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And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
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And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle.
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And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just.
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And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.
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But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?
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They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.
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And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.
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When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
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But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: And they also received every man a penny.
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And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
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Saying: These last have worked but one hour. and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.