New Revised Standard Version
“A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.

Contemporary English Version
A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field. While the farmer was doing this, some of the seeds fell along the road and were stepped on or eaten by birds.

New American Bible
“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it.

The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it.

sower.

Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Matthew 13:3,4,18,19,24-26,37 And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow. . . .

Mark 4:2-4,15,26-29 And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine: . . .

fell.

Luke 8:12 And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they should be saved.

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.

James 1:23,24 For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. . . .

it.

Psalm 119:118 Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

and the.

Genesis 15:11 And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.