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20 Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom? 21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures [a] of flour, until it was all leavened.”

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  1. 13:21 literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel.

The Parable of the Yeast

20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and[a] hid in[b] three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 13:21 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Luke 13:21 Some manuscripts have “put into”