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The Altar and Basins

He made a bronze altar(A) nine metres[a] long, nine metres wide, and four and a half metres[b] high.

Then he made the cast metal basin,[c](B) 4.5 metres from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 2.25 metres[d] high and 13.5 metres[e] in circumference. The likeness of oxen[f] was below it, completely encircling it, ten every 45 centimetres,[g] completely surrounding the basin. The oxen were cast in two rows when the basin was cast.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:1 Lit 20 cubits
  2. 4:1 Lit 10 cubits, also in v. 2
  3. 4:2 Lit sea
  4. 4:2 Lit five cubits
  5. 4:2 Lit 30 cubits
  6. 4:3 = gourds in 1Kg 7:24
  7. 4:3 Lit 10 per cubit