1 Kings 7:26-44 Modern English Version (MEV)

26. It was a hand-breadth thick, and the brim was made similar to the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

27. He made ten stands out of bronze, each measuring four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

28. The work of the stands looked like this: They had panels, and the panels were set in the frames.

29. And on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.

30. Every stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.

31. Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were engravings, and its panels were four-sided, not round.

32. Underneath the panels were four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were joined to the stand, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

33. The wheels worked like chariot wheels in that their axles and rims and spokes and hubs were all cast metal.

34. There were four supports for the four corners of each stand, and the supports were part of one piece with the stand itself.

35. On the top of the stand, there was a round band half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.

36. On the surface of its stays and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.

37. In this way he made the ten stands, with them all having the same shape, measure, and size.

38. Then he made ten basins of bronze, with each basin able to hold forty baths, each being four cubits. Upon every one of the ten stands sat one basin.

39. He put five stands on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast.

40. Huram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins.So Huram finished all the work in making items for King Solomon for use in the house of the Lord:

41. the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the two pillars, the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars;

42. and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

43. the ten stands and ten basins on the stands;

44. one sea and twelve oxen under the sea;

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