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He said, ‘Six hundred gallons[a] of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write three hundred.’ Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘Six hundred bushels[b] of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and write four hundred and eighty.’

“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children[c] of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation[d] than the children of the light are.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:6 Or one hundred baths. A bath was about six gallons.
  2. Luke 16:7 Or one hundred cors. A cor was about six bushels.
  3. Luke 16:8 Or people
  4. Luke 16:8 Or kind of people