THE BASIN

23 He made the cast metal basin,J,h 15 feetK from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference. 24 Ornamental gourdsi encircled it below the brim, ten every half yard,L completely encircling the basin.j The gourds were cast in two rows when the basin was cast. 25 It stood on twelve oxen,k three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center. 26 The basin was three inchesM thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held eleven thousand gallons.N

THE BRONZE WATER CARTS

27 Then he made ten bronze water carts.O,l Each water cart was 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4½ feetP high. 28 This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces, 29 and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim.m On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hangingQ work. 30 Each cartn had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath. 31 And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was eighteen inchesR wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal twenty-seven inchesS wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round. 32 There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was twenty-seven inchesT tall. 33 The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal. 34 Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart. 35 At the top of the cart was a band nine inchesU high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it. 36 He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm treeso on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths. 37 In this way he made the ten water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.