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 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.