John 2:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 4 And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Now there were six waterpots of stone standing there, as the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing) demanded, holding twenty to thirty gallons apiece.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁶ Nearby were six stone water jars used for the Jewish cleansing ritual, each able to hold about twenty or thirty gallons.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.

John 2:6 Cross References

Luke 16:6

4 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

John 2:7

5 And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

John 3:25

3 He that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal that God is true.

Ephesians 5:26

Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

Hebrews 10:22

1 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 6:2

1 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

Hebrews 9:10

9 For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Hebrews 9:19

8 So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.