And the thickness thereof was an hand breadth, and the brim thereof was like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of [a]lilies: it contained [b]three thousand baths.

¶ He made also ten caldrons, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them, and to cleanse in them that which appertained to the burnt offerings: but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.

¶ And he made ten candlesticks of gold (according to [c]their form) and put them in the Temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:5 Or, flower delices.
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:5 In 1 Kings 7:26, mention is only made of two thousand, but the less number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterward, is declared.
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:7 Even as they should be made.

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