²³ He made a round molten Sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference.^(A)

²⁴ Under its brim were gourds encircling the Sea, ten to a cubit; the gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.

²⁵ It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their rears pointed inward.

²⁶ It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held 2,000 baths [Hebrew liquid measurement].

²⁷ Hiram made ten bronze bases [for the lavers]; their length and breadth were four cubits, and the height three cubits.

²⁸ This is the way the bases were made: they had panels between the ledges.

²⁹ On the panels between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the ledges there was a pedestal above. Beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

³⁰ And every base had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a laver. Beneath the laver the supports were cast, with wreaths at the side of each.

³¹ Its mouth within the capital projected upward a cubit, and its mouth was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half. Also upon its mouth were carvings, and their borders were square, not round.

³² Under the borders were four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were one piece with the base. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

³³ The wheels were made like a chariot wheel: their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.

³⁴ There were four supports to the four corners of each base; the supports were part of the base itself.

³⁵ On the top of the base there was a circular elevation half a cubit high, and on the top of the base its stays and panels were of one piece with it.

³⁶ And on the surface of its stays and its panels Hiram carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.

³⁷ Thus he made the ten bases. They all had one casting, one measure, and one form.

⁶ He made also ten lavers in which to wash and put five on the right (south) side and five on the left (north). Such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.

¹⁷ Also the pillars of bronze that belonged to the house of the Lord, and the bronze bases or pedestals [which supported the ten basins] and the bronze Sea or huge laver that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried all the bronze of them to Babylon.