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While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
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And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye out to meet him.
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Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
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And the foolish said unto the prudent, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out.
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But the prudent answered, saying, Lest there be not enough for us and you, but go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.
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And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and those that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.
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Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
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But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
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Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.
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For
it is like a man travelling into a far country,
who called his own slaves and delivered unto them his goods.
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And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his faculty, and straightway took his journey.