Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
2 Chronicles 4:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Under it were figures of gourds, for thirty cubits, compassing the sea round about; the gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Under it were figures of oxen encircling it, ten to a cubit. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece with it. American Standard Version (1901) And under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. Common English Bible Under the rim were two rows of oxlike figures completely encircling it, ten every eighteen inches, each cast in its mold. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, under it there was the likeness of oxen. And certain engravings encircled the cavity of the sea, along ten cubits of the outside, as if in two rows. Now the oxen were molten. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And under it there was the likeness of oxen; and certain engravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were with two rows. |
Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle at the back.
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.
the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.