KJV King James Version
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
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Matthew 14:21
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
About five thousand men were fed, besides women and children.
WEB World English Bible
Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
ASV American Standard Version
And they that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.
Surrounding context — Matthew 14
18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
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Philippians 4:19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.2 Corinthians 9:8-11And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:Acts 4:4Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.John 6:10And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.Acts 4:34Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
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