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And its thickness was a handbreadth. Its bottom and its walls, except that at its edge it was thin and beaten out and hammered, like the rim of a cup which we drink from, and it is decorated with flowers and lilies.

Two thousand bas. [The equivalent of] six thousand se’ah, for a בת is equal to three se’ah, as it is stated, “The איפה and the בת [should] have one measurement.”⁴³Yechezkeil 45:11. Thus, [six thousand se’ah] are found to be one hundred fifty ritual baths of purity; four thousand se’ah for one hundred ritual baths, and the two thousand [se’ah] for fifty ritual baths.⁴⁴See Maseches Eruvin 14b. And even were you to divide everything according to the measurement by which the Sages measured, an amoh squared by three amohs high for each ritual bath, you will find it to be the same [as follows]: [The lower part of the sea was] three amohs high [by one hundred square amohs] equaling one hundred ritual baths. The [upper part of the sea was] two [amohs high and] round [with a diameter of ten amohs and contained sufficient water for] fifty ritual baths, because the square is greater than the circle by one quarter. [And in Divrei Hayomim] it is written, “it capacity was three thousand bas.”⁴⁵II Divrei Hayomim 4:5. Our Rabbis explained it refers to a dry measure, since the overflow was one third of the capacity of the receptacle.⁴⁶See Maseches Eruvin 14b. The Gemara explains that the heap that is above the top is half the volume within the container, i.e., 2000 liquid measures =3000 dry measures.