Small syntax fixes (#101)

Small syntax fixes

Co-authored-by: Robert Hunt <Freely.Given.org@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_obs-tn/pulls/101
Co-Authored-By: Robert Hunt <robh@noreply.door43.org>
Co-Committed-By: Robert Hunt <robh@noreply.door43.org>

content/03/13.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 This means two months after Noah released the dove from the ark. It may be necessary to say this explicitly if it is not clear.
 
 # God said to Noah, “You and your family and all the animals may leave the boat now. Have many children and grandchildren and fill the earth.”
+
 This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “God told Noah that he and his family and all the animals could leave the boat then, and have many children and grandchildren and fill the earth.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
 
 # Have many children

content/04/07.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Melchizedek blessed Abram and said, “May God Most High who owns heaven and earth bless Abram.”
+
 This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “Melchizedek blessed Abram and asked that God Most High who owns heaven and earth would bless Abram.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
 
 # Melchizedek

content/08/01.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 This begins a new event. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-newevent]])
 
 # sent
+
 This word means that Jacob told Joseph to go and Joseph went.
 
 # his favorite son

content/08/10.md

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 The famine was very bad. There was very little food and many people outside of Egypt were starving.
 
 # Egypt, but also in Canaan
+
 For some languages, it may be clearer or more natural to say: “the country of Egypt, but also in the land of Canaan.”

content/09/04.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # saw
+
 Other ways to say this are: “realized” or “knew.”
 
 # so he ordered his people to kill

content/10/01.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ See **my people** in [09:13](09/13).
 The connecting word **But** connects what Moses and Aaron said God told Pharaoh to do (let his people go), with what he did (he did not listen to them). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-logic-contrast]])
 
 # listen to
+
 This could be translated as: “heed” or “obey.”
 
 # Instead of letting the Israelites go free

content/10/05.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # God sent a plague
+
 This could be translated as: “God caused there to be a plague” or “God caused a plague (of gnats) to come over the land of Egypt.”
 
 # gnats

content/11/08.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # called for
+
 This means that Pharaoh told his servants to tell Moses and Aaron to come to him.
 
 # and said

content/12/04.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Another way to say this would be: “there was nowhere they could go to escape since the Egyptians were behind them and the Red Sea was in front of them.”
 
 # Why did we leave Egypt?
+
 The Israelites were not asking for reasons. Because they were afraid, in this moment they were wishing they had not left Egypt (even though it had been very difficult for them there). This could be a statement: “We should not have left Egypt!” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
 
 # We are going to die!

content/12/05.md

@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ Both occurrences of the pronoun **you** refers to all the Israelites. (See: [[rc
 This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “Then God told Moses to tell the people to move toward the Red Sea.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
 
 # to move
+
 Some languages will be more specific and say: “to walk.”

content/12/08.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # marched
+
 This can be translated as: “walked” or “went.”
 
 # with a wall of water on either side of them

content/12/11.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # to stretch out his hand again
+
 This could be translated as: “lift his hand over the sea again” or, as a direct command, as in, “God told Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand again.’”
 
 # Then God
@@ -10,4 +11,5 @@ The connecting word **Then** connects the action (the Israelites arriving safely
 This could be translated as: “covered the place again where the path had been,” or “filled the whole sea again” or “went back to where it was before God separated it.”
 
 # The whole Egyptian army
+
 This could be translated as: “everyone in Egypt’s army.”

content/12/13.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # rejoiced very much
+
 This could be translated as: “were very happy and they showed it enthusiastically” or “showed it with their whole hearts” or “with all their strength.”
 
 # because God had saved them
@@ -6,7 +7,9 @@ This could be translated as: “were very happy and they showed it enthusiastica
 The connecting word **because** connects the result (the Israelites rejoiced), with the cause (God saved them). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-logic-result]])
 
 # free to worship
+
 God freed, or rescued, the Israelites from being slaves in Egypt so that they could serve him.
 
 # to praise God
+
 In some languages this could be translated as: “to lift up God’s name” or “to say that God is great.”

content/12/14.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 The connecting words **in order to** indicate the goal or purpose of the festival (to remind the Israelites and their descendants of how God had delivered them). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-logic-goal]])
 
 # remember how God had defeated
+
 This could be translated as: “regularly remind themselves of how God defeated.” The word **remember** here doesn’t just mean to not forget; it also means to formally commemorate something.
 
 # the Passover

content/14/03.md

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ The connecting word **If** introduces a hypothetical conditional relationship. I
 
 # you will end up worshiping their idols
 
-If the Israelites became friends with the Canaanites and did not destroy the idols, they would be tempted to worship those idols instead of God.
+If the Israelites became friends with the Canaanites and did not destroy the idols, they would be tempted to worship those idols instead of God.

content/14/06.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 This is a strong statement that even though the people of Canaan were large, God was even bigger and would enable the Israelites to defeat them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclamations]])
 
 # the people of Canaan
+
 This could be translated as: “the people who live in Canaan” or “the Canaanites.”
 
 # but we can certainly

content/15/02.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “God
 For some languages, it may be helpful to add: “Have the priests go before the rest of the people to cross the river.”
 
 # the water upstream stopped flowing
+
 In some languages, it may be helpful to add: “and the water in front of them flowed away downstream.”
 
 # upstream

content/15/04.md

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 The connecting word **Then** introduces sequential action. The priests were to blow their trumpets after the Israelites had finished marching around the city seven times. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-time-sequential]])
 
 # must blow their trumpets
+
 This could be translated as: “must sound their trumpets” or “must play their trumpets.” These trumpets were made out of ram’s horns.

content/15/06.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # a peace treaty
+
 This is an agreement between two groups of people that they will not harm each other but will live in peace and help each other. This could be translated as: “peace agreement.”
 
 # But one of the Canaanite people groups, called the Gibeonites

content/16/04.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 This refers to edible plants that the Israelites were growing in their gardens or fields.
 
 # were so scared, they hid
+
 This could be translated as: “were very afraid of the Midianites, so they hid.”
 
 # Finally

content/16/15.md

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 Gideon knew that it was better for the Israelites to have God as their king.
 
 # but he asked them
+
 This phrase starts with **but** because what he did next was not wise.

content/16/16.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Gideon used the gold to make a special garment
+
 This could be translated as: “Gideon melted down the gold objects the people had given him and formed a special garment out of that gold.”
 
 # But the people started worshiping it

content/18/00.md

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ This title can also be translated as: “About what happened when the Israelites
 
 # Divided Kingdom
 
-This refer to when the twelve tribes of Israel divided into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah after the death of Solomon.
+This refer to when the twelve tribes of Israel divided into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah after the death of Solomon.

content/19/02.md

@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “He
 This may be translated as: “until I command the rain and dew to come again.”
 
 # This made Ahab so angry
+
 This could be translated as: “When Ahab heard what Elijah said, he became so angry.”

content/19/04.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ The connecting word **because** connects the reason (there was no harvest), with
 The connecting words **But still** introduce a contrast relationship. You would expect the widow to refuse to help Elijah because she was almost out of food, but she did the unexpected and took care of him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-logic-contrast]])
 
 # took care of
+
 This means they gave him a place to stay in their house and provided food for him. It does not mean he was sick.
 
 # God provided for her and her son. Her jar of flour and her bottle of oil never became empty

content/24/04.md

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ John is not really talking about trees. This is an expression that compares good
 
 In some languages it would be more natural to use an indirect quote for this sentence, such as: John fulfilled what the prophets had said. They told of God’s promise to send his messenger ahead of Jesus to prepare his way.
 
-
 # John fulfilled
 
 This could mean ‘John was doing’ what the prophet said God’s messenger would do.

content/32/00.md

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-# Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man & a Sick Woman
+# Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man…a Sick Woman
 
 This title can also be translated as: “About how Jesus healed a sick woman and a man who was possessed by a demon” or “What happened when Jesus healed a sick woman and a man who was possessed by a demon?”

content/32/15.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 This may be translated as: “healing power had flowed from him into someone else” or “his power had healed someone.” Jesus did not lose any power because of this.
 
 # he turned around and asked, “Who touched me?”
+
 This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “he turned around and asked who touched him.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
 
 # Why did you ask, ‘Who touched me?’

content/34/09.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Jesus continues the story.
 
 # stood far away
+
 This can also be translated as: “stood at a distance” or “stayed separate.”
 
 # did not even look up to heaven

content/35/06.md

@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ This is a quotation within a quotation. The entire quotation can be restated so
 
 # What am I doing?
 
-The son isn’t really asking a question, so some languages will have to translate this as a statement. Alternate translation: “Why am I living like this?” or “I should not be living like this!” or “It doesn’t make sense for me to live like this.”
+The son isn’t really asking a question, so some languages will have to translate this as a statement. Alternate translation: “Why am I living like this?” or “I should not be living like this!” or “It doesn’t make sense for me to live like this.”

content/41/08.md

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ They did this symbolic action to honor Jesus as they would expect to do in the p
 
 This could mean ‘will meet me’ or ‘can meet with me.’
 
-
 # A Bible story from
 
 These references may be slightly different in some Bible translations.

content/42/05.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # That was Jesus!
+
 This exclamation emphasizes how shocked the disciples were to see Jesus alive again. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclamations]])
 
 # they told the disciples, “Jesus is alive! We have seen him!”
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ This exclamation emphasizes how shocked the disciples were to see Jesus alive ag
 This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “they told the disciples that Jesus was alive, and that they had seen him!” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
 
 # “Jesus is alive!
+
 The two disciples used this exclamation to emphasize to the other disciples that Jesus was alive. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclamations]])
 
 # We have seen him!”

content/42/10.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # you…You
 
- Each instance of **you** in this frame is plural, and refers to all the disciples present. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
+Each instance of **you** in this frame is plural, and refers to all the disciples present. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
 
 # make disciples in all people groups