◄ Luke 16:6 ►
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Good News Translation
'One hundred barrels of olive oil,' he answered. 'Here is your account,' the manager told him; 'sit down and write fifty.'

New Revised Standard Version
He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’

Contemporary English Version
"A hundred barrels of olive oil," the man answered. So the manager said, "Take your bill and sit down and quickly write '50.'"

New American Bible
He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.

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Luke 16:9,12 And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings. . . .

Titus 2:10 Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Context
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
…5Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? 6But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. 7Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty.…
Cross References
Matthew 20:8
And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.

Luke 16:5
Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

Luke 16:7
Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty.

John 2:6
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.

Luke 16:5
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