The temple’s furnishings

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.[a] He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits[b] high. It took a line of thirty cubits[c] to measure round it. Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it – ten to a cubit.[d] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:1 That is, about 9 metres long and wide and 4.5 metres high
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 2.3 metres
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 14 metres
  4. 2 Chronicles 4:3 That is, about 45 centimetres