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Luke 9:14
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
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Luke 9:14 in other translations
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
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In context
11 And the people, when they knew [it], followed him: and he received them, and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
12 And when the day began to decline, then came the twelve, and said to him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country around, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
13 But he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy provisions for all this people.
14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17 And they ate, and were all satisfied: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.
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