Os Utensílios do Templo
1Salomão também mandou fazer um altar de bronze de nove metros de comprimento, nove metros de largura e quatro metros e meio de altura4.1 Hebraico: 20 côvados de comprimento e largura, e 10 côvados de altura. O côvado era uma medida linear de cerca de 45 centímetros.. 2Fez o tanque de metal fundido, redondo, medindo quatro metros e meio de diâmetro e dois metros e vinte e cinco centímetros de altura. Era preciso um fio de treze metros e meio para medir a sua circunferência. 3Abaixo da borda e ao seu redor havia figuras de touro, de cinco em cinco centímetros. Os touros foram fundidos em duas fileiras e numa só peça com o tanque.
4O tanque ficava sobre doze touros, três voltados para o norte, três para o oeste, três para o sul e três para o leste. Ficava em cima deles, e as pernas traseiras dos touros eram voltadas para o centro. 5A espessura do tanque era de quatro dedos, e sua borda era como a borda de um cálice, como uma flor de lírio. Sua capacidade era de sessenta mil litros4.5 Hebraico: 3.000 batos. O bato era uma medida de capacidade para líquidos. As estimativas variam entre 20 e 40 litros..
6Fez dez pias, colocando cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte. Nelas era lavado tudo o que era usado nos holocaustos, enquanto que o tanque servia para os sacerdotes se lavarem.
7Fez dez candelabros de ouro, de acordo com as especificações, e os colocou no templo, cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte.
8Fez dez mesas e as colocou no templo, cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte. Também fez cem bacias de ouro para aspersão.
9Fez ainda o pátio dos sacerdotes e o pátio principal com suas portas e revestiu de bronze as suas portas. 10Pôs o tanque no lado sul, no canto sudeste do templo.
11Também fez os jarros, as pás e as bacias para aspersão.
Hurão-Abi terminou assim o trabalho de que fora encarregado pelo rei Salomão no templo de Deus:
12As duas colunas;
os dois capitéis em forma de taça no alto das colunas;
os dois conjuntos de correntes que decoravam os dois capitéis;
13as quatrocentas romãs para os dois conjuntos de correntes, sendo duas fileiras de romãs para cada conjunto;
14os dez carrinhos com as suas dez pias;
15o tanque e os doze touros debaixo dele;
16os jarros, as pás, os garfos de carne e todos os utensílios afins.
Todos esses utensílios que Hurão-Abi fez para o templo do Senhor, a pedido do rei Salomão, eram de bronze polido. 17Foi na planície do Jordão, entre Sucote e Zeredá, que o rei os mandou fundir, em moldes de barro. 18Salomão os fez em tão grande quantidade que não se pôde determinar o peso do bronze utilizado.
19Além desses, Salomão mandou fazer também todos estes outros utensílios para o templo de Deus:
O altar de ouro;
as mesas sobre as quais ficavam os pães da Presença;
20os candelabros de ouro puro com suas lâmpadas, para alumiarem diante do santuário interno, conforme determinado;
21as flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes de ouro maciço;
22os cortadores de pavio, as bacias para aspersão, as tigelas, os incensários de ouro puro e as portas de ouro do templo: tanto as portas da sala interna, o Lugar Santíssimo, quanto as portas do átrio principal.
1Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
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.4.2 from…: Heb. from his brim to his brim 3And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. 4It 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 was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 5And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.4.5 with flowers…: or, like a lilyflower
6¶ He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.4.6 such…: Heb. the work of burnt offering 7And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. 8He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.4.8 basons: or, bowls
9¶ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. 10And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
11And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;4.11 basons: or, bowls4.11 finished: Heb. finished to make 12To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; 13And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.4.13 upon: Heb. upon the face of 14He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;4.14 lavers: or, caldrons 15One sea, and twelve oxen under it. 16The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.4.16 bright: Heb. made bright, or, scoured 17In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.4.17 clay…: Heb. thicknesses of the ground 18Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
19¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set; 20Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 21And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;4.21 perfect…: Heb. perfections of gold 22And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.4.22 basons: or, bowls
