Luke 16:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ Then one by one he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, “How much do you owe my master?”

⁶ “A hundred barrels of olive oil,” the man answered.

So the manager said, “Take your bill and sit down and quickly write ‘50.’ ”

⁷ The manager asked someone else who was in debt to his master, “How much do you owe?”

“A thousand sacks^[a] of wheat,” the man replied.

The manager said, “Take your bill and write ‘800.’ ”