²⁴ When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.}

⁷ and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents.

⁶ and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

¹² For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

³ If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

⁴ But there is forgiveness with you, Therefore you are feared.

⁴¹ "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

⁴² When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

⁴ Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵ Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

⁷ Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels. } of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'