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神殿の器具の製作
1王はさらに、長さと幅が二十キュビト、高さ十キュビトの青銅の祭壇を作りました。 2それから、直径が十キュビトもある大洗盤も作りました。その縁は床から五キュビトの高さにあり、縁の周囲は三十キュビトでした。 3その洗盤は二段に並んだ金属製の牛の背に載っていました。 4牛は全部で十二頭で、互いに尻尾を合わせるようにして立っていました。三頭ずつ、それぞれ顔を北、西、南、東に向けていました。 5洗盤の厚さは一手幅（七・四センチ）あり、容量は三千バテ（六十九キロリットル）。縁は杯のようにゆりの花をかたどっていました。
6次に、いけにえを洗う洗盤を十個作り、五個を右側に、五個を左側に置きました。大洗盤は、祭司たちが体をきよめる時に用いました。
7さらに規定に従って、金の燭台十個を念入りに鋳造し、五個を神殿内の右側に、五個を左側に置きました。 8机を十個作り、それも五個を神殿内の右側に、五個は左側に置きました。また、金の鉢を百個鋳造しました。 9さらに、祭司たち用の庭と大庭を作り、それぞれの入口の扉に青銅を張りました。 10大洗盤は神殿の外の南東の隅に置きました。
11フラム・アビは、いけにえをささげる時に用いる鉢、十能、灰つぼを作りました。こうして彼は、ソロモン王から受けた仕事を完成させたのです。
12-16それらは、二本の柱、二本の柱の上にある二つの柱頭、柱頭に取りつけられた二組の鎖、二組の柱頭の鎖から垂れ下がる四百個のざくろ、洗盤の台と、洗盤の本体、大洗盤と、それを載せる十二頭の牛、鉢、十能、肉刺し。
熟練した職工のフラム・アビは、ソロモン王のために、これらすべてのものをみがき上げた青銅で作りました。 17-18スコテとツェレダとの間にあるヨルダン渓谷の粘土層の地で、これらのものを鋳造したのです。用いられた青銅はあまりに大量で、重さを量りきれないほどでした。
19しかし、神殿内のものは金だけを使いました。祭壇、供えのパンを載せる机などの器具類は全部金で作るよう、王が指示したからです。 20-22燭台、ともしび皿、花模様の飾り、火ばし、芯切りばさみ、鉢、さじ、火皿なども、すべて純金で作りました。神殿の入口と扉、至聖所に通じる扉も、すべて金で作りました。
The temple’s furnishings
1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.4:1 That is, about 9 metres long and wide and 4.5 metres high 2He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits4:2 That is, about 2.3 metres high. It took a line of thirty cubits4:2 That is, about 14 metres to measure round it. 3Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it – ten to a cubit.4:3 That is, about 45 centimetres 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 towards the centre. 5It was a handbreadth4:5 That is, about 7.5 centimetres in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.4:5 That is, about 66,000 litres
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 south-east 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 moulds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.4:17 Hebrew Zeredatha, a variant of 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.
