23. He made a cast metal sea, ten cubits from one side to the other. It was round and had a height of five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.
24. Under the brim all the way around there were gourds, ten in a cubit. When it was cast, the gourds were placed in two rows going all the way around it.
25. It stood on top of twelve oxen with three facing north, three facing toward the west, three facing toward the south, and three facing toward the east. The sea was set on them, and their hindquarters were turned inward.
26. It was a hand-breadth thick, and the brim was made similar to the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
27. He made ten stands out of bronze, each measuring four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
28. The work of the stands looked like this: They had panels, and the panels were set in the frames.
29. And on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.
30. Every stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.
31. Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were engravings, and its panels were four-sided, not round.
32. Underneath the panels were four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were joined to the stand, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
33. The wheels worked like chariot wheels in that their axles and rims and spokes and hubs were all cast metal.
34. There were four supports for the four corners of each stand, and the supports were part of one piece with the stand itself.
35. On the top of the stand, there was a round band half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.
36. On the surface of its stays and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.