| New American Standard Bible 1995 | NET Bible |
| 1Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height. | 1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. |
| 2Also he made the cast metal sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits and its circumference thirty cubits. | 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. |
| 3Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece. | 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." |
| 4It stood on twelve oxen, three facing the north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them and all their hindquarters turned inwards. | 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 thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 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 also made ten basins in which to wash, and he set five on the right side and five on the left to rinse things for the burnt offering; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. | 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." |
| 7Then he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. | 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 made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred golden 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. |
| 9Then he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze. | 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze. |
| 10He set the sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast. | 10He put "The Sea" on the south side, in the southeast corner. |
| 11Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house 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 bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were 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, |
| 13and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on 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), |
| 14He also made the stands and he made the basins on the stands, | 14the ten movable stands with their ten basins, |
| 15and the one sea with the twelve oxen under it. | 15the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath, |
| 16The pails, the shovels, the forks and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD. | 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. |
| 17On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. | 17The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. |
| 18Thus Solomon made all these utensils in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze could not be found out. | 18Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. |
| 19Solomon also made all the things that were in the house of God: even the golden altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on them, | 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 with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary in the way prescribed; | 20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, |
| 21the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold, of purest gold; | 21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, |
| 22and the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons and the firepans of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the holy of holies and the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of 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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