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# Connecting Statement:
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Jesus finishes telling a parable about a person who sows seeds.
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# fell among the thorn plants
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"fell where plants with thorns grew"
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# choked them
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"choked the new sprouts." Use your word for the way weeds prevent other plants from growing well.
# produced grain
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"produced a crop" or "grew more seeds" or "gave fruit"
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# some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty
You can make clear the understood information as was done in the UDB. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
# one hundred ... sixty ... thirty
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"100 ... 60 ... 30" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# He who has ears
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This is a way of referring to everyone listening. See how you translated this in [Matthew 11:15 ](../11/13.md ). AT: "Everyone who is listening to me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# let him listen
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Here "listen" means paying attention. See how you translated this in [Matthew 11:15 ](../11/13.md ). AT: "must pay careful attention to what I am saying" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])