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But he answered them, "Give them something to eat, yourselves!" They replied, "We are to go and spend thousands on bread, and give it to them to eat?"
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He asked them, "How many loaves do you have? Go and check." When they had found out, they said, "Five. And two fish."
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Then he ordered all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass.
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They sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred.
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Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah. Next he broke up the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute. He also divided up the two fish among them all.
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They all ate as much as they wanted,
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and they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces and fish.
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Those who ate the loaves numbered five thousand men.
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Immediately Yeshua had his talmidim get in the boat and go on ahead of him toward the other side of the lake, toward Beit-Tzaidah, while he sent the crowds away.
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After he had left them, he went into the hills to pray.
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When night came, the boat was out on the lake, and he was by himself on land.