Mark 6:44
KJV
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
NIV
The number of the men who had eaten was [omit] five thousand.
The KJV’s use of “about” in Mark aligns with parallel accounts in other Gospels (Matthew 14:21, Luke 9:14, John 6:10).
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