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Luke 16:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Luke 16:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 “There was a rich man[a] who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.
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- 16:19 The oldest Greek manuscript of Luke dating from ca. A.D. 175–225 records the name of the rich man as an abbreviated form of “Nineveh,” but there is very little textual support in other manuscripts for this reading. “Dives” of popular tradition is the Latin Vulgate’s translation for “rich man” (Lk 16:19–31).
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