1 Salomão também mandou fazer um altar de bronze de nove metros de comprimento, nove metros de largura e quatro metros e meio de altura.
2 Fez o tanque de metal fundido, redondo, medindo quatro metros e meio de diâmetro e dois metros e vinte e cinco centímetros de altura. Era preciso um fio de treze metros e meio para medir a sua circunferência.
3 Abaixo da borda e ao seu redor havia figuras de touro, de cinco em cinco centímetros. Os touros foram fundidos em duas fileiras numa só peça com o tanque.
4 O tanque ficava sobre doze touros, três voltados para o norte, três para o oeste, três para o sul e três para o leste. Ficava em cima deles, e as pernas traseiras dos touros eram voltadas para o centro.
5 A espessura do tanque era de quatro dedos, e sua borda era como a borda de um cálice, como uma flor de lírio. Tinha capacidade de sessenta e seis mil litros.
6 Fez dez pias, colocando cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte. Nelas tudo o que era usado nos holocaustos era lavado, enquanto que o tanque servia para os sacerdotes se lavarem.
7 Fez dez candelabros de ouro, de acordo com as especificações, e colocou-os no templo, cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte.
8 Fez dez mesas e colocou-as no templo, cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte. Também fez cem bacias de ouro para aspersão.
9 E fez o pátio dos sacerdotes e o pátio principal com suas portas, e revestiu de bronze as suas portas.
10 Pôs o tanque no lado sul, no canto sudeste do templo.
11 Também fez os jarros, as pás e as bacias para aspersão. Assim, Hirão terminou o trabalho de que fora encarregado pelo rei Salomão, no templo de Deus:
12 as duas colunas; os dois capitéis em forma de taça no alto das colunas; os dois conjuntos de correntes que decoravam os dois capitéis;
13 as quatrocentas romãs para os dois conjuntos de correntes, sendo duas fileiras de romãs para cada conjunto;
14 os dez carrinhos com as suas dez pias;
15 o tanque e os doze touros debaixo dele;
16 e os jarros, as pás, os garfos de carne e todos os utensílios afins. Todos esses utensílios que Hirão-Abi fez a pedido do rei Salomão, para o templo do Senhor, eram de bronze polido.
17 Foi na planície do Jordão, entre Sucote e Zeredá, que o rei os mandou fundir, em moldes de barro.
18 Salomão os fez em tão grande quantidade, a ponto de não se poder determinar o peso do bronze utilizado.
19 Além desses, Salomão mandou fazer também todos estes outros utensílios para o templo de Deus: o altar de ouro; as mesas sobre as quais ficavam os pães da Presença;
20 os candelabros de ouro puro com suas lâmpadas, para iluminarem diante do santuário interno, conforme determinado;
21 as flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes de ouro maciço;
22 os cortadores de pavio, as bacias para aspersão, as tigelas, os incensários de ouro puro e as portas de ouro do templo: tanto as portas da sala interna, o Lugar Santíssimo, quanto as portas do átrio principal.
1 Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. 2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. 3 Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. 5 It was a handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths. 6 He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. 8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold. 9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze. 10 He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
11 Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins.
So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house: 12 the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, 13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks—two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. 14 He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases— 15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. 16 Huram-abi also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze. 17 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. 18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, so that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house: the golden altar, the tables with the show bread on them, 20 and the lamp stands with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; 21 and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was purest gold; 22 and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.