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send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.
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And he answering said to them, Give *ye* them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?
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And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go [and] see. And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.
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And he ordered them to make them all sit down by companies on the green grass.
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And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties.
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And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave [them] to his disciples that they might set [them] before them. And the two fishes he divided among all.
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And they all ate and were satisfied.
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And they took up of fragments the fillings of twelve hand-baskets, and of the fishes.
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And those that ate of the loaves were five thousand men.
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And immediately he compelled his disciples to go on board ship, and to go on before to the other side to Bethsaida, while *he* sends the crowd away.
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And, having dismissed them, he departed into the mountain to pray.