And he said, ‘A hundred [a]jugs of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred [b]kors of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ And his [c]master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of (A)this age are more shrewd in relation to their own [d]kind than the (B)sons of light.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:6 Lit baths, a Heb unit of measure equaling about 9 gallons or 34 liters
  2. Luke 16:7 One kor is about 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters
  3. Luke 16:8 Or lord
  4. Luke 16:8 Lit generation

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