CHAPTER 4

¹And he made the bronze altar, twenty cubits its length and twenty cubits its width and ten cubits its height. ²And he made the sea of cast metal, twenty cubits from rim to rim, entirely round, and five cubits its height, and thirty cubits its circumference. ³And the figures of oxen were beneath it, around it on all sides, ten cubits, encircling the sea all around, two rows of oxen, cast in a solid piece with it, ⁴standing on twelve oxen, three facing north and three facing west and three facing south and three facing east, with the sea over them above and all their hindquarters toward the inside. ⁵And its thickness was a hand-span and its rim like the fashioning of a cup’s rim, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand bats. ⁶And he made ten washstands and put five on the right and five on the left to wash in them. The articles of the burnt offering they would rinse with them, but the sea was for the washing of the priests. ⁷And he made ten golden lampstands as they should be, and he placed in the Temple five on the right and five on the left. ⁸And he made ten tables and set them in the Temple, five on the right and five on the left, and he made a hundred golden basins. ⁹And he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and its doors he overlaid with gold. ¹⁰And the sea he set on the right side toward the southeast. ¹¹And Huram made the pails and the shovels and the basins. And Huram finished doing the task that he had done for King Solomon in the house of God: the ¹²two pillars and the globes and the two capitals on top of the two pillars and the two sets of network that were on top of the pillars, ¹³and the four hundred pomegranates for each set of network to cover the two capital globes that were on top of the pillars, ¹⁴and he made the stands, and the washstands on the stands he made, ¹⁵the one sea and the twelve oxen under it, ¹⁶and the pails and the shovels and the forks and all their vessels did Huram his master craftsman make for King Solomon for the house of the LORD—burnished bronze. ¹⁷The king cast them in the Jordan plain in molds in the earth between Succoth and Zeredah. ¹⁸And Solomon made all these vessels in very great abundance, for the weight of the bronze could not be reckoned. ¹⁹And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God and the altar of gold and the tables upon which was the show bread, ²⁰and the lampstands and their lamps to burn as should be done before the inner sanctuary of fine gold, ²¹and the blossoms and the lamps and the tongs of gold, purest gold; ²²and the snuffers and the basins and the ladles and the fire-pans—fine gold, and the entrance of the house, its inner doors to the Holy of Holies, and the doors of the house, of the Temple—gold.