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1 Kings 7:33-41 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

33. The wheels were constructed like chariot wheels; their axletrees, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast.

34. The four braces reached the four corners of each stand, and formed part of the stand.

35. At the top of the stand there was a raised collar half a cubit high, and the handles and panels on top of the stand formed part of it.

36. On the flat ends of the handles and on the panels, wherever there was a bare space, cherubim, lions, and palm trees were carved, as well as wreaths all around.

37. This was how he made the ten stands, all of the same casting, the same size, the same shape.

38. He made ten bronze basins, each four cubits in diameter with a capacity of forty baths, one basin atop each of the ten stands.

39. He placed the stands, five on the south side of the house and five on the north. The sea he placed off to the southeast from the south side of the house.

40. When Hiram had made the pots, shovels, and bowls, he finished all his work for King Solomon in the house of the Lord:

41. two columns; two nodes for the capitals on top of the columns; two pieces of netting covering the two nodes for the capitals on top of the columns;

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