1"For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
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After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius[a] a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
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And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
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and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.'
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So they went.Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
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And 1about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'
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They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'
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And 2when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his 3foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'
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And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.