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1 Kings 7:34-35-43 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

34-35. Around the top of each stand was a twenty-two-centimetre strip, and there were four braces attached to the corners of each stand. The panels and the supports were attached to the stands,

36. and the stands were decorated with flower designs and figures of lions, palm trees, and winged creatures.

37. Hiram made the ten bronze stands from the same mould, so they were exactly the same size and shape.

38. Hiram also made ten small bronze bowls, one for each stand. The bowls were almost two metres across and could hold about eight hundred litres.

39. He put five stands on the south side of the temple, five stands on the north side, and the large bowl at the south-east corner of the temple.

40. Hiram made pans for hot ashes, and also shovels and sprinkling bowls.This is a list of the bronze items that Hiram made for the Lord's temple:

41. two columns; two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of the columns; two chain designs on the caps;

42. four hundred pomegranates for the chain designs;

43. ten moveable stands; ten small bowls for the stands;

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