2. Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

3. And under it the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen cast, when it was cast.

4. 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 above upon them, and all their hinder parts inward.

5. And the thickness of it an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; it received and held three thousand baths.