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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-In these verses, the Levites continue to praise Yahweh in the presence of the people of Israel.
-
 # Because of all this
 
 because the people had disobeyed and Yahweh had punished them
 
 # On the sealed document are the names
 
-The reader should understand that the men wrote their names on the document before it was sealed.
-
+The reader should understand the men wrote their names on the document before it was sealed.
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