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And the first came up, saying, [My] Lord, thy mina has produced ten minas.
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And he said to him, Well [done], thou good bondman; because thou hast been faithful in that which is least, be thou in authority over ten cities.
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And the second came, saying, [My] Lord, thy mina has made five minas.
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And he said also to this one, And *thou*, be over five cities.
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And another came, saying, [My] Lord, lo, [there is] thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.
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For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.
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He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked bondman: thou knewest that *I* am a harsh man, taking up what I have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.
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And why didst thou not give my money to [the] bank; and *I* should have received it, at my coming, with interest?
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And he said to those that stood by, Take from him the mina and give [it] to him who has the ten minas.
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And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas.
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For I say unto you, that to every one that has shall be given; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.