New American Bible, Revised Edition

1 Kings 7:15-30 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

15. He fashioned two bronze columns, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

16. He also made two capitals cast in bronze, to be placed on top of the columns, each of them five cubits high.

17. There were meshes made like netting and braid made like chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital.

18. He also cast pomegranates, two rows around each netting to cover the capital on top of the columns.

19. The capitals on top of the columns (in the porch) were made like lilies, four cubits high.

20. And the capitals on the two columns, both above and adjoining the bulge where it crossed out of the netting, had two hundred pomegranates in rows around each capital.

21. He set up the columns at the temple porch; one he set up to the south, and called it Jachin, and the other to the north, and called it Boaz.

22. The top of the columns was made like a lily. Thus the work on the columns was completed.

23. Then he made the molten sea; it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.

24. Under the brim, gourds encircled it for ten cubits around the compass of the sea; the gourds were in two rows and were cast in one mold with the sea.

25. This rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with their haunches all toward the center; upon them was set the sea.

26. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim resembled that of a cup, being lily-shaped. Its capacity was two thousand baths.

27. He also made ten stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four wide, and three high.

28. When these stands were constructed, panels were set within the framework.

29. On the panels within the frames there were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the frames likewise, above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths in hammered relief.

30. Each stand had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. The four legs of each stand had cast braces, which were under the basin; they had wreaths on each side.