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The Parable of the Talents

14 “For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; 15 to one he gave five talents,[a] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 25:15 This talent was more than fifteen years’ wages of a laborer

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