1 Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine meters square and four and a half meters high.
2 He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was 4.5 meters across, just over two meters deep, and 13.5 meters around.
3 Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every 45 centimeters, 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 outward in each of four directions.
5 The sides of the bowl were 75 millimeters thick, and its rim was in the shape of a cup that curved outward like flower petals. The bowl held about 60,000 liters.