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Solomon also cast a brazen sea, whose figure was that of a hemisphere.
This brazen vessel was called a sea for its largeness, for the laver
was ten feet in diameter, and cast of the thickness of a palm. Its middle
part rested on a short pillar that had ten spirals round it, and that pillar
was ten cubits in diameter. There stood round about it twelve oxen, that
looked to the four winds of heaven, three to each wind, having their hinder
parts depressed, that so the hemispherical vessel might rest upon them,
which itself was also depressed round about inwardly. Now this sea contained
three thousand baths.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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