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OET (OET-LV) And six stone waterpots were lying there according_to the purification of_the Youdaiōns, having_room_for two or three measures each.
OET (OET-RV) Now there were six empty stone water jars there that are used for Jewish purification ceremonies. (Each one could hold over 70 litres.)
Note 1 topic: translate-bvolume
μετρητὰς δύο ἢ τρεῖς
measures two or three
A metretes was equivalent to about 40 liters. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could express the quantity in modern measurements. Alternatively, to help your readers recognize that the biblical writings come from long ago when people used different measurements, you could express the amount using the ancient measurement, the metrete, and explain the equivalent in modern measurements in a footnote. Alternate translation: [80 to 120 liters]
2:6 Carved from solid rock, the stone water jars were used for religious washing ceremonies (see Mark 7:1-4). Jesus was about to fill Jewish ceremony with new content.
OET (OET-LV) And six stone waterpots were lying there according_to the purification of_the Youdaiōns, having_room_for two or three measures each.
OET (OET-RV) Now there were six empty stone water jars there that are used for Jewish purification ceremonies. (Each one could hold over 70 litres.)
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.