and the proper quantity of the bricks which they are making heretofore ye do put on them, ye do not diminish from it, for they are remiss, therefore they are crying, saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to our God;

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.

And having seen it, his disciples were much displeased, saying, 'To what purpose is this waste?

and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, 'For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?

And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?

Three hundred

Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And given

for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, 'Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'

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for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'