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And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land,
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and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:
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`Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;
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and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it;
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and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,
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and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;