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 \v 2 "At that time I, Daniel, had been sad for three weeks about what had happened to Jerusalem.
-\v 3 I did not eat any tasty food or any meat nor did I drink any wine. I did not even put any perfumed oil on my face or hair for those three weeks.
+\v 3 I did not eat any tasty food or any meat, nor did I drink any wine. I did not even put any perfumed oil on my face or hair for those three weeks.
 
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 \v 4 When those three weeks ended, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, my companions and I were standing on the bank of the Tigris River.
 \v 5 I looked up and saw someone there who was wearing fine white clothes and a belt made of pure gold.
-\v 6 His body shone like a precious beryl stone. His face was as bright as a flash of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches. His arms and legs shone like gleaming bronze. His voice was very loud like the roar of a huge crowd.
+\v 6 His body shone like a precious beryl stone. His face was as bright as a flash of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches. His arms and legs shone like gleaming bronze. His voice was very loud, like the roar of a huge crowd.
 
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-\v 10 Suddenly someone's hand took hold of me and lifted me, with the result that I was on my hands and knees, but I was still trembling.
+\v 10 Suddenly, someone's hand took hold of me and lifted me, with the result that I was on my hands and knees, but I was still trembling.
 \v 11 The angel said to me, "Daniel, God loves you very much. Stand up and listen to what I am going to say to you because God sent me to you." When he said that, I stood up, but I was still trembling.
 
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 \v 13 The evil spirit who rules the kingdom of Persia resisted me for twenty-one days, and I had to stay there for that time with the various kings over whom the Persian king was ruling. But Michael, who is one of God's chief angels, came to help me. I left him there in Persia to resist that evil spirit.
 
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-\v 14 I have come here to help you understand what will happen to the Israelite people in the future. Do not forget that the vision you saw is about things that will happen in the future, and not about things that will happen very soon."
+\v 14 I have come here to help you understand what will happen to the Israelite people in the future. Do not forget that the vision you saw is about things that will happen in the future and not about things that will happen very soon."
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 \v 15 While he was still saying that, I looked down at the ground and was unable to say anything.
 
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-\v 20-21 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? It is to reveal to you what is written in the book which reveals God's truth. But now I must return to fight against the evil spirit who rules the kingdom of Persia. After I have defeated him, the evil angel who guards Greece will appear and I must defeat him. Michael, who guards you Israelite people, will certainly help me, but there is no one else to help me."
+\v 20-21 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? It is to reveal to you what is written in the book that reveals God's truth. But now I must return to fight against the evil spirit who rules the kingdom of Persia. After I have defeated him, the evil angel who guards Greece will appear and I must defeat him. Michael, who guards you Israelite people, will certainly help me, but there is no one else to help me."
 
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-\v 1 In the first year of Darius the Mede, I myself came to help and encourage Michael.
+\v 1 "In the first year of Darius the Mede, I myself came to help and encourage Michael.
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 \v 2 What I am going to reveal to you now will truly happen. There will be three more kings to rule Persia, one after the other. Then there will be a fourth king, who will be much richer than the others. He will gain his power through money. Then he will incite everyone to fight against the kingdom of Greece.
 
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 \v 12 The king of the South will become very proud because his army will defeat a very large number of soldiers and will kill many of his enemies. But he will not succeed.
 
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-\v 13 The king of the North will again gather together an army that will be bigger than the one that he had before. After a few years, the king of the North will come again with a large army and a lot of equipment for fighting battles.
+\v 13 The king of the North will again gather together an army that will be larger than the one that he had before. After a few years, the king of the North will come again with a large army and much equipment for fighting battles.
 
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-\v 14 At that time, many will rebel against the king of the South. In order to fulfill a certain vision, some violent people from your country of Israel will also rebel against him, but they will not succeed.
+\v 14 At that time, many people will rebel against the king of the South. In order to fulfill a certain vision, some violent people from your country of Israel will also rebel against him, but they will not succeed.
 
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 \v 15 Then the king of the North will come with his army and pile up earth against the walls of a city that is well protected, and they will break through those walls and will capture the city. The soldiers from the South who have come to defend that city, even the best troops, will not be strong enough to continue to fight.
 \v 16 So the king of the North will do whatever he wants against the king of the South, and no one will be able to oppose him. He will occupy the glorious land of Israel and will have the power to destroy it.
 
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-\v 17 Then the king of the North will decide to march south with all the soldiers from his kingdom. He will make an alliance with the king of the South and in order that his daughter will help him to destroy the kingdom of the South, he will give her to the king of the South to become his wife. But that plan will fail.
+\v 17 Then the king of the North will decide to march south with all the soldiers from his kingdom. He will make an alliance with the king of the South, and so that his daughter will help him to destroy the kingdom of the South, he will give her to the king of the South to become his wife. But that plan will fail.
 \v 18 After that, the army of the king of the North will attack the regions that are close to the Mediterranean Sea, and his army will conquer many of them. But the army of a leader from another country will defeat him and will stop him from being proud. He will also turn his pride against him.
 \v 19 Then the king of the North will return to the fortresses in his own land. But he will be defeated, and no one will be able to find him.
 
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 \v 20 Then another man will succeed him. He is one who will force taxes upon the people to supply the beauty of the palace, but that king will die after a short time. However, he will not die as a result of people being angry with him or in a battle.
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 \v 21 The next king will be an evil man who is hated because he is not the son of the previous king, and he will not have the right to become king. But he will come in without any objection when people do not expect it, and he will become king by tricking the people.
-\v 22 When his army advances, they will attack any armies that oppose him and their enemies will be swept away before them like a flood. Their enemies and the head of the priests will be swept away.
+\v 22 When his army advances, it will attack any armies that oppose him and their enemies will be swept away before it like a flood. Their enemies and the head of the priests will be swept away.
 
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-\v 23 By making treaties with the rulers of other nations, he will deceive them, and he will become very powerful, even though he rules a nation that does not have a lot of people.
+\v 23 By making treaties with the rulers of other nations, he will deceive them, and he will become very powerful, even though he rules a nation that does not have many people.
 \v 24 Suddenly his army will invade a province that is very wealthy, and they will do things that none of his ancestors did: They will capture in battles all kinds of possessions from the people whom they defeat. Then the king will divide those possessions among his friends. He will also plan for his army to attack fortresses, but only for a short time.
 
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 \v 27 Then the two kings who both want to rule that area will sit down at the same table and talk together, but they will both lie to each other. Neither of them will get what he wants because only God will cause the result of their actions to happen, at the future time that he has determined.
 
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-\v 28 The army of the king of the North will return to its land, taking with them all the valuable things that they have captured. The king will try to make the people stop obeying God's covenant with them. He will do what he wants to in Israel, and then he will return to his own country.
+\v 28 The army of the king of the North will return to its land, taking with it all the valuable things that it will capture. The king will try to make the people stop obeying God's covenant with them. He will do what he wants to in Israel, and then he will return to his own country.
 
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 \v 32 By deceiving those who have abandoned God's covenant with Israel, he will win them over to become his supporters. But those who are devoted to their God will firmly oppose them.
 
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-\v 33 The wise among the leaders of Israel will teach others also. But for a while, they will be killed in battles, or burned to death, or made slaves, or robbed.
+\v 33 The wise among the leaders of Israel will teach others also. But for a while they will be killed in battles or burned to death or made slaves or robbed.
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 \v 34 While God's people are being persecuted, some people will help them a little, although some of those who help them will not do it for good reasons.
 \v 35 After some of those wise leaders suffer these things, God will make his people become the best possible people for himself. Also, God has set a time in the future when he will finish doing all these things.
 
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-\v 36 The king will do what he wants. He will boast and say that he is greater than any god. He will even insult the most high God. He will be able to do what he wants until the time when God is ready to show that he is angry with him, for what God has ordered will happen.
+\v 36 The king will do what he wants. He will boast and say that he is greater than any god. He will even insult the Most High God. He will be able to do what he wants until the time when God is ready to show that he is angry with him, for what God has ordered will happen.
 \v 37 The king will ignore the gods that his ancestors worshiped and the god that women love. He will ignore every god because he will pretend to be greater than any of them.
 
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-\v 38 But he will honor the god of fortresses. That is a god whom his ancestors did not honor. He will give gold and silver, jewels and other expensive gifts to that god.
+\v 38 But he will honor the god of fortresses. That is a god whom his ancestors did not honor. He will give gold and silver, jewels, and other expensive gifts to that god.
 \v 39 He will employ people from another country who worship a different god to help him attack the strongest fortresses. He will greatly honor those who allow him to be their ruler. He will appoint some of them to important positions in the government, and he will reward them by dividing up the land among them.
 
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 \v 40 But when his time to rule is almost ended, the army of the king of the South will come, but the king of the North will attack first. The army will fight, moving against its enemies like a flood, and they will attack with many ships.
-\v 41 They will invade the glorious land of Israel and many will fall, but the people of Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon who survive will escape alive.
+\v 41 They will invade the glorious land of Israel and many will fall, but the people of Edom, the people of Moab, and the people of Ammon who survive will escape alive.
 
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 \v 42 He will invade other countries and conquer them. He will also defeat the people of Egypt.
-\v 43 The army of the North will take away the treasuries of gold and silver, and the riches of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will serve the king of the North.
+\v 43 The army of the North will take away the treasuries of gold and silver and the riches of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will serve the king of the North.
 
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 \v 44 But he will become very frightened when he hears reports about what is happening in the east and in the north. So he will become very angry and will send his army to fight furiously and to kill many of their enemies.
 \v 45 The king will set up his royal tents in the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hill in Jerusalem, the location of the temple. But someone will kill him there, and there will be no one to help him."
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 \v 10 Many people will be made pure, and they will be refined, but the wicked people will continue to act wickedly. Only those who are wise will understand these things.
-\v 11 There will be 1,290 days from the time that people are prevented from offering sacrifices each day, that is, from the time that the enemy brings into the temple the abominable thing that will make it like a wilderness unacceptable to God.
+\v 11 There will be 1,290 days from the time that people are prevented from offering sacrifices each day; that is, from the time that the enemy brings into the temple the abominable thing that will make it like a wilderness unacceptable to God.
 
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 \v 12 God will be pleased with those who remain faithful until the end of 1,335 days.