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-\v 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
+\v 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
 \v 2 When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate. Darkness covered the surface of the deep water. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.
 
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 \v 1 That is the way God created the heavens and the earth and the living things that filled them.
 \v 2 By the time it was the seventh day, God had finished the work of creating everything, so he did not work anymore on that day.
-\v 3 God declared that each seventh day would have his favor. He set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work anymore, after finishing all his work of creating everything.
+\v 3 God declared that each seventh day would have his favor. He set those days apart to be special days because on the seventh day God did not work anymore after finishing all his work of creating everything.
 
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 \v 4 What follows is how God created the heavens and the earth.
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 \v 21 So Yahweh God caused the man to become deeply asleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man's ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body and healed it.
 \v 22 Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man's body, and he brought her to the man.
-\v 23 The man exclaimed, "Finally, this is truly someone like me! Her bones came from one of my bones, and her flesh came from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man."
+\v 23 The man exclaimed, "Finally, this is truly someone like me! Her bones came from one of my bones, and her flesh came from my flesh. So I will call her woman because she was taken from me, a man."
 
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 \v 21 When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
 \v 22 Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for three hundred years after Methuselah was born, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
 \v 23 Enoch lived 365 years.
-\v 24 He was in close fellowship with God, and one day he disappeared, because God took him away to be with him.
+\v 24 He was in close fellowship with God, and one day he disappeared because God took him away to be with him.
 
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 \v 25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
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 \v 28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son,
-\v 29 whom he named Noah, because, as he said, "He will bring us relief from all the hard work we have been doing to produce food from the ground that Yahweh cursed."
+\v 29 whom he named Noah because, as he said, "He will bring us relief from all the hard work we have been doing to produce food from the ground that Yahweh cursed."
 
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 \v 30 Lamech lived 595 years after Noah was born and became the father of other sons and daughters.
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 \v 11 God could see that everyone else on earth was very wicked, and everywhere on the earth, people were acting cruelly and violently toward each other.
-\v 12 God looked at everyone and saw how evil people were, because all people on the earth had begun to behave in an evil way.
+\v 12 God looked at everyone and saw how evil people were because all people on the earth had begun to behave in an evil way.
 
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-\v 13 So God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all people, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.
+\v 13 So God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all people because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.
 \v 14 Make for yourself a large boat from cypress wood. Make rooms inside it. Cover the outside and the inside with tar to make it waterproof.
 \v 15 This is how you must make it: It must be 138 meters long, twenty-three meters wide, and fourteen meters high.
 
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 \v 8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded from the surface of the ground.
-\v 9 But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat, because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat.
+\v 9 But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat.
 
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 \v 10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
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 \v 3 Previously I allowed you to eat green plants for food, but now you may eat everything that lives and moves.
-\v 4 But you must not eat meat that still has the blood in it, because the life is in its blood.
+\v 4 But you must not eat meat that still has the blood in it because the life is in its blood.
 
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 \v 5 I punish any creature who kills a human being—that they answer to Yahweh—whether it be an animal or from a human being. I demand that murderers must suffer for their crimes and pay with their own lives. Even when an animal kills a person, that animal must also have their life taken because they have taken the life of a human being.
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 \v 8 By doing this, Yahweh caused them to scatter all over the earth, and the people stopped building the city.
-\v 9 The city was called Babel, because there Yahweh caused the people all over the earth to no longer speak only one language. And Yahweh caused them to scatter all over the earth from that place.
+\v 9 The city was called Babel because there Yahweh caused the people all over the earth to no longer speak only one language. And Yahweh caused them to scatter all over the earth from that place.
 
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-\v 10 There was a famine in that land, so they went south to live in the land of Egypt, because the lack of food in the land where they were was very severe.
+\v 10 There was a famine in that land, so they went south to live in the land of Egypt because the lack of food in the land where they were was very severe.
 \v 11 When they were coming near to the land of Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, "Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman.
 \v 12 When the people in Egypt see you, they will say, 'This woman is his wife!' and they will kill me, but they will not kill you.
 \v 13 So I ask you to tell them that you are my sister, so that I will be safe and so they will spare my life because of you."
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 \v 16 I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as particles of dust! If a man tried to count the particles of dust, it would be the same as if he tried to count your descendants.
-\v 17 Walk through the land in every direction, because I am going to give it all to you."
+\v 17 Walk through the land in every direction because I am going to give it all to you."
 \v 18 So Abram took down his tents and moved to Hebron and settled by the big trees of Mamre. He built a stone altar there to make sacrifices to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 19 Then he blessed Abram and said, "I ask the supreme God, the one who created heaven and earth, to bless you.
-\v 20 I praise the supreme God, because he has enabled you to defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave to Melchizedek a tenth part of all the things he had captured.
+\v 20 I praise the supreme God because he has enabled you to defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave to Melchizedek a tenth part of all the things he had captured.
 
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 \v 21 The King of Sodom said to Abram, "You can keep all the goods you recovered. Just let me take back the people from my city whom you captured."
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 \v 1 Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, "Do not be afraid of anything, I will protect you and I will give a great reward."
-\v 2 But Abram replied, "Lord Yahweh, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer, from Damascus!"
+\v 2 But Abram replied, "Lord Yahweh, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer from Damascus!"
 \v 3 Abram also said, "You have not given me any children, so a servant in my household will inherit everything that I own!"
 
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 \v 3 Abram bowed down with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
 \v 4 "Listen to this! This is the covenant I am making with you: You will be the father of many groups of people.
-\v 5 Your name will be Abram no longer. Instead, your name will be Abraham, because I will make you the father of many groups of people.
+\v 5 Your name will be Abram no longer. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of many groups of people.
 \v 6 I will cause you to have very, very many descendants, and I will cause nations and kings to be among them.
 
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 \v 11 Then they caused all the men who were outside the door of the house, young and old, to become blind, so that they could not find the door.
 
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-\v 12 Then the two angels said to Lot, "Who else is with you here? If you have sons or sons-in-law or daughters or anyone else in the city who is related to you, take them out of the city,
+\v 12 Then the two angels said to Lot, "Who else is with you here? If you have sons or sons-in-law or daughters or anyone else in the city who is related to you, take them out of the city
 \v 13 because we are going to destroy this place. Yahweh has heard many terrible things that some people have said about this city, and he has sent us to destroy it."
 
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-\v 14 So Lot went and spoke to the men who had pledged to marry his daughters. He said to them, "Hurry! Get out of this city, because Yahweh is about to destroy it!" But his future sons-in-law thought he was joking.
+\v 14 So Lot went and spoke to the men who had pledged to marry his daughters. He said to them, "Hurry! Get out of this city because Yahweh is about to destroy it!" But his future sons-in-law thought he was joking.
 \v 15 As it was about to dawn the next morning, the two angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up quickly! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here with you and leave! If you do not, you will be swept away when we destroy the city!"
 
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 \v 21 One of the angels said to Lot, "I will allow you to do what you have requested. And I will not destroy the town you are talking about.
-\v 22 But hurry! Run there, because I cannot destroy anything until you arrive." People later called the name of the town Zoar, which means 'not-important,' because Lot said that it was a small village.
+\v 22 But hurry! Run there because I cannot destroy anything until you arrive." People later called the name of the town Zoar, which means 'not-important,' because Lot said that it was a small village.
 
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 \v 6 God said to him, "Yes, I know that you did not want to do anything wrong. That is why I prevented you from sinning against me. I did not allow you to touch her.
-\v 7 Therefore, return this man's wife to her husband, because he is a prophet. He will pray for you so that you may live. But if you do not return her to him, you will certainly die, and all the members of your household will also certainly die."
+\v 7 Therefore, return this man's wife to her husband because he is a prophet. He will pray for you so that you may live. But if you do not return her to him, you will certainly die, and all the members of your household will also certainly die."
 
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 \v 8 Early the next morning, Abimelech summoned all his officials and told them everything that had happened. When they heard that, his men were very afraid that God would punish them.
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 \v 10 Why did you do this?"
 \v 11 Abraham replied, "I said that she was my sister because I thought, 'The people in this place certainly do not respect God. Certainly they do whatever wrong things they wish. So they will kill me to get my wife.'
-\v 12 Besides, Sarah really can be considered my sister, because she is the daughter of my father, although she is not the daughter of my mother. She is the daughter of another woman, and I married her.
+\v 12 Besides, Sarah really can be considered my sister because she is the daughter of my father although she is not the daughter of my mother. She is the daughter of another woman, and I married her.
 
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 \v 13 Later, when God told me to move away from my father's household, I said to her, 'This is the way you can show that you are faithful to me: Everywhere we go, say about me, "This is my brother."'"
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 \v 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech's wife and his slave girls so that they could have children.
-\v 18 This was because Yahweh had caused it to be impossible for any of the women in Abimelech's household to bear children, because Abimelech had taken Abraham's wife Sarah.
+\v 18 This was because Yahweh had caused it to be impossible for any of the women in Abimelech's household to bear children because Abimelech had taken Abraham's wife Sarah.
 
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 \v 10 So she said to Abraham, "Get rid of that slave woman from Egypt and her son! I do not want the son of that slave woman to take what my son Isaac will inherit."
-\v 11 Abraham was very upset about the matter, because he was also concerned about his son Ishmael.
+\v 11 Abraham was very upset about the matter because he was also concerned about his son Ishmael.
 
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 \v 12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about your son, Ishmael, and about your servant Hagar. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you to do, and do it, because Isaac is the one who will be the forefather of the descendants I promised to give you.
-\v 13 But I will also cause the son of your servant Hagar to be the ancestor of a great people, because he is also your son."
+\v 13 But I will also cause the son of your servant Hagar to be the ancestor of a great people because he is also your son."
 
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 \v 14 So Abraham got up early the next morning. He got some food ready, put water in a bag, and gave it to Hagar. He put the bag on her shoulder, handed her Ishmael, and sent them away into the wilderness of Beersheba.
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 \v 17 Soon God heard the sound of Ishmael, so he sent one of his angels to call out from heaven to Hagar. He said, "Hagar, what is the matter with you? Do not be afraid, because God has heard the boy crying there.
-\v 18 Go lift the boy up and help him be brave, because I will cause his descendants to become a great people."
+\v 18 Go lift the boy up and help him be brave because I will cause his descendants to become a great people."
 
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 \v 19 Then God showed her a well of water. So she went to the well and filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
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 \v 29 One day while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came home from the field, very hungry.
-\v 30 He said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stew to eat right now, because I am starving!" (That is why Esau's other name was Edom.)
+\v 30 He said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stew to eat right now because I am starving!" (That is why Esau's other name was Edom.)
 
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 \v 31 Jacob said, "I will give you some if you sell me your right as firstborn to inherit most of our father's wealth."
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 \v 2 But Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land that I tell you!
-\v 3 Stay in this land, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
+\v 3 Stay in this land, and I will help you and bless you because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
 
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 \v 4 I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to all the peoples on the earth.
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-\v 12 Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh had blessed him.
+\v 12 Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop because Yahweh had blessed him.
 \v 13 Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
 \v 14 He had large herds of sheep, goats, and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
 
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 \v 22 So Jacob went close to his father, Isaac. Isaac touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands feel hairy, like the hands of his older brother, Esau."
-\v 23 Isaac did not recognize him, because he was blind and because Jacob's hands were hairy, like those of his older brother, Esau. So Isaac got ready to bless him.
+\v 23 Isaac did not recognize him because he was blind and because Jacob's hands were hairy, like those of his older brother Esau. So Isaac got ready to bless him.
 
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 \v 24 But first Isaac asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" Jacob replied, "Yes, I am."
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 \v 35 But his father said, "Your brother came, tricked me, and took your blessing!"
 
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-\v 36 Esau said, "It is right that his name is Jacob, because he tricked me two times. The first time he took my rights as firstborn, and this time he took my blessing!" Then he asked, "Do you not have any blessing left for me?"
+\v 36 Esau said, "It is right that his name is Jacob because he tricked me two times. The first time he took my rights as firstborn, and this time he took my blessing!" Then he asked, "Do you not have any blessing left for me?"
 \v 37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, "I have declared that your younger brother will rule over you, and I have declared that all his relatives will serve him. And I have said that God will give him plenty of grain and grapes for wine. So, my son, what can I do for you?"
 
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 \v 19 Laban replied, "It is better for me to let you marry her than for her to marry some other man! You should stay here with us."
-\v 20 So Jacob worked for Laban for seven years to get Rachel, but to him it seemed like it was only a few days, because he loved her so much.
+\v 20 So Jacob worked for Laban for seven years to get Rachel, but to him it seemed like it was only a few days because he loved her so much.
 
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-\v 21 After the seven years were ended, Jacob said to Laban, "Let me marry Rachel now, because the time we agreed upon for me to work for you has ended, and I want to marry her."
+\v 21 After the seven years were ended, Jacob said to Laban, "Let me marry Rachel now because the time we agreed upon for me to work for you has ended, and I want to marry her."
 \v 22 So Laban gathered together all the people who lived in that area and made a feast.
 
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-\v 16 When Jacob returned from the wheat fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. She said, "You must sleep with me tonight, because I gave Rachel some mandrake plants to pay her for allowing us to do that." So Jacob slept with her that night.
+\v 16 When Jacob returned from the wheat fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. She said, "You must sleep with me tonight because I gave Rachel some mandrake plants to pay her for allowing us to do that." So Jacob slept with her that night.
 \v 17 God answered Leah's prayers, and she became pregnant and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
 \v 18 Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband to be another wife for him." So she named him Issachar, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "reward."
 
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 \v 19 Leah became pregnant again and bore a sixth son for Jacob.
-\v 20 Leah said, "God has given me a precious gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given birth to six sons for him." So she named him Zebulun.
+\v 20 Leah said, "God has given me a precious gift. This time my husband will honor me because I have given birth to six sons for him." So she named him Zebulun.
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 \v 21 Later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
 
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 \v 26 You know the work that I have done for you. So let me take my wives and my children for whom I worked for you to get them, and leave."
 
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-\v 27 But Laban said to him, "If you are pleased with me, stay here, because I have found out by performing a magic ritual that Yahweh has blessed me because of what you have done for me.
+\v 27 But Laban said to him, "If you are pleased with me, stay here because I have found out by performing a magic ritual that Yahweh has blessed me because of what you have done for me.
 \v 28 Tell me what you want me to pay you for continuing to work for me, and that is what I will pay you."
 
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 \v 10 I am not worthy for you to have kept your covenant in so many faithful and trustworthy ways with me, your servant. I had only this walking stick with me when I crossed the Jordan River on my way to Haran, but now I am so wealthy that there are two large groups of my family and possessions.
 
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-\v 11 So now I pray that you will rescue me from the power of my brother Esau, because I am afraid that he and his men will come and attack and kill me and the children and their mothers.
+\v 11 So now I pray that you will rescue me from the power of my brother Esau because I am afraid that he and his men will come and attack and kill me and the children and their mothers.
 \v 12 But do not forget that you have said, 'I will certainly enable you to prosper, and I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, which are so many that no one can count them.'"
 
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 \v 24 So Jacob was left there alone. But a man came and wrestled with him until dawn.
 \v 25 When the man realized that he was not winning against Jacob, he struck Jacob's hip and caused the thigh bone to pull away from the hip socket.
-\v 26 Then the man said, "Let me go, because it will soon be daylight." Jacob replied, "No, if you will not bless me, I will not let you go!"
+\v 26 Then the man said, "Let me go because it will soon be daylight." Jacob replied, "No, if you will not bless me, I will not let you go!"
 
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 \v 27 The man said to him, "What is your name?" He replied, "Jacob."
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 \v 9 But Esau replied, "My younger brother, I have enough animals! Keep for yourself the animals that you have!"
 \v 10 But Jacob said, "No, please, if you feel good toward me, accept these gifts from me. You have greeted me very kindly. Seeing you smile at me assures me that you have forgiven me. It is like seeing the face of God!
-\v 11 Please accept these gifts that I have brought to you, because God has acted kindly toward me, and I still have plenty of animals!" Jacob kept on urging him to accept the animals, and finally Esau accepted them.
+\v 11 Please accept these gifts that I have brought to you because God has acted kindly toward me, and I still have plenty of animals!" Jacob kept on urging him to accept the animals, and finally Esau accepted them.
 
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 \v 6 In the meantime, Shechem's father Hamor went to talk with Jacob.
-\v 7 Jacob's sons came in from the field, and when they had found out what had happened, they were shocked and very angry, because Shechem had brought much shame to Israel by forcing himself on Jacob's daughter. She was their sister! This was a terrible crime that should never be done.
+\v 7 Jacob's sons came in from the field, and when they had found out what had happened, they were shocked and very angry because Shechem had brought much shame to Israel by forcing himself on Jacob's daughter. She was their sister! This was a terrible crime that should never be done.
 
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-\v 3 Jacob loved Joseph more than he loved any of his other children, because Joseph had been born when Jacob was an old man. Jacob had someone make for Joseph a beautiful piece of clothing with long sleeves.
+\v 3 Jacob loved Joseph more than he loved any of his other children because Joseph had been born when Jacob was an old man. Jacob had someone make for Joseph a beautiful piece of clothing with long sleeves.
 \v 4 When Joseph's older brothers realized that their father loved him more than he loved any of them, they hated him. They never spoke kindly to him.
 
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 \v 14 She realized that now Shelah was grown up, but Judah had not given her to him to be his wife. So she took off her widow's clothes and covered her head with a veil, so that people would not recognize her. Then she sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.
 
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-\v 15 When Judah came along and saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, because she had covered her head and sat where prostitutes often sat.
+\v 15 When Judah came along and saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her head and sat where prostitutes often sat.
 \v 16 Judah did not realize that she was his daughter-in-law. So he said to her, "Let me sleep with you." She replied, "What will you give me in exchange?"
 
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 \v 19 Soon seven other cows, ugly and thin ones, came up behind them from the river. I never saw such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
 \v 20 The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
-\v 21 But afterwards, no one would have known that the thin cows ate them, because they were just as ugly as they were before. Then I woke up.
+\v 21 But afterwards, no one would have known that the thin cows ate them because they were just as ugly as they were before. Then I woke up.
 
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 \v 27 The seven thin ugly cows that came up behind them and the seven worthless heads of grain that were dried up by the hot east wind each represent seven years of famine.
-\v 28 It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
+\v 28 It will happen just as I have told you because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
 \v 29 There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt.
 
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-\v 30 Then there will be seven years of famine. Then people will forget all the years when there was plenty of food, because the famine that will come afterward will ruin the country.
-\v 31 The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
+\v 30 Then there will be seven years of famine. Then people will forget all the years when there was plenty of food because the famine that will come afterward will ruin the country.
+\v 31 The people will forget how plentiful food was previously because the famine will be very terrible.
 \v 32 The reason God gave to you two dreams is that he has firmly decided that this will happen, and he will cause it to happen very soon.
 
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 \v 48 As Joseph supervised them, his helpers collected one-fifth of all the grain that was produced during those years, and stored it in the cities. In each city, he had his helpers store up the grain that was grown in the fields that surrounded that city.
-\v 49 Joseph had them store up a huge amount of grain. It looked as plentiful as the sand on the seashore. There was so much grain that after a while they stopped keeping records of how much grain was stored, because there was more grain than they could measure.
+\v 49 Joseph had them store up a huge amount of grain. It looked as plentiful as the sand on the seashore. There was so much grain that after a while they stopped keeping records of how much grain was stored because there was more grain than they could measure.
 
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 \v 53 Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
-\v 54 Then the seven years of famine started, just as Joseph had predicted. There was also a famine in all the other nearby lands, but although the crops did not grow, there was food everywhere in Egypt, because of the grain they had stored up in the cities.
+\v 54 Then the seven years of famine started, just as Joseph had predicted. There was also a famine in all the other nearby lands, but although the crops did not grow, there was food everywhere in Egypt because of the grain they had stored up in the cities.
 
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 \v 55 When all the people of Egypt had eaten all of their own food and were still hungry, they begged the king for food. So the king told all the people of Egypt, "Go to Joseph and do what he tells you to do."
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-\v 56 When the famine was very bad over the whole country, Joseph ordered his helpers to open the storehouses. Then they sold the grain in the storehouses to the people of Egypt, because the famine was very severe all over Egypt.
-\v 57 People from many nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere.
+\v 56 When the famine was very bad over the whole country, Joseph ordered his helpers to open the storehouses. Then they sold the grain in the storehouses to the people of Egypt because the famine was very severe all over Egypt.
+\v 57 People from many nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph because the famine was very severe everywhere.
 
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@@ -2630,7 +2630,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
 \v 2 He said to them, "Someone told me that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, in order that we can stay alive!"
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 \v 3 So Joseph's ten older brothers went down to Egypt to buy some grain.
-\v 4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's younger brother, to go with the others, because he was afraid that something terrible might happen to him like what happened to Joseph.
+\v 4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's younger brother, to go with the others because he was afraid that something terrible might happen to him like what happened to Joseph.
 
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 \v 5 So Jacob's sons went down from Canaan to Egypt to buy grain, and others went too, because there was a famine in Canaan also.
@@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
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 \v 11 Then their father Jacob said to them, "If there is no other way, do this: Put in your sacks some of the best things that are grown in this land, and take them down to the man as a gift. Take some balm and honey and spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts, and almonds.
-\v 12 Take twice as much money as you took the previous time, because you must return the silver that someone put in the tops of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake that it was put in your sacks.
+\v 12 Take twice as much money as you took the previous time because you must return the silver that someone put in the tops of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake that it was put in your sacks.
 
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 \v 13 Take your youngest brother and go back to that man.
@@ -2737,7 +2737,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
 \v 15 So the men took the gifts that Jacob said that they should take, and twice the amount of money that the grain would cost. They also took Benjamin. They went down quickly to Egypt, and they stood in front of Joseph.
 
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-\v 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the man who was in charge of things in his house, "Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare a meal, because I want them to eat with me at noon." He told his servant in what order they were to be seated.
+\v 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the man who was in charge of things in his house, "Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare a meal because I want them to eat with me at noon." He told his servant in what order they were to be seated.
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 \v 17 The man did as Joseph said; he took them to Joseph's house.
 
@@ -2955,7 +2955,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
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 \v 19 Joseph and Benjamin, the sons of Jacob's wife Rachel;
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-\v 20 (Ephraim and Manasseh were Joseph's two sons. They did not go down to Egypt because they had been born in Egypt. They were sons of Asenath, the daughter of On, who was the priest in the temple in the city of On.)
+\v 20 (Ephraim and Manasseh were Joseph's two sons. They did not go down to Egypt, because they had been born in Egypt. They were sons of Asenath, the daughter of On, who was the priest in the temple in the city of On.)
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 \v 21 Benjamin and his sons Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard;
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@@ -2996,7 +2996,7 @@ I ask that God curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless you."
 
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 \v 3 The king asked the brothers, "What work do you do?" They replied to the king, "Your servants are  shepherds, just as our ancestors were."
-\v 4 They also said to him, "We have come here to live for a while in this land, because the famine is very severe in Canaan, and our animals have no pasture there. So now, please let your servants live in the region of Goshen."
+\v 4 They also said to him, "We have come here to live for a while in this land because the famine is very severe in Canaan, and our animals have no pasture there. So now, please let your servants live in the region of Goshen."
 
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@@ -3131,7 +3131,7 @@ because you climbed up onto my bed and slept with my concubine. That caused me,
 \v 5 Simeon and Levi, you two brothers have both acted like criminals.
 You use your swords to act violently.
 \v 6 I do not want to be with you when you make evil plans.
-I am too honorable to join you in your meetings,
+I am too honorable to join you in your meetings
 because you killed people when you became very angry,
 and you hamstrung oxen just to have fun.
 
@@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ I will scatter their descendants throughout the land of Israel.'
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 \v 8 Judah, your older and younger brothers will praise you.
-They will bow down before you,
+They will bow down before you
 because you will thoroughly defeat your enemies.
 
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 and shoot at them with bows and arrows and pursue them.
 
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-\v 24 But they will hold their bows steady and their arms will remain strong,
+\v 24 But they will hold their bows steady and their arms will remain strong
 because of the power of my mighty God,
-because of Yahweh, who guides and provides for me,
+because of Yahweh who guides and provides for me
 as a shepherd guides and provides for his sheep.
 The people of Israel will ask Yahweh to protect them,
 as people take refuge on top of a high rock.
@@ -3235,7 +3235,7 @@ He will give them many children and will nourish them.
 \v 26 The blessings that I want God to give you are great ones.
 They are greater than the blessings that come from the eternal mountains,
 than the ones that come from the everlasting hills.
-Joseph, I pray that these blessings will be given to you,
+Joseph, I pray that these blessings will be given to you
 because you are the leader of your brothers.
 
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@@ -3263,7 +3263,7 @@ and in the evening they will divide among their warriors the spoils that they se
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 \v 1 Joseph fell on his father's face and he cried over him and kissed him.
 \v 2 Joseph commanded his servants who prepared the dead for burial to embalm his father's body.
-\v 3 It took forty days to embalm Jacob's body, because that is the amount of time that was always required for them to embalm a body. The people of Egypt cried for seventy days because of Jacob's death.
+\v 3 It took forty days to embalm Jacob's body because that is the amount of time that was always required for them to embalm a body. The people of Egypt cried for seventy days because of Jacob's death.
 
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 \v 4 When the time of mourning was finished, Joseph said to the king's officials, "If you are pleased with me, please take this message to the king:
@@ -3290,7 +3290,7 @@ and in the evening they will divide among their warriors the spoils that they se
 
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-\v 15 After Jacob died, Joseph's brothers became worried. They realized what might happen. They said, "What will happen if Joseph is carrying hatred for us and wants to take revenge on us, because of all the evil things we did to him many years ago?"
+\v 15 After Jacob died, Joseph's brothers became worried. They realized what might happen. They said, "What will happen if Joseph is carrying hatred for us and wants to take revenge on us because of all the evil things we did to him many years ago?"
 \v 16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: "Before our father died, he told us this:
 \v 17 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive your older brothers for the evil thing that they did to you, for their terrible sin against you, because what they did to you was very wrong.' So now we, who are servants of your father's God, ask you, please forgive us for what we did to you." Joseph cried when he received their message.