7:38a He also made ten bronze basins,

Huram also made ten water bowls/containers out of bronze.
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Huram also shaped/formed ten bronze basins ⌊to hold water for purification⌋.

7:38b each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across,

See the note on 1 Kings 7:26c. The Sea could hold fifty times as much water as these bowls or basins.

They each held forty large liquid measures ⌊of water⌋ and were four cubits across the rim/top.
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Each basin could contain about a thousand liters. Each one measured two meters from one side of the rims to the other.

7:38c one basin for each of the ten stands.

There was one basin for each base.
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One water basin ⌊sat/rested⌋ on each of the ten stands.

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