| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. | 1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. |
| 2Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference. | 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. |
| 3It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per foot all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin. | 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 was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. | 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. |
| 5The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons of water. | 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 also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea. | 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 then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall. | 7He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. |
| 8He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins. | 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 then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze. | 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze. |
| 10The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple. | 10He put "The Sea" on the south side, in the southeast corner. |
| 11Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram-abi completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for 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 networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals; | 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 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the 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 water carts holding the basins; | 14the ten movable stands with their ten basins, |
| 15the Sea and the twelve oxen under it; | 15the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath, |
| 16the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles. Huram-abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the LORD, just as King Solomon had directed. | 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 Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan. | 17The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. |
| 18Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined. | 18Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. |
| 19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God: the gold altar; the tables for 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 and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed; | 20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, |
| 21the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of the purest gold; | 21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, |
| 22the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold; the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold. | 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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