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Kings 7, verse 23, is part of an excruciatingly detailed description of the Temple and its fittings, and describes a huge bronze basin:

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.


See? Not thirty-one cubits around. Thirty. Of course, it might have been 9.55 cubits in diameter, and just been rounded up to 10, but a lot of people have had fun with this in the "infallible" Bible.

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