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1 Kings 7:26-28
Common English Bible
1 Kings 7:26-28
Common English Bible
26 The Sea was as thick as the width of a hand. Its rim was shaped like a cup or an open lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.[a]
27 He also made ten bronze stands. Each was six feet long, six feet wide, and four and a half feet high. 28 This is how each stand was made: There were panels connected between the legs.
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- 1 Kings 7:26 One bath is approximately twenty quarts or five gallons.
1 Kings 7:26-28
New International Version
1 Kings 7:26-28
New International Version
26 It was a handbreadth[a] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.[b]
27 He also made ten movable stands(A) of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.[c] 28 This is how the stands were made: They had side panels attached to uprights.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters
- 1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 12,000 gallons or about 44,000 liters; the Septuagint does not have this sentence.
- 1 Kings 7:27 That is, about 6 feet long and wide and about 4 1/2 feet high or about 1.8 meters long and wide and 1.4 meters high
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