6" 'Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,' he replied. "The manager told him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.'


In Context

3 "The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm ashamed to beg--

4 I know what I'll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.'

5 "So he called in each one of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

6 " 'Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,' he replied. "The manager told him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.'

7 "Then he asked the second, 'And how much do you owe?' " 'A thousand bushels of wheat,' he replied. "He told him, 'Take your bill and make it eight hundred.'

8 "The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

Luke 16:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:6But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.