Luke 16:6

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

||The word Batus in the original containeth nine gallons three quarts. [See Ezek. 45:10, 11, 14.]
cSee 1 Kin. 4:22 marg.

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He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

“ ‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.

“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’

“ ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he said.

“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

The man replied, ‘I owe him 800 gallons of olive oil.’ So the manager told him, ‘Take the bill and quickly change it to 400 gallons.’

And he said, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your promissory note and sit down quickly and write fifty.’