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Matthew 20:6-13 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

6. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing there and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here the whole day unemployed?’

7. They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go also into the vineyard.’

8. And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.’

9. And when the ones hired about the eleventh hour came, they received a denarius apiece.

10. And when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, and they also received a denarius apiece.

11. And when they received it, they began to complain against the master of the house,

12. saying, ‘These last people worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!’

13. But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not come to an agreement with me for a denarius?

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