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Its thickness was a handbreadth; its rim was made like the rim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held three thousand baths.[a] He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the right-hand side, and five on the left. In these they were to rinse what was used for the burnt-offering. The sea was for the priests to wash in.

He made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:5 A Hebrew measure of volume

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