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He said to him, `Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.`
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The second came, saying, `Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.`
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He said to him also, `You also are to be over five cities.`
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Another came, saying, `Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which didn`t lay down, and reap that which you didn`t sow.`
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He said to him, `Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn`t lay down, and reaping that which I didn`t sow.
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Then why didn`t you deposit my money in the bank, and I at my coming might have earned interest on it?`
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He said to those who stood by, `Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.`
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They said to him, `Lord, he has ten minas!`
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`For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn`t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.