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Yeshua asked him, "What's your name?" "My name is Legion," he answered, "there are so many of us";
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and he kept begging Yeshua not to send them out of that region.
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Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding near the hill,
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and the unclean spirits begged him, "Send us to the pigs, so we can go into them."
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Yeshua gave them permission. They came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering around two thousand, rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.
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The swineherds fled and told it in the town and in the surrounding country, and the people went to see what had happened.
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They came to Yeshua and saw the man who had had the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were frightened.
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Those who had seen it told what had happened to the man con trolled by demons and to the pigs;
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and the people began begging Yeshua to leave their district.
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As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized begged him to be allowed to go with him.
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But Yeshua would not permit it. Instead, he said to him, "Go home to your people, and tell them how much ADONAI in his mercy has done for you."