And under [a]it was the fashion of oxen, which did compass it round about, [b]ten in a cubit compassing the Sea about: two rows of oxen were cast when it was molten.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:3 Meaning, under the brim of the vessel, as 1 Kings 7:24.
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:3 In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300.

Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.[a] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 4:3 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters