1 Moreover, he made a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide and ten cubits high.
2 He also made the Sea of cast metal ten cubits across from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was five cubits high and its circumference was 30 cubits.
3 Beneath it, figures like bulls were set all around it, ten cubits encircling the Sea. The bulls were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.
4 The Sea stood on 12 bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested upon them and their hindquarters were all turned inward.
5 It was a handbreadth thick, and the brim was like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held 3,000 vats.
6 He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the right side and five on the left. In them the items used for the burnt offering were rinsed, but the kohanim washed in “the Sea”.