1 Kings 7:23–39

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. ³⁰There were four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these were under the basin, and the supports were decorated on each side with wreaths. ³¹Its opening from the inside of the capital and above was a cubit; its pedestal was a round work of a cubit and a half; moreover, on its opening were the carvings with four-sided frames, not circular. ³²Four of the wheels were underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels were on the stands. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half. ³³The construction of the wheel was like the construction of the wheel of the chariot; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their naves were all cast. ³⁴The four supports were the four corners of each stand, with the stand supporting it. ³⁵On top of the stand was half a cubit deep, circular all around, and on the top of the stand were its supports and its frames. ³⁶He engraved on the plates, on its supports, and on its frame cherubim, lions and images of a palm tree, according to the space for each, with wreaths all around. ³⁷He made the ten stands like this in one cast, with the same measurement and shape for each of them.

³⁸He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths; each basin was four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands. ³⁹He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house.