| New International Version | NET Bible |
| 1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. | 1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. |
| 2He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. | 2He 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. |
| 3Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it--ten to a cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea. | 3Images 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." |
| 4The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. | 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. |
| 5It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths. | 5It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. |
| 6He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing. | 6He 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." |
| 7He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. | 7He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. |
| 8He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls. | 8He 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. |
| 9He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. | 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze. |
| 10He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner. | 10He put "The Sea" on the south side, in the southeast corner. |
| 11And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God: | 11Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God's temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. |
| 12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; | 12He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, |
| 13the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars); | 13the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), |
| 14the stands with their basins; | 14the ten movable stands with their ten basins, |
| 15the Sea and the twelve bulls under it; | 15the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath, |
| 16the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles. All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of polished bronze. | 16and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the LORD's temple were made from polished bronze. |
| 17The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan. | 17The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. |
| 18All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated. | 18Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. |
| 19Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God's temple: the golden altar; the tables on which was the bread of the Presence; | 19Solomon also made these items for God's temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept, |
| 20the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed; | 20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, |
| 21the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold); | 21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, |
| 22the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall. | 22the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple. |
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