“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write eighty.’ “Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe? ’ “ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said. “Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred kors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He says to him, 'Take your bill and write eighty.' ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him. Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
‘Here,’ the manager said, ‘take the bill and change it to 800 bushels.’ ‘I owe him 1,000 bushels of wheat,’ was the reply.
“‘And how much do you owe my employer?’ he asked the next man. “He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’ “Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’ “’A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.