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.
47. Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were too many—the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
48. So Solomon made all the equipment that was to be in the House of Adonai: the golden altar, the table on which was the bread of the presence, of gold;