1 Salomão mandou fazer um altar de bronze, de nove metros de comprimento por nove de largura e quatro e meio de altura. 2 Também mandou fazer um tanque redondo de bronze, com dois metros e vinte e cinco de profundidade, quatro metros e meio de diâmetro e treze metros e meio de circunferência. 3 Ao redor da borda de fora do tanque, que media treze metros e meio, havia duas carreiras de figuras de touros de bronze, que tinham sido fundidas todas em uma só peça junto com o tanque. 4 O tanque se apoiava sobre as costas de doze touros de bronze que olhavam para fora: três olhavam para o norte; três, para o oeste; três, para o sul; e três, para o leste. 5 A grossura das paredes do tanque era de quatro dedos. A sua borda era como a borda de um copo, curvando-se para fora como as pétalas de um lírio. A capacidade do tanque era de mais ou menos sessenta mil litros.

6 Fizeram também dez bacias, nas quais era lavado tudo o que se usava para os sacrifícios dos animais. Cinco bacias foram colocadas no lado sul do Templo e cinco, no lado norte. A água do tanque era para os sacerdotes se lavarem.

7 Fizeram dez candelabros de ouro, como havia sido ordenado. Eles foram colocados no Templo: cinco, no lado sul e cinco, no lado norte. 8 Fizeram também dez mesas, que foram postas no Templo: cinco, no lado sul e cinco, no lado norte. Fizeram também cem vasilhas de ouro.

9 Construíram o pátio interno, para os sacerdotes, e o pátio principal. As portas dos pátios foram revestidas de bronze. 10 O tanque foi colocado no canto sudeste do Templo.

11-16 Hurã fez também caldeirões, pás e bacias e assim terminou todo o trabalho encomendado pelo rei Salomão para o Templo de Deus. Esta é a lista do que ele fez:

duas colunas;

dois remates em forma de taças, que ficavam no alto das colunas;

desenhos de correntes entrelaçadas de cada remate;

quatrocentas romãs de bronze, em duas carreiras ao redor do desenho de cada remate;

dez carretas;

dez bacias;

um tanque;

doze touros que sustentavam o tanque;

panelas, pás e garfos.

Como Salomão havia ordenado, Hurã, o mestre artesão, fez de bronze polido todas as panelas, pás e garfos para o Templo de Deus, o Senhor. 17 O rei mandou que tudo fosse feito na fundição que ficava entre Sucote e Zereda, no vale do rio Jordão. 18 Esses objetos de bronze que Salomão mandou fazer eram tantos, que o seu peso nunca foi calculado.

19 Salomão também mandou fazer para o Templo os seguintes objetos de ouro: o altar; as mesas para os pães oferecidos a Deus; 20 os candelabros e as lamparinas de ouro puro, que ficavam acesas em frente ao Lugar Santíssimo, conforme havia sido ordenado; 21 as flores, as lamparinas e as tenazes; 22 as tesouras de cortar pavios de lamparinas, as vasilhas, os pratos para o incenso e os braseiros. Todos esses objetos foram feitos de ouro puro. As portas de entrada para o Lugar Santo e as portas do Lugar Santíssimo também eram de ouro.

1 Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. 2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. 3 Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. 5 It was a handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths. 6 He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

7 He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. 8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold. 9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze. 10 He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

11 Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins.

So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house: 12 the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, 13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks—two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. 14 He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases— 15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. 16 Huram-abi also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze. 17 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. 18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, so that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house: the golden altar, the tables with the show bread on them, 20 and the lamp stands with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; 21 and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was purest gold; 22 and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.