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2 Chronicles 4:1-3
Modern English Version
2 Chronicles 4:1-3
Modern English Version
The Furnishings of the Temple(A)
4 Then he made a bronze altar that was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits[a] high. 2 And he made a cast metal sea as a water basin. It was round and ten cubits from edge to edge, five cubits high,[b] and a line of thirty cubits[c] measured its circumference. 3 Figures like oxen were underneath it, going all the way around the sea basin, ten cubits[d] on each side.[e] There were two rows of oxen that were poured as cast metal.
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- 2 Chronicles 4:1 About 30 feet long and wide and 15 feet high, or 9 meters long and wide and 4.5 meters high.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 About 7½ feet, or 2.3 meters.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 About 45 feet, or 14 meters.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 About 18 inches, or 45 centimeters.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 Or ten oxen for a cubit.
2 Chronicles 4:1-3
New International Version
2 Chronicles 4:1-3
New International Version
The Temple’s Furnishings(A)
4 He made a bronze altar(B) twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.[a] 2 He made the Sea(C) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits[b] high. It took a line of thirty cubits[c] to measure around it. 3 Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.[d] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 That is, about 30 feet long and wide and 15 feet high or about 9 meters long and wide and 4.5 meters high
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
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