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26 The reservoir, which held about 2,000 baths,[a] stood about a handbreadth[b] thick, and its rim looked like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:26 I.e. about 12,000 gallons; Cf. 2Chron 4:52, where the volume is given at 3,000 baths
  2. 1 Kings 7:26 I.e. about three inches; a handbreadth was about one sixth of a cubit

26 It was a handbreadth[a] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters
  2. 1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 12,000 gallons or about 44,000 liters; the Septuagint does not have this sentence.