1 Kings 7:23–29

²³He also made the molten^g sea, ten cubits in diameter,^h and five cubits was its height. A measuring line of thirty cubits would encircle it all around. ²⁴Gourds were under its rim surrounding it all around; ten to the cubit, surrounding the sea all around with two rows of gourds, which were cast when he cast the metal. ²⁵The sea was standing on twelve oxen, with three facing to the north, three facing to the west, three facing to the south, and three facing to the east. The sea was on top of them, with all of their hindquarters turned to the inside. ²⁶Its thickness was a handbreadth, but its rim was as the work on the brim of a cup, like the bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths.

²⁷He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height. ²⁸Now this was the construction of the stands: there were frames for them and frames between the crossbars, ²⁹and on the frames which were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the crossbars both above and beneath the lions and oxen were works of cascading wreaths.