1 Salomão também fez um altar de bronze com 9 metros de comprimento, 9 metros de largura e 4,5 metros de altura. 2 Depois, fundiu um grande tanque redondo, chamado Mar. O tanque media 4,5 metros de uma borda à outra, 2,25 metros de profundidade e 13,5 metros de circunferência. 3 Logo abaixo da borda, tinha ao seu redor duas fileiras de figuras semelhantes a touros. Havia cerca de vinte figuras por metro em toda a circunferência, formando uma única peça de fundição com o tanque.
4 O tanque ficava apoiado sobre doze touros, todos voltados para fora: três voltados para o norte, três para o oeste, três para o sul e três para o leste. 5 As paredes do tanque tinham oito centímetros de espessura, e sua borda se projetava para fora como uma taça, semelhante a um lírio. Tinha capacidade para cerca de sessenta mil litros de água.
6 Fez também dez pias menores para lavar os utensílios para os holocaustos. Colocou cinco do lado sul e cinco do lado norte. Os sacerdotes, porém, se lavavam no tanque chamado Mar.
7 Fez dez candelabros de ouro, de acordo com as especificações que havia recebido, e os colocou no templo, cinco do lado sul e cinco do lado norte.
8 Fez dez mesas e as colocou no templo, cinco do lado sul e cinco do lado norte. Também fez cem bacias de ouro.
9 Depois, construiu o pátio dos sacerdotes e o grande pátio externo. Fez portas para as entradas dos pátios e as revestiu com bronze. 10 O grande tanque de bronze chamado Mar foi colocado perto do canto sudeste do templo.
11 Hurão-Abi também fez as bacias, pás e tigelas necessárias.
Assim, Hurão-Abi terminou tudo que o rei Salomão havia ordenado que ele fizesse para o templo de Deus:
12 as duas colunas;
os dois capitéis em forma de taça no alto das colunas;
os dois conjuntos de correntes entrelaçadas que enfeitavam os capitéis;
13 as quatrocentas romãs penduradas nas correntes dos capitéis (duas fileiras de romãs para cada conjunto de correntes que enfeitavam os capitéis no alto das colunas);
14 as bases móveis para levar água com as pias;
15 o Mar e os doze bois debaixo dele;
16 os baldes das cinzas, as pás, os garfos de carne e os demais utensílios.
Hurão-Abi fez todos esses utensílios de bronze polido para o templo do Senhor, conforme as instruções do rei Salomão. 17 O rei ordenou que fossem fundidos em moldes de barro no vale do Jordão, entre Sucote e Zaretã. 18 Salomão usou uma quantidade tão grande de bronze que seu peso não pôde ser medido.
19 Salomão também fez toda a mobília para o templo de Deus:
o altar de ouro;
as mesas para os pães da presença;
20 os candelabros e suas lâmpadas de ouro maciço, para serem acesas diante do lugar santíssimo, conforme determinado;
21 os enfeites de flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes, todos do ouro mais puro;
22 os cortadores de pavio, as tigelas, as colheres e os incensários, todos de ouro maciço;
as dobradiças das portas de entrada do lugar santíssimo e do salão principal do templo, revestidas com ouro.
1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass. And the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it round about.
3 And under it was the likeness of oxen, which compassed it round about for ten cubits, encompassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east. And the sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts we
5 And it was a handbreadth thick. And the brim of it was wrought 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. They washed in them such things as belonged to the burnt-offering, but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 And he made the ten candlesticks 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. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
10 And he set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of God:
12 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and 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 upon the pillars.
14 He also made the bases, and he made the lavers upon the bases,
15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
16 Also the pots, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of it, Huram his father made of bright brass for king Solomon for the house of LORD.
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. For the weight of the brass could not be found out.
19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, also the golden altar, and the tables on which was the showbread,
20 and the candlesticks with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold,
21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold,
22 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold. And as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, [namely], of the temple, were of gold.