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Luke 19:11-13
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Luke 19:11-13
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The Parable of the Ten Pounds
11 As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12 So he said, ‘A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. 13 He summoned ten of his slaves, and gave them ten pounds,[a] and said to them, “Do business with these until I come back.”
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- Luke 19:13 The mina, rendered here by pound, was about three months’ wages for a labourer
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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