1 Kings 7:38
38And he made aten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.2 Chronicles 4:5
5Its thickness was a handbreadth. ▼▼A handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters
And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. cIt held 3,000 baths. ▼▼A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters
Ezekiel 45:14
14and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor ▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
(the cor, like the homer, contains ften baths). ▼▼See Vulgate; Hebrew (ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer)
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