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Luke 16:5

3 The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.

4 I know what I will do, so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.

6 ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager. ‘Sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

7 Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

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BSB
And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
KJV
So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
WEB
Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
ASV
And calling to him each one of his lord`s debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
DARBY
And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?
BLB
And having summoned each one of the debtors of his master, he was saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my master?’
ÅB
Og han kalte til seg hver især av sin herres skyldnere, og sa til den første: Hvor meget er du min herre skyldig?
OTB
Så han kalte til seg hver av sin herres skyldnere. Han spurte den første: 'Hvor mye skylder du min herre?'
B1930
Og han kalte til sig hver især av sin herres skyldnere, og sa til den første: Hvor meget er du min herre skyldig?

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