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He said, ‘A hundred batos[a] of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors[b] of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:6 100 batos is about 395 liters or 104 U. S. gallons.
  2. 16:7 100 cors = about 2,110 liters or 600 bushels.