NASB
""Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.'"
— Luke 14:19, NASB
“And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.”
“And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused. ”
“"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'”
“Another said,‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’”
“And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to try them. I pray thee, hold me excused.”
“And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.”
“And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.”
But He said to him, "A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;
and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for everything is ready now.'
"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.'
"Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.'
"Another one said, 'I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.'
"And the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, 'Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.'
"And the slave said, 'Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.'