New Revised Standard Version
Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Contemporary English Version
After Jesus had told the people to sit down,

New American Bible
He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.

And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.

to sit.

Matthew 14:19 And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

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Mark 6:39,40 And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass. . . .

Luke 9:14-16 Now there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples: Make them sit down by fifties in a company. . . .

John 6:10 Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.