1 Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine metres square and four and a half metres high.
2 He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was four and a half metres across, just over two metres deep, and thirteen and a half metres around.
3 Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every forty-five centimetres, all made from the same piece of metal as the bowl.
4 The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outwards in each of four directions.
5 The sides of the bowl were seventy-five millimetres thick, and its rim was in the shape of a cup that curved outwards like flower petals. The bowl held about sixty thousand litres.