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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 three thousand baths.[a] He also made ten washbasins and put five on the south and five on the north. The items used for the entirely burned offerings were rinsed in these. The priests washed in the Sea. He made ten gold lampstands as prescribed and put them in the sanctuary, five on the south and five on the north.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 4:5 One bath is approximately twenty quarts or five gallons.

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