diff --git a/docs/topics/jobs.rst b/docs/topics/jobs.rst
index c2b9f104b..41aeaceac 100644
--- a/docs/topics/jobs.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/jobs.rst
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ a signal), and resume it later by issuing the same command::
 
     scrapy crawl somespider -s JOBDIR=crawls/somespider-1
 
-Keeping persitent state between batches
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+Keeping persistent state between batches
+========================================
 
 Sometimes you'll want to keep some persistent spider state between pause/resume
 batches. You can use the ``spider.state`` attribute for that, which should be a