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After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius 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 market place;
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and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went.
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Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
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And about 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 when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, '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.
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Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
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And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder,
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saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'