[VRWC_minion]

1 Kings 7 23 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits [1] from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits [2] to measure around it.

I have seen this before and I believe you are in error in its interpretation. The rim and the circumfurance of the vessel itself are not necessarily the same. For example, my tea cup might measure 3 inches around but while its rim measures 3.14 inches in diameter.

Seeing that the text descibes a rim and seeing that the vessel was designed to bath in a rim wider than the main vessel makes perfect sense.

[Physicist]

For example, my tea cup might measure 3 inches around but while its rim measures 3.14 inches in diameter.

Did M.C. Escher design your teacup?

Seeing that the text descibes a rim and seeing that the vessel was designed to bath in a rim wider than the main vessel makes perfect sense.

And it does, too, but then it would take a distance larger than pi times the diameter to measure around it, not smaller.