1 Kings 7:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Its opening was within the crown, whose height was one cubit; its opening was round, as a pedestal is made; it was a cubit and a half wide. At its opening there were carvings; its borders were four-sided, not round.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Its mouth within the capital projected upward a cubit, and its mouth was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half. Also upon its mouth were carvings, and their borders were square, not round.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.

Common English Bible

³¹ Inside the bowl was an opening eighteen inches deep. The opening was round, measuring twenty-seven inches, with engravings. The panels of the stands were square rather than round.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Also, the mouth of the interior of the basin was at the top of the head. And what was visible outside was of one cubit all around, and altogether it had one cubit and a half. Now at the corners of the columns were diverse engravings. And the spaces between the columns were square, not round.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ The mouth also of the laver within was in the top of the chapiter. And that which appeared without was of one cubit all round: and together it was one cubit and a half. And in the corners of the pillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were square, not round.

1 Kings 7:31 Cross References

1 Kings 7:30

Each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.

1 Kings 7:32

The four wheels were underneath the borders; the axles of the wheels were in the stands; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.