²³He made the Sea^q of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line^r of thirty cubits^o to measure around it.

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Footnotes

oThat is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters

Cross references

qver 47; 2 Ki 25:13; 1 Ch 18:8; 2 Ch 4:18; Jer 52:17; Rev 4:6
r Jer 31:39; Zec 2:1

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.

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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