1 Construiu também um altar de bronze de vinte côvados de comprimento, vinte de largura e dez de altura.2 Fabricou o mar de metal fundido, o qual tinha uma largura de dez côvados de uma borda a outra. Era redondo e sua altura era de cinco côvados: sua circunferência era medida por um cordão de trinta côvados.3 Figuras de bois circundavam-no todo, ao redor, debaixo do rebordo, dez por cada côvado, em duas fileiras, fundidas numa só peça com ele.4 Repousava sobre doze bois, dos quais três olhavam para o norte, três para o oeste, três para o sul, três, para o oriente. O mar descansava sobre suas partes traseiras que estavam voltadas para dentro.5 Sua espessura era de um palmo; a sua borda, como a de um copo, tinha a forma de uma flor de loto. Sua capacidade era de três mil batos.6 Salomão fez também dez bacias, das quais cinco foram colocadas à direita e cinco à esquerda, para nelas fazer as abluções. Nelas era lavado tudo que se utilizava para os holocaustos; ao passo que o mar servia para as abluções dos sacerdotes.7 Fez dez candelabros de ouro, de acordo com o modelo prescrito, e colocou-os no templo, cinco à direita e cinco à esquerda.8 Fez dez mesas e colocou-as no templo, cinco à direita e cinco à esquerda; e cem vasos de ouro.9 Fez o átrio dos sacerdotes, e o grande pátio com portas recobertas de bronze.10 Colocou o mar voltado para a direita, a sudeste.11 Hirão fabricou as caldeiras, as pás e as bacias, terminando dessa maneira todos os trabalhos que tinha de fazer para o rei Salomão no templo de Deus,12 a saber: duas colunas com os capitéis e as arquitraves que lhes estavam sobrepostas, duas redes que cobriam os capitéis com as arquitraves que estavam sobrepostas às colunas,13 quatrocentas romãs das quais duas fileiras ornavam as grades que cobriam os capitéis com as arquitraves que estavam sobre as colunas.14 Fez os pedestais e as bacias que eles suportam,15 o mar e os doze bois que o sustentam,16 as caldeiras, as pás e os garfos. Todos os acessórios que Hurão-Abi fez para o templo do Senhor eram de bronze polido.17 O rei mandou-os fundir na planície do Jordão, numa terra argilosa entre Socot e Sareda.18 Todos os objetos foram fabricados em tal quantidade que não se podia avaliar o peso do bronze.19 Eis os objetos que Salomão mandou fossem ainda feitos para o templo: altar de ouro, as mesas nas quais se colocavam os pães da proposição,20 os candelabros com suas lâmpadas de ouro prescritas pela lei para o santuário, as flores,21 as lâmpadas e as tenazes feitas de ouro fino,22 as facas, os vasos, as colheres e os cinzeiros de ouro fino, a porta de ouro da sala, as portas internas do Santo dos Santos e as portas de entrada do templo que eram de ouro.

1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.2 He also made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, entirely round and five cubits high; and a line of thirty cubits girded it round about.3 And under it [were] figures of oxen, which did compass it round about, ten in each cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two orders of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the Negev and three looking toward the east; and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.5 And the thickness of it [was] a handbreadth and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies, [and] it received and held three thousand baths.6 He also made ten lavers and put five on the right hand and five on the left, to wash in them; they cleansed the work of the burnt offering in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.8 He also made ten tables and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. And he made one hundred basins of gold.9 Furthermore, he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid the doors of them with brass.10 And he set the sea on the right side towards the east, over against the Negev.11 And Hiram made the pots and the shovels and the basins. And Hiram finished the work, that he had been making for King Solomon for the house of God,12 Two pillars and the pommels and the chapiters, [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were] on the top of the pillars;13 four hundred pomegranates on the two networks; two orders of pomegranates on each network, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were] upon the pillars.14 He also made the bases upon which he placed the lavers;15 one sea, and twelve oxen under it;16 and the pots and the shovels and the fleshhooks and all their vessels, did Hiram, his father, make to King Solomon for the house of the LORD of the purest brass.17 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in clay of the ground, between Succoth and Zeredathah.18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, for the weight of the brass could not be found out.19 And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables upon which the showbread [was set];20 likewise, the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;21 and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, [he made of] gold, of perfect gold;22 also the snuffers and the basins and the spoons and the censers, [of] pure gold. [Regarding] the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy [place] and the doors of the house of the temple, [were of] gold.: