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Matthew 25:5

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While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

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  1. Matthew 25:3

    They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

  2. Matthew 25:4

    But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

  3. Matthew 25:6

    And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

  4. Matthew 25:7

    Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.