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The Temple’s Furnishings

1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 2He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. 3Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
4The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. 5It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.
6He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.
7He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
8He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.
9He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. 10He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
11And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.
 So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:
  12the two pillars;
  the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
  the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
  13the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);
  14the stands with their basins;
  15the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
  16the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.
 All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze.
17The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan. 18All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
19Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple:
  the golden altar;
  the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;
  20the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
  21the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);
  22the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.

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聖殿的設備

(王上7.23-51)

1他造一座銅壇,長二十肘,寬二十肘,高十肘。 2他又鑄一個銅海,周圍是圓的,直徑十肘,高五肘,用繩子量周圍是三十肘。 3銅海下面的周圍有牛的樣式,有十肘,繞着銅海;牛有兩行,是造銅海的時候鑄上去的。 4銅海安在十二頭銅牛上:三頭向北,三頭向西,三頭向南,三頭向東。銅海安在牛上,牛尾都向內。 5銅海厚一掌,邊如杯邊,像百合花,容量是三千罷特。 6他又造十個盆:五個放在右邊,五個放在左邊,作洗滌之用。獻燔祭所用之物都洗在盆內;但銅海是為祭司洗滌用的。
7他照所定的樣式造十個金燈臺,放在殿裏:五個在右邊,五個在左邊。 8他造十張桌子,放在殿裏:五張在右邊,五張在左邊。他又造一百個金碗。 9他建造祭司院和大院,以及院門,門扇包上銅。 10他把銅海安在殿的右邊,就是東南邊。
11戶蘭又造了盆、鏟子和盤子。這樣,戶蘭所羅門王做完了上帝殿的工: 12兩根柱子和柱子頂上兩個如碗的柱頂,以及蓋着如碗柱頂的兩個網子; 13四百個石榴,安在兩個網子上,每網兩行石榴,蓋着柱子上面兩個如碗的柱頂。 14他造盆座,又造其上的盆; 15銅海和其下的十二頭牛; 16盆、鏟子、肉叉。巧匠戶蘭所羅門王為耶和華殿造的這一切器皿都是用磨亮的銅, 17是王在約旦平原、疏割撒利但中間的泥巴地鑄成的。 18所羅門造這一切器皿,數量很多,銅的重量無法計算。
19所羅門又為上帝的殿造了各樣的器皿:金壇和獻供餅的供桌; 20純金的燈臺和燈盞,可以照定例點在內殿前; 21燈臺上的花和燈盞,以及燈剪,都是金的,而且是純金的; 22純金的鉗子、盤子、勺子、火盆。至於殿門和至聖所的門扇,以及殿的門扇,都是金的。