1 Kings 7:23-25

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²³ Hiram also used bronze to make a big bath which they called ‘the Sea’.^[a] It was in the shape of a circle 4.5 metres across. It was 2.3 metres deep. It was 14 metres around the outside. ²⁴ All around its edge, below the top, there were two rows of round shapes. They were pictures of fruits called gourds. They were all part of the same piece of bronze as ‘the Sea’. There were 20 gourds for every metre around the edge. ²⁵ Hiram fixed ‘the Sea’ on top of 12 bronze bulls. Three pointed north, three pointed west, three pointed south and three pointed east. Their backs were towards the middle of ‘the Sea’.