Matthew 13:48
Good News Translation
When the net is full, they pull it to shore and sit down to divide the fish: the good ones go into the buckets, the worthless ones are thrown away.

New Revised Standard Version
when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad.

Contemporary English Version
When the net is full, it is dragged to the shore, and the fishermen sit down to separate the fish. They keep the good ones, but throw the bad ones away.

New American Bible
When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.

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Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.

and gathered.

Matthew 13:30,40-43 Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. . . .

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Context
The Parable of the Net
47Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. 48Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth. 49So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:18
And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers).

Matthew 13:47
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes.

Matthew 13:49
So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.

Matthew 13:47
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