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|Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.  
 
|Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.  
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|Also he made a circular brass tank about ten cubits from brim to brim, about five cubits high; it was about thirty cubits in circumference.
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|Everybody knows pi is 3.14159... and a ten cubit diameter circular tank can't be exactly thirty cubits in circumference - but which is correct?  The diameter or the circumference?  Given the exact value of pi relating the diameter and the circumference to each other, one or the other is only approximate, thus the use of "about."
 
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==Chapter 5==
 
==Chapter 5==
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