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# A farmer went out to sow his seed
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"A farmer went out to scatter some seed in a field" or "A farmer went out to scatter some seeds in a field"
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# some fell
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"some of the seed fell" or "some of the seeds fell"
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# it was trampled underfoot
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "people walked on it" or "people walked on them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# birds of the sky
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This idiom can be translated simply as "birds" or as "birds flew down and" to keep the sense of "sky."
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# devoured it
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"ate it all" or "ate them all"
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