NET Bible
"It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons."
— 2 Chronicles 4:5, NET Bible
“And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.”
“And it was a handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths. ”
“It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.”
“Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.”
“It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.”
“And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.”
He also made the big bronze basin called“The Sea.” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet.
Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with“The Sea.”
“The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward.“The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.
It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.
He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in“The Sea.”
He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.
He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.