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2 Chronicles 4:1-10 New English Translation (NET)

1. He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

2. He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet.

3. Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

4. “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.

5. It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

6. He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”

7. He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.

8. He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.

9. He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.

10. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

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