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26-EZK/44.usfm

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 \v 6 Then say to the rebellious ones, the house of Israel, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Let all of your disgusting actions be enough for you, house of Israel—
-\v 7 that you brought foreigners with uncircumcised hearts and uncircumcised flesh to be in my sanctuary, profaning my house, while you were offering me food, fat and blood. You have broken my covenant with all your disgusting actions.
+\v 7 that you brought foreigners with uncircumcised hearts and uncircumcised flesh to be in my sanctuary, profaning my house, while you were offering me food, fat and blood—you have broken my covenant by all your disgusting actions.
  
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-\v 8 You have not acted responsibly toward your obligations for me; instead, you gave others the duty to take care of my holy place.
-\v 9 The Lord Yahweh says this: No foreigner from any of those who are in the midst of the people of Israel, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary.
+\v 8 You have not carried out your duties regarding my holy things, but you appointed others to take up your duties, and you assigned them to care for my holy place.
+\v 9 The Lord Yahweh says this: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, from any of those who live among the people of Israel, may enter my holy place.
  
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-\v 10 Yet the Levites who went far from me when Israel wandered away, who wandered away from me after their idols—now they will pay for their sin.
+\v 10 Yet the Levites went far from me—they wandered away from me, going after their idols—but they will pay for their sin.
 \v 11 They are servants in my sanctuary, watching the gates of the house and serving in the house and they slaughter the burnt offerings and the people's sacrifices, and they will stand before the people and serve them.
 \v 12 But because they performed the sacrifices before their idols, they became stumbling blocks for sin for the house of Israel. Therefore I will lift up my hand to swear an oath against them—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—they will bear their punishment.
  

27-DAN/11.usfm

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 \v 31 His forces will rise up and profane the sanctuary and the fortress; they will take away the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes complete desolation.
-\v 32 He will flatter those who have violated the covenant and will seduce them, but the people who know their God will be strong and will take action.
+\v 32 He will flatter those who broke the covenant and will seduce them, but the people who know their God will be strong and will take action.
 
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 \v 33 The wise among the people will give understanding to many. But for days they will fall by the sword and by flame, they will be taken as prisoners and robbed of their possessions. 

28-HOS/08.usfm

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-\v 1 "Place a trumpet at your lips.
-\q An eagle is coming over the house of Yahweh.
-\q This is happening because the people have broken my covenant
+\v 1 "Place a trumpet at your lips!
+\q An eagle is coming over the house of Yahweh
+\q because the people have broken my covenant
 \q and rebelled against my law.
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 \v 2 They cry out to me,

30-AMO/01.usfm

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 \q even for four,
 \q I will not turn away punishment,
 \q because they had delivered up a whole people to Edom,
-\q and they broke their treaty of brotherhood.
+\q and they broke their covenant of brotherhood.
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 \v 10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre,
 \q and it will devour her fortresses."

38-ZEC/09.usfm

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-\v 11 And you—because of the blood of my covenant with you—I have set free your prisoners from the pit where there is no water.
+\v 11 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the pit where there is no water.
 \v 12 Return to the stronghold, prisoners of hope! Even today I am declaring that I will return double to you,
 \v 13 for I have bent Judah as my bow. I have filled my quiver with Ephraim. I have roused your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and have made you, Zion, like a warrior's sword!
 

39-MAL/02.usfm

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 \v 3 See, I am about to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the dung from your festivals, and you will be taken away with it.
-\v 4 And you will know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 4 And you will know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant may continue to be with Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.
 
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-\v 5 "My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him; honor, and he honored me and stood in awe before my name.
+\v 5 "My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him; I gave him fear, and he feared me, and he stood in awe of my name.
 \v 6 True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and he turned many away from sin.
 \v 7 For a priest's lips should keep knowledge and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is a messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
 
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-\v 8 But you have turned away from the true path. You have caused many to stumble with respect to the law. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 8 But you have turned away from the true path. You have caused many to stumble with respect to the law. You have broken the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.
 \v 9 "So I also, I have made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you have not kept my ways, but have instead shown partiality with regard to the instruction."
 
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 \v 13 And you also do this: You cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping and sighing, because he still does not turn toward the offering or accept it with favor from your hand.
 
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-\v 14 But you say, "Why does he not?" Because Yahweh was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been faithless, even though she was your companion and your wife by your covenant.
+\v 14 But you say, "Why does he not?" Because Yahweh was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been faithless, even though she was your companion and your wife by covenant.
 \v 15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of his spirit? And why did he make you one? Because he was seeking an offspring from God. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
 \v 16 "For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and the one who covers his garment with violence," says Yahweh of hosts. "So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not be faithless."
 

39-MAL/03.usfm

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-\v 1 "See, I am about to send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his
-temple. And the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, see, he is about to come," says Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 1 "See, I am about to send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, see, he will come," says Yahweh of hosts.
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 \v 2 But who will be able to endure the day of his coming? And who will be able to stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire and like
 laundry soap.