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And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.

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Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

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But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

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And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

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But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

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He who has ears to hear, let him hear!