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If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
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He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.
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For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."
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He said, "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed on the eretz,
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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
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For the eretz bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
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But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
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He said, "How will we liken the kingdom of God? Or by what parable will we compare it?
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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the eretz, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the eretz,
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yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
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With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.