- 他又制造一座铜坛,长二十肘,宽二十肘,高十肘。
- 又铸一个铜海,样式是圆的,高五肘,径十肘,围三十肘。
- 海周围有野瓜(野瓜原文作牛)的样式,每肘十瓜,共有两行,是铸海的时候铸上的。
- 有十二只铜牛驮海,三只向北,三只向西,三只向南,三只向东。海在牛上,牛尾向内。
- 海厚一掌,边如杯边,又如百合花,可容三千吧特。
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- He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
- He 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.
- Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it--ten to a cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
- The 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.
- It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.
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