And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held (d) three thousand baths.
(d) In the first book of the kings, (1 Kings 7:26), mention is only made of 2000, but the lesser number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterwards, is declared.