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Mark 6:39
So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
Mark 6:39 · Geneva Bible
Mark 6:39 in other translations
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.
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In context
36 Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate.
37 But he answered, and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said vnto him, Shall we goe, and buy two hundreth peny worth of bread, and giue them to eate?
38 Then he sayde vnto them, Howe many loaues haue ye? goe and looke. And when they knewe it, they sayd, Fiue, and two fishes.
39 So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
40 Then they sate downe by rowes, by hundreds, and by fifties.
41 And he tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen, and gaue thanks, and brake the loaues, and gaue them to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he deuided among them all.
42 So they did all eate, and were satisfied.
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