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Mark 4:5
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Mark 4:5 · World English Bible
Mark 4:5 in other translations
And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
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In context
2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
3 “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
4 As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
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