You dug up a vine from Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.(A)

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11 Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.(A)
He leased the vineyard to tenants.(B)
Each was to bring for his fruit
one thousand pieces of silver.(C)
12 I have my own vineyard.[a](D)
The one thousand are for you, Solomon,
but two hundred for those who take care of its fruits.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:12 Lit My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; Sg 1:6

The Parable of the Talents

14 “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey.(A) He called his own servants and entrusted his possessions to them.

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