And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Two or three measures, called metreta. Both the Latin and Greek text, by the derivation, may signify a measure in general, according to the Rhemish translation: but metreta was a particular measure of liquids: yet, not corresponding to our firkins, I could not think it proper with the Protestant and M. N. to put two or three firkins. (Witham)
