Feeding the Five Thousand

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As evening approached, the talmidim came to him and said, "This is a remote place and it's getting late. Send the crowds away, so that they can go and buy food for themselves in the villages."

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But Yeshua replied, "They don't need to go away. Give them something to eat, yourselves!"

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"All we have with us," they said, "is five loaves of bread and two fish."

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He said, "Bring them here to me."

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After instructing the crowds to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the crowds.

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They all ate as much as they wanted, and they took up twelve baskets full of the pieces left over.

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Those eating numbered about five thousand men, plus women and children.

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