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because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
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Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
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When he saw Yeshua from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
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and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Yeshua, you Son of Ha`Elyon God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."
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For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
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He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
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He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
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Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding.
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All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."
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At once Yeshua gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
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Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.