26. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the petals of a lily; it held 11,000 gallons.
27. Then he made ten bases of bronze—the length of each base was four cubits, the width four cubits and the height three cubits.
28. The structure of the bases was as follows: they had borders, and borders between the frames,
29. and on the borders that were below the frames were lions, oxen and cheruvim. On the frames there was a pedestal manner above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
30. Each base had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Its four legs had brackets; the brackets were beneath the laver, cast with wreaths at each side.
31. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit high, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half, and also on its opening were engravings, and their borders were square, not round.
32. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half.
33. And the structure of the wheels was like the structure of a chariot wheel; their axletrees, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast metal.
34. There were four brackets at the four corners of each base; each bracket was of one piece with the base itself.
35. On top of the base there was a band half a cubit high encircling it—its braces and its borders were part of it.
36. On the plates of the braces and on its borders, he engraved cheruvim, lions and palm trees, wherever there was clear space around each, with encircling wreaths.
37. He made the ten bases like this—all of them cast from the same mold, the same size and same shape.
38. Then he made ten basins of bronze: one basin held 220 gallons. Each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten bases was one basin.
39. Then he set up the laver stands, five on the right side of the House and five on the left side of the House, and set up the sea of cast metal on the right side of the House eastward, toward the south.
40. Then Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he performed for King Solomon on Adonai’s House:
41. the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, the two nettings to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
42. the 400 pomegranates for the two nettings, two rows of pomegranates for each to cover the two bowls of the capitals on top of the pillars,
43. the ten bases and the ten basins on the bases,
44. the one sea and the 12 oxen under the sea,
45. the pots, the shovels and the basins. All these vessels Hiram made for King Solomon in the House of Adonai were made of polished bronze.
46. The king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan, with clay of the ground between Sukkot and Zarethan.