It was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their rears pointed inward. American Standard Version (1901) 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 were inward. Common English Bible The Sea rested on twelve oxen with their backs toward the center, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. Catholic Public Domain Version And it was standing upon twelve oxen, of which three were looking toward the north, and three toward the west, and three toward the south, and three toward the east. And the sea above was over them. And their posteriors were entirely hidden within. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the north, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and three towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their hinder parts were all hid within. |
It was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
King Achaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Shlomo had made for the house of the LORD. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.
As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.
Therefore go, and make talmidim of all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.
For it is written in the Torah of Moshe, *You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.* Is it for the oxen that God cares,