Contradiction claim
How much did the molten sea hold?
Kings and Chronicles describe the same bronze basin in the temple with nearly identical wording, including the same handbreadth thickness and lily-work brim, but give different capacities: two thousand baths in Kings, three thousand in Chronicles. Chronicles adds the phrase "received and held".
Numerical discrepancyReviewedSeverity: lowClassification confidence: moderatePossible textual issueTranslation dependent
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How to read this record
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Passages side by side
TextThe primary text, as seeded. Nothing here is summarised or paraphrased.
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
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 three thousand baths.
Why they appear to conflict
AnalysisEach side states a proposition attributable to its passages. A claim is not assumed to have exactly two sides.
1 Kings
The molten sea contained two thousand baths.