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2 Chronicles 4:5

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It was a handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.

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Verse 5. Three. 3 Kennicott. two, may specify the usual quantity that was contained, though the vessel would absolutely hold a thousand measures, or baths, more. Bible.

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A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 liters, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kiloliters.

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