^7:23He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.”⁴³ It measured 15 feet⁴⁴ from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet⁴⁵ high. Its circumference was 45 feet.⁴⁶

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Footnotes

43 Heb “He made the sea, cast.” This large basin that was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (2 Chr 4:6; cf. Exod 30:17–21).
44 Heb “ten cubits.”
45 Heb “five cubits.”
46 Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He made the cast metal basin, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then Huram cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7½ feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He also made the molten sea, ten cubits in diameter, and five cubits was its height. A measuring line of thirty cubits would encircle it all around.

KJV 1900King James Version

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

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