22. On the tops of the pillars was lily work [design]. So the work of the pillars was finished.
23. He made a round molten Sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference. [Exod. 30:17-21; II Chron. 4:6.]
24. Under its brim were gourds encircling the Sea, ten to a cubit; the gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.
25. It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their rears pointed inward.
26. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held 2,000 baths [Hebrew liquid measurement].
27. Hiram made ten bronze bases [for the lavers]; their length and breadth were four cubits, and the height three cubits.
28. This is the way the bases were made: they had panels between the ledges.