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Matthew 20:8

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8And when* evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them theirb wages, beginning from the last up to the first.’

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Footnotes

  1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came”)
  2. bLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

NLTNew Living Translation

“That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.

KJV 1900King James Version

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.