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He answered, "An enemy has done this.' The slaves said to him, "Then do you want us to go and gather them?'
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But he replied, "No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them.
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Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.' "
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