Luke 16:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ The man answered, ‘I owe him 8,000 pounds of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Here is your bill. Hurry! Sit down and make the bill less. Write 4,000 pounds.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ He said, A hundred measures [about 900 gallons] of oil. And he said to him, Take back your written acknowledgement of obligation, and sit down quickly and write fifty [about 450 gallons].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.

Common English Bible

⁶ He said, ‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil.’The manager said to him, ‘Take your contract, sit down quickly, and write four hundred fifty gallons.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ So he said, 'One hundred jars of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your invoice, and quickly, sit down and write fifty.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

Luke 16:6 Cross References

Matthew 20:8

“At the end of the day, the owner of the field said to the boss of all the workers, ‘Call the workers and pay all of them. Start by paying the last people I hired. Then pay all of them, ending with the workers I hired first.’

Luke 16:12

And if you cannot be trusted with the things that belong to someone else, then you will not be given things of your own.

Luke 16:5

So the manager called in each person that owed the master some money. He said to the first man, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Luke 16:7

Then the manager said to another man, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ The man answered, ‘I owe him 60,000 pounds of wheat.’ Then the manager said to him, ‘Here is your bill; you can make it less. Write 50,000 pounds.’

Luke 16:9

“I tell you, use the things you have here in this world to make friends \{with God\}. Then, when those things are gone, you will be welcomed in that home that continues forever.

John 2:6

In that place there were six large waterpots made of stone. The Jews used waterpots like these in their washing ceremonies. {\cf2\super [34]} Each waterpot held about 20 or 30 gallons.

Titus 2:10

they should not steal from their masters; and they should show their masters that they can be trusted. The slaves should do these things so that in everything they do, they will show that the teaching of God our Savior is good.