2 Chronicles 4:4-6

Expanded Bible

⁴ The bowl rested on the backs of twelve bronze ·bulls [oxen] ·that faced outward from the center of the bowl [^Lall their hindquarters were toward the inside]. Three ·bulls [oxen] faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east. ⁵ The sides of the bowl were ·four inches [four fingers; ^La handbreadth] thick, and it held ·about seventeen thousand five hundred gallons [^Lthree thousand baths]. The rim of the bowl was like the rim of a cup ·or like [and resembled] a lily blossom.

⁶ He made ten ·smaller bowls [basins] and put five on the ·south [^Lright] side and five on the ·north [^Lleft]. They were for ·washing [rinsing] the ·animals [or utensils; ^Lthings] for the burnt offerings [Lev. 1:1–17], but the ·large bowl [^LSea; v. 2] was for the priests to wash in.