do templo. Todos estes objetos eram feitos de ouro puro.
2 Chronicles 4
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4 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the Lord of bright brass.
17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
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