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I must stop working for my master. But I know what I can do so that people will then accept me into their homes.”

Many people had a debt that they had not paid back to the master. So the servant told those people to come to him. He asked the first man, “How big is your debt to my master?” The man replied, “I have to give him 100 barrels of oil.”[a] The servant said to him, “Here is the paper with your debt written down on it. Take the paper. Sit down now and write 50 barrels there.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 16:6 A barrel is like a large, round, wooden box that contains water or oil.
  2. 16:6 The man had a big debt to pay, but the servant made it only half.