| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height. | 1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. |
| 2Then he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. | 2He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference. |
| 3And under it was the likeness of oxen encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The oxen were cast in two rows, when it was cast. | 3Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea. |
| 4It stood on twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward. | 4The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center. |
| 5It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained three thousand baths. | 5It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths. |
| 6He also made ten lavers, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as they offered for the burnt offering they would wash in them, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in. | 6He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing. |
| 7And he made ten lampstands of gold according to their design, and set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. | 7He made ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. |
| 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 bowls of gold. | 8Additionally, he 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 bowls. |
| 9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze. | 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze. |
| 10He set the Sea on the right side, toward the southeast. | 10He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner. |
| 11Then Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God: | 11Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God: |
| 12the two pillars and the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; | 12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars; |
| 13four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on the pillars); | 13the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars); |
| 14he also made carts and the lavers on the carts; | 14the stands; the basins on the stands; |
| 15one Sea and twelve oxen under it; | 15the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea; |
| 16also the pots, the shovels, the forks—and all their articles Huram his master craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD. | 16and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. |
| 17In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Zeredah. | 17The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah. |
| 18And Solomon had all these articles made in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined. | 18Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined. |
| 19Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of God: the altar of gold and the tables on which was the showbread; | 19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence; |
| 20the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in the prescribed manner in front of the inner sanctuary, | 20the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed; |
| 21with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold, of purest gold; | 21the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold; |
| 22the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold. As for the entry of the sanctuary, its inner doors to the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple, were gold. | 22the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall. |
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