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The Furnishings of the House of Yahweh

Then (A)he made a bronze altar, [a]twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height. (B)And he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and [b]thirty cubits in [c]its circumference. Now figures like oxen were under it and encircling it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast [d]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 rear parts turned inward. And it was a [e]handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it (C)could hold 3,000 baths.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:1 Approx. 30 ft. long, 30 ft. wide, and 10 ft. tall or 9 m, 9 m, and 4.5 m; a cubit was approx. 18 in. or 45 cm
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:2 Approx. 45 ft. or 13.5 m
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:2 Lit a line of 30 cubits encircling it round about
  4. 2 Chronicles 4:3 Lit in its casting
  5. 2 Chronicles 4:5 A handbreadth was approx. 3 in. or 7.6 cm