The Sea and the Oxen

23 And he made (A)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.

24 Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, (B)all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast. 25 It stood on (C)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. 26 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained [a]two thousand baths.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:26 About 12,000 gallons; three thousand, 2 Chr. 4:5

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