1 Kings 7:23-26
23 aHe also made the ▼▼I.e., large basin
Sea of ccast metal ▼▼About 15 ft. in diameter and 7.5 ft. high or 4.6 m and 2.3 m high
ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in shape, and its height was five cubits, and ▼▼Lit a line of 30 cubits went around it all around;
it was ▼▼About 45 ft. or 14 m
thirty cubits in circumference. 24Under its brim ggourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, hcompletely surrounding the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast ▼▼Lit in its casting
with the rest. 25 jIt was standing on twelve oxen, three facing 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. 26And it was a ▼▼About 3 in. or 7.6 cm
hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold ▼▼About 12,000 gallons or 45,424 liters
two thousand baths.
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