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  "pericope": "The Return of the Evil Spirit",
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      "text": "“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.",
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      "text": "Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.",
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      "text": "Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”",
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      "text": "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.",
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      "v": 44,
      "text": "Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.",
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      "v": 45,
      "text": "Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.",
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