John 2:6

English Standard Version

⁶Now there were six stone water jars there ^(A)for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty ^(B)gallons.^[a]

John 2:6 Greek two or three measures (metrētas); a metrētēs was about 10 gallons or 35 liters

John 2:6

New International Version

⁶Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,^(A) each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.^[a]

⁶And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

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