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Haggai 2:16

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE

Back then, when you expected to get twenty buckets of grain from your pile, you'd only find ten. When you went to squeeze fifty jars of wine or oil from your press, you'd barely get twenty.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Your harvest kept coming up short because something was off with your priorities.

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