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-\v 27 There were Canaanites who lived in the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo and in the surrounding villages. The men of the tribe of Manasseh did not force them to leave those towns because the Canaanites were determined to stay there.
+\v 27 There were Canaanites who lived in the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo and in the surrounding villages. The men of the tribe of Manasseh did not force them to leave those towns, because the Canaanites were determined to stay there.
 \v 28 Later, the Israelites became stronger, and they forced the Canaanites to work for them as their slaves, but they did not force all the Canaanites to leave their land.
 
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-\v 1 At that time there were still many peoples in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israelite people, because many of the Israelites in Canaan had not fought in any of the previous wars.
+\v 1 At that time there were still many peoples in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israelite people because many of the Israelites in Canaan had not fought in any of the previous wars.
 \v 2 So Yahweh did this to teach the new generation of Israelites how to wage war.
 \v 3 This is a list of the peoples that Yahweh left there to test the Israelites: the Philistines and their five leaders, the people living in the area near the city of Sidon, the descendants of Canaan, and the Hivites who were living in the mountains of Lebanon between Mount Baal Hermon and Lebo Hamath ("the pass of Hamath").
 
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-\v 22 Then a group of Israelite men came to Gideon and said to him, "You be our ruler! We want you and your son and your grandsons to be our rulers, because you rescued us from the Midian army."
+\v 22 Then a group of Israelite men came to Gideon and said to him, "You be our ruler! We want you and your son and your grandsons to be our rulers because you rescued us from the Midian army."
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 \v 23 But Gideon replied, "No, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you. Yahweh will rule over you."
 
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 \v 34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, his daughter was the first one to come out of the house to meet him. She was joyfully playing a tambourine and dancing. She was his only child and he had no other sons or daughters.
-\v 35 When Jephthah saw his daughter, he tore his clothes to show that he was very sad about what he was going to do. He said to her, "My daughter, seeing you now, you have crushed me with a terrible sorrow, because I made a solemn promise to Yahweh to sacrifice the first one who came out of my house, and I must do what I promised."
+\v 35 When Jephthah saw his daughter, he tore his clothes to show that he was very sad about what he was going to do. He said to her, "My daughter, seeing you now, you have crushed me with a terrible sorrow because I made a solemn promise to Yahweh to sacrifice the first one who came out of my house, and I must do what I promised."
 
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-\v 36 His daughter said, "My father, you made a solemn promise to Yahweh. So you must do to me what you promised, because you said that you would do that if Yahweh helped you to defeat our enemies the Ammonites."
+\v 36 His daughter said, "My father, you made a solemn promise to Yahweh. So you must do to me what you promised because you said that you would do that if Yahweh helped you to defeat our enemies the Ammonites."
 \v 37 Then she also said, "But allow me to do one thing. First, allow me to go into the hills and wander around for two months. Since I will never be married and have children, allow me and my friends to go and cry together."
 
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-\v 6 The woman ran and told her husband, "A man whom God sent came to me. I was very afraid of him, because he was like an angel from God. I did not ask where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
+\v 6 The woman ran and told her husband, "A man whom God sent came to me. I was very afraid of him because he was like an angel from God. I did not ask where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
 \v 7 But he told me, 'You will become pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. Until then, you must not drink any wine or any alcoholic drink, and you must not eat any food that God's law says you are not to eat. Your son will be a Nazirite (that is, one who is dedicated to God) before he is born and until the day he dies.'"
 
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 \v 21 Although Yahweh's angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized who this person really was.
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-\v 22 So Manoah said, "Now we are sure to die, because we have seen God!"
+\v 22 So Manoah said, "Now we are sure to die because we have seen God!"
 
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 \v 41 Then the main group of Israelite men also saw the smoke, and they knew that the smoke signaled that they should turn around and begin to attack. The men of the tribe of Benjamin were very afraid because they realized that they were about to have a disastrous defeat.
 
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-\v 42 So the men of the tribe of Benjamin tried to run away toward the wilderness to escape from the Israelite men, but they were not able to escape because the Israelite men who had burned the two cities came out of those cities and killed many of them.
+\v 42 So the men of the tribe of Benjamin tried to run away toward the wilderness to escape from the Israelite men, but they were not able to escape, because the Israelite men who had burned the two cities came out of those cities and killed many of them.
 
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 \v 43 They surrounded some of the men of the tribe of Benjamin and pursued the others to the area east of Gibeah.
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 \v 17 These men must have wives to give birth to children so that their families of Benjamin will continue. If that does not happen, all the people of one of the tribes of Israel will all die out, and the tribe will be destroyed.
 
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-\v 18 But we cannot allow our daughters to marry these men because we solemnly declared that Yahweh will curse anyone who gives one of his daughters to become a wife of any man of the tribe of Benjamin."
+\v 18 But we cannot allow our daughters to marry these men, because we solemnly declared that Yahweh will curse anyone who gives one of his daughters to become a wife of any man of the tribe of Benjamin."
 \v 19 Then they had an idea. They said, "Every year there is a festival to honor Yahweh at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel and east of the road that extends from Bethel to Shechem, and it is south of the city of Lebonah."
 
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