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Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Oxen. In 3 Kennicott. 7:24 we read Hebrew “knops,” ( Bible.) or “apples.”—Of ten. Hebrew “ten in a cubit.” Hence there must have been 600 heads of oxen, as the sea was thirty cubits in circumference, and there were two rows. Calmet.—Others suppose that here were only five in each row, or only one in each cubit. See Vat. and 3 Kennicott. The Septuagint and Syr. omit this verse. Calmet.—Yet it is found in the best editions of the Septuagint Bible.
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