Translation, 1 Kings 7:23-51

And he made the cast-metal sea Ten in cubit from from its lip until its lip Round all around And five in cubit its height And a cord thirty in cubit Surrounded it all around. Now gourds from below to its lip all around surrounding it Ten in cubit caused-to-go-round the sea all around Two rows the cast-metal gourds in its casting. Standing on two and ten herd-animals Three faces north And three faces west And three faces south And three faces east. Now the sea on them from-toward the rising Now all their after-quarters housed (inwards). Its thickness a handbreadth And its lip according to the making of a lip of a cup Bud of a lily Two thousand bat it held.

And he made ten bronze wheeled-stands Four in a cubit the length of the one wheeled-stand And four in a cubit its width And three in a cubit its height. Not this (is) the making of the stand: Rims (were) to them And the rims (were) between the crossbars Now on the rims which (were) between the crossbars Lions Herd-animals And cherubim And on the crossbeams a stand from above And from beneath To the lions And to the herd-animals Joined-making of a slope (??) Now four wheels of bronze (were) to one wheeled-stand And axles of bronze And four of its feet, shoulders (were) to them From beneath for the basin (were) cast-metal shoulders From the other side each joined Now its mouth from the house toward the crown-capital And from the rising in a cubit And its opening (was) round, making-stand a cubit and half a cubit Also on the opening carvings And their crossbeams (were) square not round. Not four wheels from underneath to the crossbeams And the hands of the wheels on the wheeled-stands Now the height of one wheel a cubit and half the cubit. Now the making of the wheels as the making of the wheel of a chariot Their hands and their arches and their binders and their hubs the all cast-metal. Now four shoulders to the four corners of the one wheeled-stand From the wheeled stand its shoulder. Now on the head of the wheeled-stand Half of the cubit high Round all around And on the head of the wheeled-stand Its hands And its crossbeams away from it (?). And he opened on the tablets of its hands And on its crossbeams Cherubim Lions And palm trees According to the nakedness of each (= man) And joined all around. According to this he made ten wheeled-stands: One cast-metal One measure One form For all.

And he made ten bronze basins Forty bat held the one basin Four in a cubit the one basin One basin on one wheeled-stand To ten of the wheeled-stands. And he gave the wheeled-stands Five on the wing of the house from the right And five on the wing of the house from the left Now the sea he gave from the wing of the house, the right side, eastward toward the Negeb/south.

And made Hiram the basins And the fire-shovels And the sprinkling-basins And finished Hiram to make all the world Which he did for the king Shlomoh House of Yahweh (That is,) Standing-pillars, two And pans of the crown-capitals which (were) on the heads of the standing-pillars, two And the nettings, two, to cover The two pans of the crown-capitals Which (were) on the head of the standing-pillars And the pomegranates four hundred For the two nettings Two rows of pomegranates for the one netting To cover the two pans of the crown-capitals Which (were) on the face of the standing-pillars.

And the wheeled-stands, ten And the basins, ten, on the wheeled-stands.

And the sea, one And the herd-animals, two and ten, Beneath the sea.

And the pots And the fire shovels And the sprinkling-basins And all these instruments which made Hiram For the king Shlomoh House of Yahweh Bronze burnished.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them In the thick-clay of the ground Between Sukkot and between Tzartan.

And Shlomoh caused to rest all the instruments. From very very (great) abundance he did not search out from weight of the bronze. And made Shlomoh all the instruments which (were for) the house of Yahweh, i.e., The altar, gold And the table which on it (was) the bread of the faces, gold And the Menorot Five from the right And five from the left Before the Debir Gold hammered And the blossoms And the lamps And the snuffers Gold And the cups And the trimmers And the sprinkling-basins And the palm-cups And the censers Gold hammered And the foreheads for the doors of the house The inner, toward the holy of the holies And for the doors of the house for the palace. Gold.

And completed all the work which the king Shlomoh did House of Yahweh And Shlomoh caused to enter the holy things of David his father The silver And the gold And the instruments. And he gave into the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.