diff --git a/03-LEV/20.usfm b/03-LEV/20.usfm index a34ae2a0..6cfd9d29 100644 --- a/03-LEV/20.usfm +++ b/03-LEV/20.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 6 The person who turns to those who talk with the dead, or to those who talk with spirits so as to prostitute themselves with them, I will set my face against that person; I will cut him off from among his people. -\v 7 Therefore dedicate yourselves to Yahweh and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. +\v 7 Therefore consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. \f + \ft Several modern versions have: \fqa ... Because I, Yahweh your God, am holy \fqb \f* \s5 diff --git a/14-2CH/29.usfm b/14-2CH/29.usfm index 6602e891..90fd731c 100644 --- a/14-2CH/29.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/29.usfm @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ \s5 \v 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, Hezekiah opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and repaired them. \v 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the courtyard on the east side. -\v 5 He said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Dedicate yourselves to Yahweh, and dedicate the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, and carry away the filthiness from the holy place. +\v 5 He said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, and carry away the filthiness from the holy place. \s5 \v 6 For our ancestors trespassed and did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God; they forsook him, turned away their faces from the place where Yahweh lives, and turned their backs on it. @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ \v 14 of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. \s5 -\v 15 They gathered their brothers, dedicated themselves to Yahweh, and went in, as the king commanded, following the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. +\v 15 They gathered their brothers, they consecrated themselves, and they went in, as the king commanded, following the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. \v 16 The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh to cleanse it; they brought out all the filth that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the courtyard of the house. The Levites took it to carry it out to the brook Kidron. -\v 17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to dedicate the house to Yahweh, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of Yahweh. They dedicated the house of Yahweh in eight days. On the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. +\v 17 Now they began the consecreation on the first day of the first month. By the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of Yahweh. Then for eight more days they consecrated the house of Yahweh. On the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. \s5 \v 18 Then they went to Hezekiah, the king, inside the palace and said, "We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, the altar for burnt offerings with all its implements, and the table of the bread of the presence, with all its implements. @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ \s5 \v 32 The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred male lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh. -\v 33 The animals that were dedicated to Yahweh were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. +\v 33 The consecrated offerings were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. \s5 \v 34 But the priests were too few to skin all the burnt offerings, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was done, and until the priests had dedicated themselves to Yahweh, for the Levites were more careful to dedicate themselves than the priests were.