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06-JOS/01.usfm

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 \v 15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest just as he has given it to you. Then they also will take possession of the land Yahweh your God gives them. Then you will return to your own land and possess it, the land that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan, where the sun rises."
 
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-\v 16 And they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
+\v 16 Then they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
 \v 17 We will obey you just as we obeyed Moses. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.
 \v 18 Whoever rebels against your commands and disobeys your words will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous."
 

06-JOS/04.usfm

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 \v 8 The people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded, and they picked up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh said to Joshua. They set the stones up according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel. They carried the stones with them, over to the place where they camped and they set them down there.
-\v 9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River, in the place where the feet of the priests that carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the memorial is there to this day.
+\v 9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River, in the place where the feet of the priests that carried the ark of the covenant stood. The memorial is there to this day.
 
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 \v 10 The priests that carried the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything that Yahweh commanded Joshua to tell the people was completed, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people hurried and they crossed over.

06-JOS/05.usfm

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 \v 7 It was their children that Yahweh raised up in their place that Joshua circumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
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 \v 8 When they were all circumcised, they remained where they were in the camp until they healed.
-\v 9 And Yahweh said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you." So, the name of that place has been called Gilgal until this present day.
+\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you." So, the name of that place has been called Gilgal until this present day.
 
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 \v 10 The people of Israel camped at Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the plains of Jericho.
-\v 11 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened bread, and roasted grain.
+\v 11 They ate some of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover: unleavened bread, and roasted grain.
 
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 \v 12 The manna stopped on the day after they ate the produce of the land. There was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate the produce of the land of Canaan that year.
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 \v 14 He said, "Neither. For I am the commander of the army of Yahweh. Now I have come." Then Joshua lay facedown on the ground to worship and said to him, "What does my master say to his servant?"
-\v 15 The commander of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, because the place you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
+\v 15 The commander of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, because the place you are standing is holy." That is what Joshua did.
 
 
 

06-JOS/06.usfm

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 \v 6 Then Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark of Yahweh."
-\v 7 And he said to the people, "Go over and march around the city, and the armed men will go ahead of the ark of Yahweh."
+\v 7 He said to the people, "Go over and march around the city, and the armed men will go ahead of the ark of Yahweh."
 
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 \v 19 All the silver, gold, and the things made of bronze and iron are set apart to Yahweh. They must go into the treasury of Yahweh."
 
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-\v 20 So the people shouted, and they gave blasts with the trumpets. It came about when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat so that the people went up into the city, everyone straight ahead. And they captured the city.
+\v 20 When they gave blasts with the trumpets, the people gave a great shout  and the wall fell down flat, so every man charged straight in and captured the city.
 \v 21 They completely destroyed all that was in the city by the edge of the sword—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep and donkeys.
 
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 \v 23 So the young men who had been spies went in and brought Rahab out. They brought out her father, mother, brothers, and all the relatives that were with her. They brought them to a place outside the camp of Israel.
-\v 24 And they burned the city and everything in it. Only the silver, gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron were put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.
+\v 24 They burned the city and everything in it. Only the silver, gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron were put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.
 
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 \v 25 But Joshua allowed Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that were with her to live. She lives in Israel to this day because she hid the men whom Joshua sent to spy on Jericho.

06-JOS/07.usfm

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 \v 4 So only about three thousand men went up from the army, but these ran away from the men of Ai.
-\v 5 The men of Ai killed about thirty-six men as they pursued them from the city gate as far as to the stone quarries, and they killed them as they were going down a hill. And the hearts of the people were afraid and their courage left them.
+\v 5 The men of Ai killed about thirty-six men as they pursued them from the city gate as far as to the stone quarries, and they killed them as they were going down a hill. The hearts of the people were afraid and their courage left them.
 
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 \v 8 Lord, what can I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
-\v 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it. They will surround us and make the people of the earth forget our name. And so what will you do for your great name?"
+\v 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it. They will surround us and make the people of the earth forget our name. What will you do for your great name?"
 
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 \v 24 Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, the coat, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
 
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-\v 25 Then Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today." All Israel stoned him with stones. And they burned them all, and they stoned them.
+\v 25 Then Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today." All Israel stoned him with stones. Then they stoned the rest with stones and burned them with fire. 
 \v 26 They set up over him a great heap of stones that is here until this day. Yahweh turned away his burning anger. Therefore the name of the place is the valley of Achor until this present day.
 
 

06-JOS/08.usfm

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 \v 4 He commanded them, "Look, you will lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
 
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-\v 5 I and all the men with me will approach the city. And when they come out to attack us, we will run away from them just as before.
+\v 5 I and all the men with me will approach the city, and when they come out to attack us, we will run away from them just as before.
 \v 6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city. They will say, 'They are running away from us as they did the last time.' So we will run away from them.
 \v 7 Then you come up out of your place of hiding, and you will capture the city. Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.
 
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 \v 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw the ambush had captured the city with the smoke rising, they turned around and killed the men of Ai.
 
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-\v 22 And the other soldiers of Israel, those who had gone in the city, came out to attack them. So the men of Ai were caught between the armies of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. Israel attacked the men of Ai; none of them survived or escaped.
+\v 22 The other soldiers of Israel, those who had gone in the city, came out to attack them. So the men of Ai were caught between the armies of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. Israel attacked the men of Ai; none of them survived or escaped.
 \v 23 They kept the king of Ai, whom they captured alive, and they brought him to Joshua.
 
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 \v 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
-\v 31 just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded the people of Israel, as it was written in the book of the law of Moses: "An altar from uncut stones, on which no one has wielded an iron tool." And he offered on it burnt offerings to Yahweh, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
-\v 32 And there in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.
+\v 31 just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded the people of Israel, as it was written in the book of the law of Moses: "An altar from uncut stones, on which no one has wielded an iron tool." He offered on the altar burnt offerings to Yahweh, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
+\v 32 There, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.
 
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 \v 33 All Israel, their elders, officers, and their judges stood on both sides of the ark before the priests and Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh—the foreigner as well as the native born—half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half stood in front of Mount Ebal. They blessed the people of Israel, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded them at first.

06-JOS/10.usfm

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-\v 1 Now Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured Ai and had completely destroyed it, just as he had done to Jericho and its king. And he heard how the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them.
+\v 1 Now when Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured Ai and had completely destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king), he also heard how the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them.
 \v 2 The people of Jerusalem were very afraid because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty warriors.
 
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 \v 9 Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.
-\v 10 And Yahweh confused the enemy before Israel— who killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and who pursued them on the road going up to Beth Horon, and who killed them on the road to Azekah and Makkedah.
+\v 10 Yahweh confused the enemy before Israel, and Israel killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and pursued them on the road going up to Beth Horon, and they killed them on the road to Azekah and Makkedah.
 
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 \v 11 As they ran away from Israel, down the hill from Beth Horon, Yahweh threw large stones down from heaven upon them all the way to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than who were killed with the sword by the men of Israel.
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 \v 20 Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished slaughtering them with a very great slaughter, until they were almost completely destroyed; only a few survivors who escaped reached the fortified cities.
-\v 21 Then the whole army returned in peace to Joshua at the camp at Makkedah. And no one dared to say one word against any of the people of Israel.
+\v 21 Then the whole army returned in peace to Joshua at the camp at Makkedah. No one dared to say one word against any of the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 23 They did as he said. They brought to him these five kings from the cave—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
 
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-\v 24 And when they brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned every man of Israel, and he said to the commanders of the soldiers who had gone into battle with him, "Put your feet on their necks." So they came up and put their feet on their necks.
+\v 24 When they brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned every man of Israel. He said to the commanders of the soldiers who had gone into battle with him, "Put your feet on their necks." So they came up and put their feet on their necks.
 \v 25 Then he said to them, "Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Be strong and courageous. This is what Yahweh will do to all your enemies you are going to fight."
 
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06-JOS/11.usfm

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 \v 13 Israel did not burn any of the cities built on mounds, except Hazor. It alone Joshua burned.
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 \v 14 The army of Israel took all the plunder from these cities along with the livestock for themselves. They killed every human being with the sword until all were dead. They left no living creature alive.
-\v 15 Just as Yahweh had commanded his servant Moses, in the same way, Moses commanded Joshua. And so Joshua did not leave undone anything of all that Yahweh commanded Moses to do.
+\v 15 Just as Yahweh had commanded his servant Moses, in the same way, Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did it. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses to do.
 
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06-JOS/14.usfm

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 \v 2 Their inheritance was selected by lot for the nine and one-half tribes, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
 \v 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance.
-\v 4 The tribe of Joseph was actually two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the inheritance was given to the Levites in the land, but only certain cities to live in, with their pasturelands for livestock and for their own material resources.
+\v 4 The tribe of Joseph was actually two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were given no portion of the inheritance in the land, but only certain cities to live in, with their pasturelands for livestock and for their own material resources.
 \v 5 The people of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, so they assigned the land.
 
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06-JOS/15.usfm

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 \v 17 When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, captured it, Caleb gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.
 
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-\v 18 Soon after that, Achsah came to Othniel and she urged him to ask her father for a field. And when she got off her donkey, Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
+\v 18 Soon after that, Achsah came to Othniel and she urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
 
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-\v 19 Achsah replied, "Do me a special favor. Since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also some springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and lower springs.
+\v 19 Achsah replied, "Do me a special favor, since you have given me the land of the Negev: also give me some springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and lower springs.
 
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06-JOS/18.usfm

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 \v 9 The men left and walked up and down in the land and wrote a description of it in a scroll by its cities in seven sections, listing the cities in each section. Then they returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh.
 
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-\v 10 Then Joshua cast lots for them at Shiloh before Yahweh. And there Joshua assigned the land to the people of Israel—to each was given his portion of the land.
+\v 10 Then Joshua cast lots for them at Shiloh before Yahweh. It was there  that Joshua assigned the land to the people of Israel, and to each was given his portion of the land.
 
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06-JOS/20.usfm

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 \v 4 He will run to one of those cities and will stand at the entrance of the city gate, and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they will take him into the city and give him a place for him to live among them.
 
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-\v 5 And if one comes to try to avenge the blood of the person who was killed, then the people of the city must not hand over to the authorities the one who killed him. They must not do this, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and had no hatred toward him beforehand.
+\v 5 If one of them comes to try to avenge the blood of the person who was killed, then the people of the city must not hand the one who killed him over to the authorities. They must not do this because he killed his neighbor unintentionally, and he had no hatred toward him in the past.
 \v 6 He must stay in that city until he has stood before the assembly for judgment, until the death of the one who was serving as high priest in those days. Then the one who had accidentally killed the person may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'"
 
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06-JOS/21.usfm

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-\v 6 And the people descended from Gershon were given by the casting of lots thirteen cities from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
+\v 6 Then the people descended from Gershon were given, by the casting of lots, thirteen cities from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
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 \v 7 The people who were descendants of Merari received twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
 
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-\v 8 So the people of Israel gave these cities, including their pasturelands, to the Levites by casting lots, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
+\v 8 So the people of Israel gave, by casting lots, these cities (including their pasturelands) to the Levites, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
 \v 9 From the tribes of Judah and Simeon, they assigned land to the following cities, here listed by name.
 \v 10 These cities were given to the descendants of Aaron, who were among the clans of the Kohathites, who in turn were from the tribe of Levi. For the first casting of lots had fallen to them.
 

06-JOS/22.usfm

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 \v 1 At that time Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
 \v 2 He said to them, "You have done everything that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you. You have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
-\v 3 You have not deserted your brothers these many days, down to this present day. And you have fulfilled the duties required by the commandments of Yahweh your God.
+\v 3 You have not deserted your brothers these many days, down to this present day, and you have fulfilled the duties required by the commandments of Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 4 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, just as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land you own, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
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 \v 19 If the land that you possess is defiled, then you should pass over into the land where Yahweh's tabernacle stands and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves other than the altar of Yahweh our God.
 
-\v 20 Did not Achan son of Zerah, break faith in the matter of those things that had been reserved for God? And did not wrath fall on all the people of Israel? That man did not perish alone for his iniquity.'"
+\v 20 Did not Achan son of Zerah break faith in the matter of those things that had been reserved for God? Did not wrath fall on all the people of Israel? That man did not perish alone for his iniquity.'"
 
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06-JOS/23.usfm

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-\v 1 And after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies that surrounded them, Joshua was very old.
-\v 2 Joshua called for all Israel—for their elders, for their leaders, for their judges, and for their officers—and said to them, "I am very old.
+\v 1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies that around them, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
+\v 2 Joshua called for all Israel—for their elders, for their leaders, for their judges, and for their officers—and he said to them, "I am very old.
 \v 3 You have seen everything that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.
 
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-\v 14 And now I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not one word has failed to come true of all the good things that Yahweh your God promised about you. All these things have come about for you. Not one of them has failed.
+\v 14 Now I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not one word has failed to come true of all the good things that Yahweh your God promised about you. All these things have come about for you. Not one of them has failed.
 \v 15 But just as every word Yahweh your God promised you has been fulfilled, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things until he has destroyed you from this good land that Yahweh your God has given you.
 
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06-JOS/24.usfm

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 \v 2 Joshua said to all the people, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Your ancestors long ago lived beyond the Euphrates River—Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor—and they worshiped other gods.
 
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-\v 3 But I took your father from beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan, and I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.
-\v 4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
+\v 3 But I took your father from beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan and gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.
+\v 4 Then to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
 
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 \v 5 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians with plagues. After that, I brought you out.
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 \v 16 The people answered and said, "We would never forsake Yahweh to serve other gods,
 \v 17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our ancestors up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight, and who preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the nations through whom we passed.
-\v 18 And Yahweh drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in this land. So we also will worship Yahweh, for he is our God."
+\v 18 Then Yahweh drove out before us all the peoples, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship Yahweh, for he is our God."
 
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