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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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圣殿的设备

(王上7.23-51)

1他造一座铜坛,长二十肘,宽二十肘,高十肘。 2他又铸一个铜海,周围是圆的,直径十肘,高五肘,用绳子量周围是三十肘。 3铜海下面的周围有牛的样式,有十肘,绕着铜海;牛有两行,是造铜海的时候铸上去的。 4铜海安在十二头铜牛上:三头向北,三头向西,三头向南,三头向东。铜海安在牛上,牛尾都向内。 5铜海厚一掌,边如杯边,像百合花,容量是三千罢特。 6他又造十个盆:五个放在右边,五个放在左边,作洗涤之用。献燔祭所用之物都洗在盆内;但铜海是为祭司洗涤用的。
7他照所定的样式造十个金灯台,放在殿里:五个在右边,五个在左边。 8他造十张桌子,放在殿里:五张在右边,五张在左边。他又造一百个金碗。 9他建造祭司院和大院,以及院门,门扇包上铜。 10他把铜海安在殿的右边,就是东南边。
11户兰又造了盆、铲子和盘子。这样,户兰所罗门王做完了上帝殿的工: 12两根柱子和柱子顶上两个如碗的柱顶,以及盖着如碗柱顶的两个网子; 13四百个石榴,安在两个网子上,每网两行石榴,盖着柱子上面两个如碗的柱顶。 14他造盆座,又造其上的盆; 15铜海和其下的十二头牛; 16盆、铲子、肉叉。巧匠户兰所罗门王为耶和华殿造的这一切器皿都是用磨亮的铜, 17是王在约旦平原、疏割撒利但中间的泥巴地铸成的。 18所罗门造这一切器皿,数量很多,铜的重量无法计算。
19所罗门又为上帝的殿造了各样的器皿:金坛和献供饼的供桌; 20纯金的灯台和灯盏,可以照定例点在内殿前; 21灯台上的花和灯盏,以及灯剪,都是金的,而且是纯金的; 22纯金的钳子、盘子、勺子、火盆。至于殿门和至圣所的门扇,以及殿的门扇,都是金的。