וְעָבְי֣וֹ טֶ֔פַח וּשְׂפָת֛וֹ כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה שְׂפַת־כּ֖וֹס פֶּ֣רַח שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן אַלְפַּ֥יִם בַּ֖ת יָכִֽיל׃ (פ)
A sua grossura era de três polegadas, e a borda era como a de um copo, como flor de lírio; ele levava dois mil batos.
Tosefta Kelim Metzia
Vessels of dung and vessels of stone and oversized vessels of clay: Rabbi Meir says, behold, they are [treated] like [other vessels], but the Sages say, behold, they are [treated] like tents. Rabbi Nehemiah says, large baskets and large sugin (another type of basket) that have rims and can hold 40 seahs of liquid, which are two kors of dry -- [behold, they are not impure, for] even though they are not moved [when they are full, they are moved when] there are remainders in them.*Note: the bracketed language follows the GR"A, as the Tosefta is defective at this point. And how large are they? One cubit by one cubit by the height of three cubits, resulting in six hundred forty-eight handbreadths. The proof of the matter is [derived] from the dimensions of the Table (i.e., on which the showbread was placed). [On the topic of dimensions,] Rabbi Yosei says, regarding the "sea" that Solomon made, it says (2 Chron. 4:5, Koren tr.), "it held and contained three thousand batim." In another place it says (1 Kings 7:26), "it contained two thousand batim." It is impossible to say "two thousand" when it has already said "three thousand." And it is impossible to say "three thousand" when it has already said "two thousand." [Rather,] it was said, from now on, two thousand in wet is [equivalent to] three thousand in dry. § The tables that are [set next to] the dining couches [which] the homeowners eat upon -- even though they are as smooth as fingernails, they may contract impurity because they are like a slab, and it so happened with one homeowner who kept boards*נצרים, cf. Kel. 8:1 (נְסָרִים) inside [his house], and they would ask him to send them to funeral meals and wedding feasts, and the matter came before the Sages, and they held them to be impure.