²⁴ Under its brim were gourds encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it. ²⁵ It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the Sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts pointed inward. ²⁶ It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand ^[a]baths.