1. Then he made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
2. He also made the molten sea. It was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.
3. Under the brim a ring of figures of oxen encircled it for ten cubits, all the way around the compass of the sea; there were two rows of oxen cast in one mold with the sea.
4. This rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with their haunches all toward the center; upon them was set the sea.