1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
2 He made the sea of cast metal, round, ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high; it took a line of thirty cubits to go around it.
3 Beneath it, all the way around, were figures of oxen encircling it, ten to the cubit, going around the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.
4 It rested on twelve oxen, three looking north, three looking west, three looking south, and three looking east. The sea sat on top of them, and their rear parts all faced inward.
5 It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily flower. It held three thousand baths.
6 He also made ten basins for washing, putting five on the south and five on the north. What belonged to the burnt offering was rinsed in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He made ten gold lampstands as specified for them and set them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north.
8 He made ten tables too and put them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north; and he made a hundred gold bowls.
9 He made the priests' court and the great court with doors for the court, and covered their doors with bronze.
10 He placed the sea on the south side, to the southeast.
11 Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. Thus Hiram completed the work he carried out for King Solomon on God's house:
12 two pillars; the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the two pillars; and the two latticeworks covering the two bowls of the capitals on top of the pillars;
13 and four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, covering the two bowls of the capitals on the pillars.
14 He made the stands and the basins on the stands,
15 the one sea and the twelve oxen beneath it,
16 and the pots, shovels, and forks. All their vessels Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.
17 The king had them cast in the Jordan plain, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 Solomon made all these vessels in such great numbers that the weight of the bronze was never found out.
19 So Solomon made all the furnishings in God's house: the gold altar; the tables on which the bread of the Presence lay;
20 the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to be lit in front of the inner sanctuary as required;
21 the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold, the finest gold;
22 and the snuffers, bowls, ladles, and firepans of pure gold. As for the house's entrance, its inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the house, the main hall, were of gold.