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 \v 12 So if you want to save yourself and your son Solomon from being killed, allow me to tell you what you should do.
 
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-\v 13 Go right away to King David. Say to him, 'Your Majesty, you solemnly promised me that my son Solomon would become the king after you die and that he would sit on your throne and rule. So why are people saying that Adonijah is now king?'
+\v 13 Go right away to King David. Say to him, 'Your Majesty, you solemnly promised to me, your servant, that my son Solomon would become the king after you die and that he would sit on your throne and rule. So why are people saying that Adonijah is now king?'
 \v 14 Then, Bathsheba, while you are still talking to the king, I will come in and tell him that what you are saying to him about Adonijah is true."
 
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 \v 15 So Bathsheba went to see the king in his bedroom. He was very old, and Abishag was taking care of him.
 \v 16 Bathsheba bowed very low in front of the king, and the king asked her, "What do you want?"
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-\v 17 She replied, "Your Majesty, you solemnly promised me, knowing that Yahweh our God was listening, that my son Solomon would become king after you die and that he would sit on your throne and rule.
+\v 17 She replied, "Your Majesty, you solemnly promised me, your servant, knowing that Yahweh our God was listening, that my son Solomon would become king after you die and that he would sit on your throne and rule.
 
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 \v 18 But now, Adonijah has made himself king, and you do not know anything about it.
-\v 19 He has sacrificed a lot of oxen and fattened cattle and sheep, and he has invited all of your other sons to the celebration. He has also invited Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of your army, but he did not invite your son Solomon.
+\v 19 He has sacrificed a lot of oxen and fattened cattle and sheep, and he has invited all of your other sons to the celebration. He has also invited Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of your army, but he did not invite your son Solomon your servant.
 
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 \v 20 Your Majesty, all the people of Israel are expecting you to tell them who is the one who will become king after you are no longer with us.
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 \v 25 I say that because today he has gone down to En Rogel and has sacrificed a lot of oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep. And he has invited all of your other sons, Joab the army commander, and Abiathar the priest. They are all eating and drinking with him and saying, 'We hope that King Adonijah will live a long time!'
 
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-\v 26 But he did not invite me or Zadok the priest or Benaiah or Solomon.
-\v 27 Did you say that they should do this without telling your other officials who you want to become king after you are no longer the king?"
+\v 26 But he did not invite me or Zadok the priest or Benaiah or your servant Solomon.
+\v 27 Did you say that they should do this without telling your servants who you want to become king after you are no longer the king?"
 
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 \v 36 Then the king sent a messenger to summon Shimei, and the king said to him, "Build a house for yourself here in Jerusalem. Remain there and do not leave the city to go anywhere.
 \v 37 Be sure that the day that you leave Jerusalem and go across the Kidron Brook, you will be executed, and it will be your own fault."
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-\v 38 Shimei replied, "Your Majesty, what you say is good. I will do what you have said." So Shimei remained in Jerusalem for several years.
+\v 38 Shimei replied, "Your Majesty, what you say is good. I, your servant, will do what you have said." So Shimei remained in Jerusalem for several years.
 
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-\v 39 But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran away. They went to stay with Maacah's son Achish, the king of the city of Gath. When someone told Shimei that they were in Gath,
-\v 40 he put a saddle on his donkey and got on the donkey and went to Gath. He found his slaves staying with King Achish and brought them back home.
+\v 39 But three years later, two of Shimei's servants ran away. They went to stay with Maacah's son Achish, the king of the city of Gath. When someone told Shimei that their servants were in Gath,
+\v 40 he put a saddle on his donkey and got on the donkey and went to Gath. He found his servants staying with King Achish and brought them back home.
 
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-\v 6 Solomon replied, "You always greatly and faithfully loved my father David, who served you well. You did that because he was faithful to you and acted righteously and honestly toward you. And you have shown how greatly and faithfully you loved him by giving me to him, his son, and now I am ruling as he did before he died.
+\v 6 Solomon replied, "You always greatly and faithfully loved my father, David your servant. You did that because he was faithful to you and acted righteously and honestly toward you. And you have shown how greatly and faithfully you loved him by giving me to him, his son, and now I am ruling as he did before he died.
 
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-\v 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have enabled me to be the king like my father was. But I am very young, like a little child. I do not know how to rule my people at all.
-\v 8 I live among the people whom you have chosen. They are a very large group of people. There are very, very many of them; no one can count them.
-\v 9 So please enable me to think clearly, in order that I may rule your people well. Enable me to know what is good and what is evil. If you do not do that, I will never be able to rule this great group of people who belong to you."
+\v 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have enabled me, your servant, to be the king like my father was. But I am very young, like a little child. I do not know how to rule my people at all.
+\v 8 I, your servant, have lived among the people whom you have chosen. They are a very large group of people. There are very, very many of them; no one can count them.
+\v 9 So please enable your servant to think clearly, in order that I may rule your people well. Enable me to know what is good and what is evil. If you do not do that, I will never be able to rule this great group of people who belong to you."
 
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 \v 18 On the third day after my baby was born, this woman also gave birth to a baby. Only the two of us were in the house. There was no one else there.
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 \v 19 But one night this woman's baby died because she accidentally rolled on top of her baby and smothered it.
-\v 20 So she got up at midnight and took my baby boy who was lying beside me while I was sleeping. She carried him to her bed and brought her dead baby and put it in my bed.
+\v 20 So she got up at midnight and took my baby boy who was lying beside me while I, your servant, was sleeping. She carried him to her bed and brought her dead baby and put it in my bed.
 
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 \v 21 When I awoke the next morning and was ready to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. But when I looked at it closely in the morning light, I saw that it was not my baby!"
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-\v 6 So I am requesting that you command your workers to cut cedar trees for me. My men will work with them, and I will pay your workers whatever you decide. But my men cannot do the work alone, because they do not know how to cut down trees like your workers from the city of Sidon do."
+\v 6 So I am requesting that you command your servants to cut cedar trees for me. My servants will work with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever you decide. But my servants cannot do the work alone, because they do not know how to cut down trees like your servants from the city of Sidon do."
 
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 \v 22 Then Solomon stood in front of the altar which was in front of the Israelite people who had gathered there. He spread out his arms toward heaven,
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-\pi "Yahweh, the God whom we Israelite people worship, there is no god like you up in heaven or down here on the earth. You solemnly promised that you would faithfully love us. And that is what you have done for us who earnestly do what you want us to do.
+\pi "Yahweh, the God whom we Israelite people worship, there is no god like you up in heaven or down here on the earth. You solemnly promised that you would faithfully love us. And that is what you have done for us who are your servants and who do what you commanded us to do.
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-\v 24 You have done the things that you promised my father David, who served you very well, that you would do. Truly, you promised to do these things for him, and today we see that by your power you have done them.
+\v 24 You have done the things that you promised my father David, your servant, who served you very well, that you would do. Truly, you promised to do these things for him, and today we see that by your power you have done them.
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-\v 25 So now, Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, I am requesting that you do the other things that you promised my father that you would do. You told him that there would always be some of his descendants who would be kings in Israel, if they would conduct their lives as he did.
-\v 26 So now, God of us Israelite people, cause what you promised to do for my father David, who served you well, to happen.
+\v 25 So now, Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, I am requesting that you do the other things that you promised your servant David, my father. You told him that there would always be some of his descendants who would be kings in Israel, if they should be careful to live their lives in ways that please Yahweh.
+\v 26 So now, God of us Israelite people, do what you have promised for your servant, David my father, who served you well.
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 \v 27 But God, will you really live on the earth among people? There is not enough space in heaven for you to have enough space to live there. So this temple that I have commanded my workers to build is certainly too small for you to live in.
-\v 28 But Yahweh, my God, please listen to me while I am praying to you this day.
+\v 28 But Yahweh, my God, please listen to me, your servant Solomon, while I am praying to you this day.
 
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-\v 29 I pray that you would protect this temple night and day. This is the place about which you have said, 'I will always be there.' I request that you listen to me whenever I turn my face toward this temple and pray.
-\v 30 I request that when I pray to you and your people pray to you while they turn their faces toward this place, that in your home in heaven you will hear us and forgive us for the sins that we have committed.
+\v 29 I pray that you would protect this temple night and day. This is the place about which you have said, 'I will always be there.' I request that you listen to me, your servant, whenever I turn my face toward this temple and pray.
+\v 30 I request that when I, your servant, prays to you, and your people pray to you and turn their faces toward this place, that in your home in heaven you will hear us and forgive us for the sins that we have committed.
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 \v 31 Suppose that people accuse someone of doing something wrong to another person, and they bring him to your altar outside this holy temple. And suppose that he says, 'I did not do that; may God punish me if I am not telling the truth.'
-\v 32 In that case, listen from heaven and decide who is telling the truth. Then punish the person who is guilty as he deserves to be punished, and declare that the other person is innocent.
+\v 32 In that case, listen from heaven and decide who is telling the truth. Then punish your servants who are guilty and deserve to be punished. Declare the innocent "not guilty" and give to him what he deserves because he is righteous. 
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 \v 35 Or suppose that you do not allow any rain to fall because your people have sinned against you. Suppose that they face in the direction of this place and admit that you have justly punished them. Suppose also that they stop acting sinfully and humbly pray to you.
-\v 36 In that case, listen to them in heaven and forgive your Israelite people for the sins that they have committed. Teach them the right way to conduct their lives, and then send rain on this land that you have given to your people to belong to them permanently.
+\v 36 In that case, listen to them from heaven and forgive your servants and forgive the sins of the people of Israel. Teach them the right way to conduct their lives. Send rain on this land that you have given to your people to belong to them as a permanent inheritance.
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 \v 51 Do not forget that the Israelites are your people. They are your special possession. You brought our ancestors out of Egypt where they were greatly suffering as though they were in a blazing furnace.
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-\v 52 I request that you always listen to your Israelite people and to their king, and heed their prayers whenever they call out to you to help them.
-\v 53 You chose them from all the other peoples in the world to belong to you, which is what you told Moses to tell them when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."
+\v 52 I request that your eyes are open to the prayer of your servant, and to the requests of your Israelite people, and listen to them whenever they pray and call out to you for help. 
+\v 53 You chose them from all the other peoples in the world to belong to you, which is what you told Moses your servant to tell them when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."
 
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 \v 9-10 Even though Yahweh, the God whom the Israelites worshiped, had appeared to Solomon two times, and had commanded him to not worship foreign gods, Solomon refused to obey Yahweh. So Yahweh was angry with Solomon.
 
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-\v 11 Yahweh said to him, "You have chosen to disobey the covenant that I made with you and to disobey what I commanded you. So I am certainly not going to allow you to rule all of your kingdom. I am going to allow one of your officials to rule.
+\v 11 Yahweh said to him, "You have chosen to disobey the covenant that I made with you and to disobey what I commanded you. So I am certainly not going to allow you to rule all of your kingdom. I am going to allow one of your servants to rule in your place.
 \v 12 But because of what I promised your father David, I will allow you to rule all your kingdom while you are still living. After you die, I will not allow your son to rule the whole kingdom.
 \v 13 But I will not stop him from ruling some of the kingdom. I will allow him to rule one tribe, because of what I promised to David, who served me well, and because I want David's descendants to rule in Jerusalem, where my temple is located."
 
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 \v 6 Then King Rehoboam consulted his older men who had advised his father Solomon while he was still living. He asked them, "What should I say to answer these men?"
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-\v 7 They replied, "If you want to serve these people well, speak kindly to them when you reply to them. If you do that, they will always serve you faithfully."
+\v 7 They replied, "If you want to be a servant today to these people and serve them, speak kindly to them when you reply to them. If you do that, they will always be your servants."
 
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-\v 9 Obadiah objected. He said, "Sir, I have not harmed you at all. So why are you sending me back to Ahab? He will kill me!
+\v 9 Obadiah objected. He said, "Sir, I have not harmed you at all. So why are you sending me, your servant, back to Ahab? He will kill me!
 \v 10 Yahweh your God knows that I am telling the truth when I solemnly declare that King Ahab has searched in every kingdom to find you. Each time that some king said to him, 'Elijah is not here,' Ahab demanded that the king of that country solemnly swear that the king was telling the truth.
 \v 11 Now you say to me, 'Go and tell your master that Elijah is here!'
 
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-\v 12 But as soon as I leave you, the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you away, and I will not know where he will take you. So when I tell Ahab that you are here and he comes to me and he does not find you here, he will kill me! But I do not deserve to die because I have revered Yahweh since I was a boy.
+\v 12 But as soon as I leave you, the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you away, and I will not know where he will take you. So when I tell Ahab that you are here and he comes to me and he does not find you here, he will kill me! But I, your servant, do not deserve to die because I have revered Yahweh since I was a boy.
 \v 13 My master, have you not heard about what I did when Jezebel wanted to kill all of Yahweh's prophets? I hid a hundred of them in two caves and took food and water to them.
 
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 \v 4 The king of Israel replied to them, "Tell this to King Ben Hadad, 'I agree to do what you requested. You can have me and everything that I own.'"
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 \v 5 The messengers told that to Ben Hadad, and he sent them back with another message: "I sent a message to you saying that you must give me all your silver and gold and your wives and your children.
-\v 6 But in addition to that, about this time tomorrow, I will send some of my officials to search your palace and the houses of your officials, and to bring to me everything that they see is valuable."
+\v 6 But in addition to that, about this time tomorrow, I will send some of my servants to search your palace and the houses of your servants, and to bring to me everything that they see is valuable."
 
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-\v 9 So Ahab said to Ben Hadad's messengers, "Tell the king that I agree to give him the things that he first requested, but I do not agree to allow his officials to take anything that they want from my palace and from the houses of my officials." So the messengers reported that to King Ben Hadad, and they returned with another message from Ben Hadad.
+\v 9 So Ahab said to Ben Hadad's messengers, "Tell the king that I agree to give him the things that he first requested your servant to do, but I do not agree to allow his servants to take anything that they want from my palace and from the houses of my servants." So the messengers reported that to King Ben Hadad, and they returned with another message from Ben Hadad.
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 \v 10 In that message he said, "We will destroy your city completely, with the result that there will not be enough ashes left for each of my soldiers to have one handful! I hope that the gods will strike me dead if we do not do that!"
 
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 \v 31 His officials went to him and said, "We have heard a report that the Israelites act mercifully. So allow us to go to the king of Israel, wearing course sacks around our waists and ropes on our heads to indicate that we will be his slaves. Perhaps if we do that, he will allow you to remain alive."
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-\v 32 The king permitted them to do that, so they wrapped coarse sacks around their waists and put ropes on their heads, and they went to the king of Israel and said to him, "Ben Hadad, who greatly respects you, says, 'Please do not kill me.'" Ahab replied, "Is he still alive? He is like a brother to me!"
+\v 32 The king permitted them to do that, so they wrapped coarse sacks around their waists and put ropes on their heads, and they went to the king of Israel and said to him, "Ben Hadad, your servant, says, 'Please do not kill me.'" Ahab replied, "Is he still alive? He is like a brother to me!"
 
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 \v 38 Then the prophet put a large bandage over his face so that no one would recognize him. Then he went and stood alongside the road, waiting for the king to come by.
 
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-\v 39 When the king passed by, the prophet cried out to him, saying "Your Majesty, after I was wounded while I was fighting in a battle, a soldier brought to me one of our enemies who he had captured, and said to me, 'Guard this man! If he escapes, you must pay me thirty-three kilograms of silver; if you do not pay that, you will be executed!'
-\v 40 But while I was busy doing other things, the man escaped!" The king of Israel said to him, "That is your problem! You yourself have said that you deserve to be punished."
+\v 39 When the king passed by, the prophet cried out to him, saying "Your Majesty, after I, your servant, was wounded while I was fighting in a battle, a soldier brought to me one of our enemies who he had captured, and said to me, 'Guard this man! If he escapes, you must pay me thirty-three kilograms of silver; if you do not pay that, you will be executed!'
+\v 40 But while I, your servant, was busy doing other things, the man escaped!" The king of Israel said to him, "That is your problem! You yourself have said that you deserve to be punished."
 
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 \v 15 When the association of prophets from Jericho saw what happened, they exclaimed, "Elisha now has the power that Elijah had!" They walked over to Elisha and bowed down in front of him.
-\v 16 One of them said, "Sir, if you permit us, fifty of our strongest men will go and search for your master on the other side of the river. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh has left him on some mountain or in some valley."
+\v 16 One of them said, "Sir, if you permit us, fifty of our strongest men among your servants will go and search for your master on the other side of the river. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh has left him on some mountain or in some valley."
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-\v 1 One day the widow of one of Yahweh's prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband, who worked with you, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh very much. But now someone to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. I cannot pay him back, so he is threatening to take away my two sons to be his slaves as payment!"
+\v 1 One day the widow of one of Yahweh's prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband, your servant, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh very much. But now someone to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. I cannot pay him back, so he is threatening to take away my two sons to be his slaves as payment!"
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 \v 2 Elisha replied, "What can I do to help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?"
-\p She replied, "We have only a container of olive oil. We have nothing else."
+\p She replied, "I, your servant, have only a container of olive oil. We have nothing else."
 
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 \v 15 Elisha told Gehazi, "Call her back again." So Gehazi went and called her. And when the woman returned, as she stood in the doorway,
-\v 16 Elisha said to her, "About this time next year you will be holding your infant son in your arms." But she protested, "Oh, Sir, you are a prophet who brings messages from God, so please do not deceive me by saying things like that!"
+\v 16 Elisha said to her, "About this time next year you will be holding your infant son in your arms." But she protested, "Oh, Sir, you are a prophet who brings messages from God, so please do not deceive me, who is your servant, by saying things like that!"
 
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-\v 15 Then Naaman and those who were with him went back to talk to Elisha. They stood in front of him, and Naaman said, "Now I know that there are no real gods anywhere else in the world, but there is the true God here in Israel! So now please accept these gifts that I have brought to you!"
+\v 15 Then Naaman and those who were with him went back to talk to Elisha. They stood in front of him, and Naaman said, "Now I know that there are no real gods anywhere else in the world, but there is the true God here in Israel! So now please accept these gifts that I, your servant, have brought to you!"
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 \v 16 But Elisha replied, "Just as certainly as Yahweh, the one whom I serve, lives, I will not accept any gifts." Naaman kept urging him to accept the gifts, but Elisha kept refusing.
 
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-\v 17 Then Naaman said, "Very well, but I have one request. This soil here in Israel is Yahweh's soil, so please allow me to take some soil from this place and put it in sacks on two mules. Then I will take it back home with me and make an altar on this soil. From now on, I will offer sacrifices to Yahweh on that altar. I will not offer sacrifices to any other god.
+\v 17 Then Naaman said, "Very well, but I, your servant, have one request. This soil here in Israel is Yahweh's soil, so please allow me to take some soil from this place and put it in sacks on two mules. Then I will take it back home with me and make an altar on this soil. From now on, I, your servant, will offer sacrifices to Yahweh on that altar. I will not offer sacrifices to any other god.
 \v 18 However, when my master, the king, goes into the temple of the god Rimmon to worship him, I ask that Yahweh will forgive me because I will have to bow down, too."
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 \v 19 Elisha replied, "Go home, and do not worry about that." So Naaman and his servants started to travel home.
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 \v 23 Naaman replied, "Certainly! You can have sixty-six kilograms of silver!" He urged Gehazi to take it. He also gave him two sets of clothing. He tied up the silver in two bags and gave them to two of his servants to carry back to Elisha.
 \v 24 But when they arrived at the hill where Elisha lived, Gehazi took the silver and the clothes from Naaman's servants and sent the servants back to Naaman. Then he took those things into his house and hid them.
-\v 25 When he went to Elisha, Elisha asked him, "Where did you go, Gehazi?" Gehazi replied, "I did not go anywhere."
+\v 25 When he went to Elisha, Elisha asked him, "Where did you go, Gehazi?" Gehazi replied, "I, who am your servant, did not go anywhere."
 
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 \v 1 One day the association of prophets said to Elisha, "Look, this place where we meet together with you is very small.
 \v 2 Allow us to go to the Jordan River and cut down some trees to make logs to build a new meeting place." So Elisha said, "Very well, go."
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-\v 3 One of them said to Elisha, "Please come with us." So Elisha replied, "Very well, I will go with you."
+\v 3 One of them said to Elisha, "Please go with your servants." So Elisha replied, "Very well, I will go with you."
 
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-\v 13 Hazael replied, "I am as powerless as a dog. How could I do such terrible things?"
+\v 13 Hazael replied, "Who am I, your servant, that I should do this great thing? I am as powerless as a dog."
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 \v 14 Then Hazael left and returned to his master the king, who asked him, "What did Elisha say?"
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 \v 4 But when they got those letters and read them, they became very afraid. They said, "King Joram and King Ahaziah could not resist him; how can we resist him?
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-\v 5 So the officer who was in charge of the palace and the mayor of the city sent a message to Jehu saying, "We want to serve you, and we are ready to do whatever you tell us to do. We will not appoint anyone to become our king. You do whatever you think is the best."
+\v 5 So the officer who was in charge of the palace and the mayor of the city sent a message to Jehu saying, "We are your servants. We are ready to do whatever you tell us to do. We will not appoint anyone to become our king. You do whatever you think is the best."
 
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-\v 7 King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria, to tell this message to him: "I promise that I will completely do what you tell me to do, as though I were your son. Please come and rescue us from the armies of Aram and Israel who are attacking my country."
+\v 7 King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria, to tell this message to him: "I am your servant, and I am as close to you as your son. Please come and rescue us from the armies of Aram and Israel who are attacking my country."
 \v 8 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was in the palace and in the temple and sent it to Assyria to be a present for the king of Assyria.
 \v 9 So Tiglath-Pileser did what Ahaz requested. His army marched to Damascus and captured it, and they took the people of Damascus as prisoners to live in the capital city of Assyria.
 
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-\v 26 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the official from Assyria, "Sir, please speak to us in your Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in our Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it and be frightened."
+\v 26 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the official from Assyria, "Sir, please speak to us, your servants, in your Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in our Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it and be frightened."
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 \v 27 But the official replied, "Do you think that my master sent me to say these things only to you and not to the people who are standing on the wall? If you reject this message, the people in this city will soon need to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, just like you will, because there will be nothing more for you to eat or drink."
 
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 \v 8 After Shaphan the king's secretary said that to Hilkiah, Hilkiah said to Shaphan, "I have found in the temple a scroll on which is written the laws that God gave to Moses!" Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan, and he started to read it.
-\v 9 Then Shaphan took the scroll to the king and said to him, "Your temple guards have taken the money that was in the temple, and they have given it to the men who will supervise the work of repairing the temple."
+\v 9 Then Shaphan took the scroll to the king and said to him, "Your temple guards, who were your servants, have taken the money that was in the temple, and they have given it to the men who will supervise the work of repairing the temple."
 \v 10 Then Shaphan said to the king, "I have brought to you a scroll that Hilkiah gave to me." And Shaphan started to read it to the king.
 
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@@ -1807,12 +1807,12 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
 \v 16 Then David went into the sacred tent and sat in the presence of Yahweh, and prayed this:
 \pi "Yahweh my God, I am certainly not worthy for you to have done of all these things for me, and my family is not worthy, either.
 \pi
-\v 17 And O God, now, in addition to everything else, you have spoken about what will happen to my descendants in the future for many generations. Yahweh my God, you have acted toward me as though I was the most important man on the earth!
+\v 17 And O God, now, in addition to everything else, you have spoken about what will happen to my descendants, who are your servants, in the future and many generations. Yahweh my God, you have shown me the future and my royal line of descendants!
 \pi
-\v 18 What more can I, David, say to you for honoring me? Yahweh, you know what kind of person I am.
+\v 18 What more can I, David, say to you for honoring me? Yahweh, you gave this great honor to me your servant.
 
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-\v 19 You have done all this, Yahweh, and because it is what you wanted to do. You have done these great things for me and you have revealed to me these things that you have promised to do for me, because you love me.
+\v 19 You have done all this, Yahweh, and because it is what you wanted to do. You have done these great things for me, David your servant, and you have revealed to me these things that you have promised to do for me, because you love me.
 \pi
 \v 20 Yahweh, you are great. There is no one like you. Only you are God, which is what we have always heard.
 \v 21 And there is no nation in the world like Israel. Israel is the only nation on the earth whose people you went out to rescue. You performed great and awesome miracles, rescuing our ancestors from being slaves in Egypt, expelling the people of other peoples who were in Canaan.
@@ -1820,14 +1820,14 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
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 \v 22 You have caused us your Israelite people to belong to you forever, and you, Yahweh, have become our God!
 \pi
-\v 23 And now Yahweh, I pray that you will cause the things that you have promised about me and my descendants to be fulfilled forever, and do the things that you have said that you would do.
-\v 24 When that happens, you will be famous forever. And people will exclaim, 'Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is the God who rules Israel!' And you will cause that forever there will be descendants of mine who will rule.
+\v 23 And now Yahweh, I pray that you will cause the things that you have promised about me, your servant, and my descendants to be fulfilled forever, and that your will do the things that you have said that you would do.
+\v 24 When that happens, you will be famous forever. And people will exclaim, 'Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is the God who rules Israel!' And you will cause that forever there will be a royal line of descendants from me, David your servant. 
 
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-\v 25 You, my God, have revealed to me that you will cause some of my descendants to become kings. So I am brave enough to pray like this to you.
-\v 26 Yahweh, you are God! You have promised to do these good things for me.
-\v 27 And now you, Yahweh, have promised to bless my descendants, in order that they will continue to rule forever. That will happen because you, Yahweh, are the one who has blessed them, and you will keep blessing them forever."
+\v 25 You, my God, have revealed to me, David your servant, that you will cause some of my descendants to become kings. So I am brave enough to pray like this to you.
+\v 26 Yahweh, you are God! You have promised to do these good things for me, David your servant.
+\v 27 And now you, Yahweh, have promised to bless the descendants from me, David your servant, in order that they will continue to rule forever. That will happen because you, Yahweh, are the one who has blessed them, and you will keep blessing them forever."
 
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@@ -1960,7 +1960,7 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
 \v 6 However, Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.
 \p
 \v 7 David's command to count the people caused God to become angry, so he told David that he had decided to punish the people of Israel.
-\v 8 Then David prayed to God. He said to him, "What I did was very foolish. I have sinned greatly by what I have done. So now I plead with you, please forgive me."
+\v 8 Then David prayed to God. He said to him, "What I did was very foolish. I have sinned greatly by what I have done. So now I plead with you, please forgive me, for I am your servant."
 
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-\v 8 I know that your workers are skilled in cutting timber, so also please send me cedar logs, pine logs, and algum from the Lebanon mountains. My workers will work with your workers.
+\v 8 I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber, so also please send me cedar logs, pine logs, and algum from the Lebanon mountains. My servants will work with your servants.
 \v 9 In that way, they will provide me with plenty of lumber. We will need plenty, because I want the temple that we will build to be large and beautiful.
-\v 10 I will pay to your workers, the men who cut the logs, 4,400 cubic meters of ground wheat, 4,400 cubic meters of barley, and 440 cubic meters of wine, and 440 cubic meters of olive oil."
+\v 10 I will pay to your servants, the men who cut the logs, 4,400 cubic meters of ground wheat, 4,400 cubic meters of barley, and 440 cubic meters of wine, and 440 cubic meters of olive oil."
 
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@@ -262,28 +262,28 @@
 
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 \v 14 Then he prayed,
-\p "Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelite people belong, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth. You solemnly promised in your covenant that you would faithfully love us, and that is what you have done for us who earnestly do what you want us to do.
+\p "Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelite people belong, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth. You solemnly promised in your covenant that you would faithfully love us, and that is what you have done for us, your servants, who earnestly do what you want us to do.
 \pi
-\v 15 You have done the things that you promised my father David, who served you very well, that you would do. Truly, you promised to do those things for him, and today we see that by your power you have caused it all to happen.
+\v 15 You have done the things that you promised to your servant David, my father, who served you very well, that you would do. Truly, you promised to do those things for him, and today we see that by your power you have caused it all to happen.
 
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 \v 16 So now, Yahweh, the God we Israelites worship Israel, as you promised your servant David, my father, please make sure that he will always have a descendant who will be king of Israel. For you promise you would do this if his descendants were faithful to you.
-\v 17 So now, God of us Israelite people, cause what you promised David, who served you well, to become true.
+\v 17 So now, God of us Israelite people, cause what you promised your servant David, to become true.
 
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 \v 18 But, my God, will you really live on earth among us? This temple I have built cannot contain you; not even the universe and heaven itself can contain you.
-\v 19 But Yahweh, my God, please listen to my prayer, while I am pleading with this day and do what I am requesting.
+\v 19 But Yahweh, my God, please listen to the prayer of your servant; please listen to the cry and the prayers that I, your servant, bring before you. 
 \v 20 Always protect this temple, this place where you said you would be present, in order that you might always hear me when I pray, for I am your servant.
 
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-\v 21 Listen to me when I pray, and listen to your Israelite people when they pray, whether we are here, or even if we just face in this direction. Listen from heaven, where you live; and when you hear us pray, forgive us.
+\v 21 Listen to me, your servant, when I pray, and also listen to your Israelite people when they pray, whether we are here, or even if we just face in this direction. Listen from heaven, where you live; and when you hear us pray, forgive us.
 
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 \v 22 If people accuse someone of doing something wrong to another person, and if they bring him in front of your altar outside this holy temple, and if he says, 'I did not do that; may God punish me if I am not telling the truth,'
-\v 23 then please listen from heaven and decide who is telling the truth. Then punish the person who is guilty as he deserves to be punished, and do good to the other person as a reward for his innocence.
+\v 23 then please listen from heaven and decide who is telling the truth. Then judge your servants. Those who are guilty deserve to be punished. Then you will declare the innocent person to be not guilty because he did what was right. 
 
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@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
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 \v 26 When you do not allow any rain to fall because the people have sinned against you—then, if they stop acting sinfully and humbly pray to you, you who are present in this place,
-\v 27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sins of your people. Teach them the right way to conduct their lives. Then send rain on the land that you gave to your people forever.
+\v 27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants and your people Israel. Teach them the right way to conduct their lives. Then send rain on the land that you gave to your people forever.
 
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@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
 \p
 \v 6 Then King Rehoboam consulted his older men who had advised his father Solomon while he was still alive. He asked them, "What shall I say to answer these men?"
 \p
-\v 7 They replied, "If you will be kind to these people and do things that will please them, and if you say kind things to them when you answer them, they will always serve you."
+\v 7 They replied, "If you will be kind to these people and do things that will please them, and if you say kind things to them, then they will always be your servants."
 
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@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
 \v 14 While they were giving to the supervisors the money that had been taken to the temple, Hilkiah the high priest found a scroll on which was written the laws that Yahweh had given to Moses to give to the people.
 \v 15 So Hilkiah said to Shaphan, "I have found in the temple a scroll on which is written the laws that God gave to Moses!" Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
 \p
-\v 16 Shaphan took the scroll to the king and said to him, "Your officials are doing everything that you told them to do.
+\v 16 Shaphan took the scroll to the king and said to him, "Your servants are doing everything that you told them to do.
 
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@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ province west of the Euphrates River.
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 \p
 \v 11 This is what they wrote in the letter:
-"This letter is for King Artaxerxes, and comes from the officials serving you who live in the province west of the Euphrates River.
+"This letter is for King Artaxerxes, and comes from your servants who are living in the province west of the Euphrates River.
 \v 12 "Your Majesty, we want you to know that the Jews who came here from your territories are rebuilding the city of Jerusalem. These people are wicked and want to rebel against you. They are now repairing the foundations of the walls and building the walls of the city.
 
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 "Yahweh, you are the God who is in heaven. You are the great and awesome God, and you keep your sacred bond and promise with everyone who loves you and who obeys your rules and commands.
 
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-\v 6 Now please look at me and listen to what I am praying. I pray during the day and at night for your Israelite people. I confess that we have sinned. Even I and my family have sinned against you.
+\v 6 Now please look at me and listen to what I am praying. I, your servant, pray during the day and at night for your Israelite people. I confess that we have sinned. Even I and my family have sinned against you.
 \v 7 We have acted very wickedly. Many years ago your servant Moses gave us your laws and all the decrees you commanded us to do, but we did not keep them.
 
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 \p
 \v 4 The king replied, "What do you want me to do for you?"
 \p And before I answered him, I prayed to God in heaven.
-\v 5 Then I replied, "If you are willing to do it, and if I have pleased you, then you could send me to Jerusalem, where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild the city."
+\v 5 Then I replied, "If you are willing to do it, and if I, your servant, have pleased you, then you could send me to Jerusalem, where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild the city."
 \p
 \v 6 The king (with queen sitting beside him) asked me, "If I allow you to go, how long will you be gone? And when will you return?" He gave me permisson to go as soon as I gave him the dates of my going there and coming back again.
 

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@@ -1058,7 +1058,8 @@
 
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 \q1
-\v 11 Furthermore, by reading them I learn what things are good to do and what things are evil,
+\v 11 Furthermore, by reading them I, your servant, 
+\q1 learn what things are good to do and what things are evil,
 \q1 and they promise a great reward
 \q2 to us who obey them.
 \q1
@@ -1067,7 +1068,7 @@
 
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 \q1
-\v 13 Keep me from doing things that I know are wrong;
+\v 13 Keep me, your servant, from doing things that I know are wrong;
 \q2 do not let me keep doing the evil things I want to do.
 \q1 If you do that, I will no longer be guilty for committing such sins,
 \q2 and I will not commit the great sin of rebelling terribly against you.
@@ -1837,7 +1838,7 @@
 \q2 save me from my enemies,
 \q2 from those who pursue me.
 \q1
-\v 16 Act kindly toward me
+\v 16 Act kindly toward me, your servant,
 \q2 and rescue me, because you always faithfully love me.
 
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@@ -3972,9 +3973,9 @@
 \q2 and I will distribute among my people the land in Succoth Valley.
 \q1
 \v 7 The region of Gilead is mine;
-\q1 the people of the tribe of Manasseh are mine;
+\q1 the tribe of Manasseh are mine;
 \q1 the tribe of Ephraim is like my helmet;
-\q1 and the tribe of Judah is like the scepter with which I rule.
+\q1 and the tribe of Judah is like my scepter with which I rule.
 
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@@ -4628,7 +4629,7 @@
 \q2 You have not punished me for what I deserve.
 \q1 I know you will listen to me!
 \q1
-\v 17 Do not hide yourself from me;
+\v 17 Do not hide yourself from me, your servant;
 \q1 answer me quickly
 \q2 because I am in great trouble.
 
@@ -5646,9 +5647,9 @@
 \q2 They have desecrated your temple,
 \q1 and they have destroyed all the buildings in Jerusalem.
 \q1
-\v 2 Instead of burying the corpses of your people whom they killed,
+\v 2 Instead of burying the corpses of your servants whom they killed,
 \q2 they allowed the vultures to eat the flesh of those corpses,
-\q2 and they also allowed wild animals to eat the corpses of your people.
+\q2 and they also allowed wild animals to eat the corpses of those who had faith in you.
 \q1
 \v 3 When they killed your people,
 \q1 your people's blood flowed like water through the streets of Jerusalem,
@@ -5687,7 +5688,8 @@
 \q1
 \v 10 It is not right that the other peoples say about us,
 \q2 "If their God is very powerful, why does he not help them?"
-\q1 Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood
+\q1 Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations 
+\q1 in return for their shedding the blood of your servants
 \q1 and killing many of us, your people.
 \q1
 \v 11 Listen to your people groaning while they are in prison,
@@ -6089,14 +6091,14 @@
 \q2 because I am weak and needy.
 \q1
 \v 2 Prevent me from dying now because I am loyal to you;
-\q2 save me because I serve you and I trust in you, my God.
+\q2 save me, your servant, because I trust in you, my God.
 
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 \q1
 \v 3 Lord, act kindly toward me
 \q2 because I cry out to you all during each day.
 \q1
-\v 4 Lord, cause me to be glad
+\v 4 Lord, cause me, your servant, to be glad
 \q2 because I pray to you.
 
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@@ -6148,8 +6150,9 @@
 \q2 and always do for us what you have promised to do.
 \q1
 \v 16 Look down toward me and act mercifully to me;
-\q2 cause me to be strong and save me,
-\q2 the one who serves you faithfully as my mother did.
+\q2 cause me, your servant, to be strong;  
+\q1 and save me for I am the one who is the son 
+\q1 of the woman who is your servant.
 \q1
 \v 17 Yahweh, do something to show me that you are being good to me
 \q2 so that those who hate me will see that you have encouraged me and helped me;
@@ -6468,7 +6471,7 @@
 \q1 why are you not doing that?
 \q1 You solemnly promised this to David!
 \q1
-\v 50 Yahweh, do not forget that people insult us!
+\v 50 Yahweh, do not forget that people insult your servants!
 \q2 Heathen people curse me!
 \q1
 \v 51 Yahweh, your enemies insult your chosen king!
@@ -6537,7 +6540,7 @@
 \q2 in order that we may use our time wisely.
 \q1
 \v 13 Yahweh, how long will you be angry with us?
-\q1 Pity us who serve you.
+\q1 Have pity on your servants.
 
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@@ -6546,7 +6549,7 @@
 \q1
 \v 15 Cause us to be now as happy for as many years as you afflicted us and we experienced troubles.
 \q1
-\v 16 Enable us to see the great things that you do,
+\v 16 Enable your servants see the great things that you do,
 \q2 and enable our descendants to see your glorious power also.
 
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@@ -7188,7 +7191,7 @@
 \q1 this is the time for you to be kind to them.
 \q1
 \v 14 Even though the city has been destroyed,
-\q2 we who serve you still love the stones that were formerly in the city walls;
+\q2 we, your servants, still love the stones that were formerly in the city walls;
 \q1 because now there is rubble everywhere,
 \q2 we, your people, are very sad when we see it.
 \q1
@@ -7247,7 +7250,7 @@
 
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-\v 28 Someday our children will live safely in Jerusalem,
+\v 28 Someday the children of your servants will live safely in Jerusalem,
 \q1 and their descendants will be protected as they live in your presence."
 
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@@ -7367,9 +7370,9 @@
 \v 6 Later, you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket;
 \q2 and the water covered the mountains.
 \q1
-\v 7 But when you rebuked the water, the oceans receded;
-\q2 your voice spoke like thunder,
-\q1 and then the waters rushed away.
+\v 7 But when you rebuked the waters they were driven away;
+\q2 the sound of your voice was like thunder,
+\q1 and the thunder made the waters rush away.
 
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@@ -8061,8 +8064,9 @@
 \q2 and I will distribute among my people the land in the Valley of Succoth.
 \q1
 \v 8 The region of Gilead is mine;
-\q2 the people of the tribe of Manasseh are mine;
-\q1 and the tribe of Judah is like my scepter.
+\q1 the tribe of Manasseh is mine;
+\q1 the tribe of Ephraim is like my helmet;
+\q1 and the tribe of Judah is like my scepter with which I rule.
 
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@@ -8204,7 +8208,7 @@
 \q1
 \v 28 They may curse me, but I ask that you bless me.
 \q2 Cause those who persecute me to be defeated and disgraced,
-\q1 but cause me to be glad!
+\q1 but cause your servants to be glad!
 \q1
 \v 29 Cause those who accuse me to be completely disgraced;
 \q2 cause other people to see that they are disgraced as easily as they see the clothes that they wear!
@@ -8567,9 +8571,9 @@
 
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-\v 16 I am one of those who serves Yahweh;
-\q2 I serve him like my mother did.
-\q2 He has ended my troubles.
+\v 16 Yahweh, I am your servant; 
+\q2 I your servant, and my mother was your servant women.
+\q2 You have set me free. 
 \q1
 \v 17 So I will offer to him a sacrifice to thank him,
 \q1 and I will pray to him.
@@ -8781,8 +8785,8 @@
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 \qa GIMEL
 \q1
-\v 17 Do good things for me, the one who serves you,
-\q2 so that I may continue to live and obey your words during all my life.
+\v 17 Do good things for your servant
+\q2 so that I may continue to live and obey your words.
 \q1
 \v 18 Help me to understand with my mind,
 \q2 to know the wonderful things that are written in your laws.
@@ -8805,7 +8809,7 @@
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 \q1
 \v 23 Rulers gather together and plan ways to harm me,
-\q2 but I will meditate on what you have commanded.
+\q2 but I, your servant, will meditate on what you have commanded.
 \q1
 \v 24 I am delighted with your requirements;
 \q2 it is as though they were my advisors.
@@ -8865,8 +8869,8 @@
 \v 37 Do not allow me to look at things that are worthless;
 \q2 make me able to live as you want me to live.
 \q1
-\v 38 Because I am one who serves you, do what you promised to do for me,
-\q2 which is what you also promise to do for all those who honor you.
+\v 38 Do what you promised to do for me, your servant;
+\q2 the promise you made for all those who honor you.
 
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@@ -8914,7 +8918,7 @@
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 \qa ZAYIN
 \q1
-\v 49 Do not forget what you said you would do for me, the one who serves you,
+\v 49 Do not forget what you said you would do for me, your servant,
 \q2 because what you have said has caused me to confidently expect good things from you.
 \q1
 \v 50 When I have been suffering, you comforted me;
@@ -8981,8 +8985,8 @@
 \qa YOD
 \q1
 \qa TETH
-\v 65 Yahweh, you have done good things for me
-\q2 as you promised that you would do.
+\v 65 Yahweh, you have done good things for me, your servant;
+\q2 you did good to me by the promise of your word.
 \q1
 \v 66 Teach me to think carefully before I decide what to do,
 \q2 and teach me other things that I need to know
@@ -9027,7 +9031,7 @@
 \q2 and that you have made me suffer because you love me without end.
 \q1
 \v 76 Comfort me by showing that you faithfully love me
-\q2 as you said to me that you would do.
+\q2 as you said to me, your servant, that you would do.
 
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@@ -9059,7 +9063,7 @@
 \v 83 I have become as useless as a wineskin that is shriveled from hanging a long time in the smoke inside a house,
 \q2 but I have not forgotten your statutes.
 \q1
-\v 84 How long must I wait?
+\v 84 How long must I, your servant, wait?
 \q2 When will you punish those who persecute me?
 
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-\v 91 To this day, all things on the earth remain because you decided that they should remain;
-\q2 everything on the earth serves you.
+\v 91 To this day, all things continue to remain as they should be, 
+\q1 just as you said in your righteous decrees that they would continue as they should, 
+\q2 and all created things are your servants. 
 \q1
 \v 92 If I had not been delighted in obeying your laws,
 \q2 I would have died because of what I was suffering.
@@ -9221,7 +9226,7 @@
 \v 121 But I have done what is right and fair;
 \q2 so do not allow people to oppress me.
 \q1
-\v 122 Be responsible for doing good things for me,
+\v 122 Be responsible for doing good things for me, your servant,
 \q2 and do not allow proud people to oppress me.
 
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@@ -9229,13 +9234,13 @@
 \v 123 My eyes are tired from waiting a long time for you to rescue me,
 \q2 for you to save me as you promised that you would.
 \q1
-\v 124 Do something for me to show that you faithfully love me,
+\v 124 Show your servant how you faithfully love me,
 \q2 and teach me your statutes.
 
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-\v 125 I am one who serves you;
-\q1 enable me to understand what you want me to know
+\v 125 I am your servant;
+\q1 help me to understand what you want me to know
 \q2 so that I may learn your requirements.
 \q1
 \v 126 Yahweh, now is the time for you to punish people
@@ -9277,7 +9282,7 @@
 
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-\v 135 Act kindly toward me
+\v 135 Act kindly toward me, your servant,
 \q2 and teach me your statutes.
 \q1
 \v 136 I cry very much
@@ -9298,7 +9303,7 @@
 \q2 because my enemies disregard your words.
 \q1
 \v 140 I have found that your promises are dependable,
-\q2 and I love them.
+\q2 and I, your servant, love them.
 
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@@ -9447,7 +9452,7 @@
 \q2 so that your regulations will continue to help me.
 \q1
 \v 176 I have sinned and turned away from you like a sheep that has left its flock;
-\q2 search for me because I have not forgotten your commands.
+\q2 search for me, your servant, because I have not forgotten your commands.
 
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@@ -9717,16 +9722,17 @@
 
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-\v 3 Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes;
-\q2 she will give birth to many children.
-\q1 Your children who sit around your table;
-\q1 you will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it.
+\v 3 Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes;  
+\q2 she will give birth to many children.  
+\q1 Your children who sit around your table 
+\q2 will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it.  
 \q1
 \v 4 Like that, Yahweh will bless every man who has an awesome respect for him.
 \q1
 \v 5 I wish that God in his temple on Mount Zion may help you greatly,
 \q1 and that you will see the people of Jerusalem prospering every day that you live!
 \q2
+\q1
 \v 6 I wish that you may live many years
 \q2 and that you may have grandchildren and be able to see them.
 \q1 I wish that things may go well for people in Israel!
@@ -9859,7 +9865,7 @@
 \v 9 I want that the righteous behavior of your priests will always be evident,
 \q1 and that your people will always shout joyfully.
 \q1
-\v 10 You chose David to serve you as king of Israel;
+\v 10 You chose your servant David as king of Israel;
 \q2 do not reject him!
 
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@@ -10466,7 +10472,7 @@
 \q2 listen to what I am pleading for you to do for me.
 \q1
 \v 2 I am one who worships you;
-\q1 do not judge me
+\q1 do not judge me, your servant,
 \q2 because you do not consider anyone to be completely innocent.
 
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@@ -10514,7 +10520,7 @@
 \v 11 Yahweh, restore me when I am close to dying as you promised to do
 \q2 because you are righteous!
 \q1
-\v 12 I am one who serves you;
+\v 12 I am your servant;
 \q1 so because you faithfully love me as you promised to do,
 \q2 kill my enemies
 \q2 and get rid of all those who oppress me.
@@ -10567,10 +10573,10 @@
 \v 9 God, I will sing a new song to you,
 \q2 and I will play my ten-stringed harp while I sing to you.
 \q1
-\v 10 You enable kings to defeat their enemies;
-\q2 you rescue those who serve you as I did.
+\v 10 You rescued kings,
+\q2 you delivered me, David your servant, from those who tried to kill me. 
 \q1
-\v 11 So I ask you to save me from being killed by the swords that those evil people carry.
+\v 11 So I ask you to rescue me now from being killed by the swords that those evil people carry.
 \q1 Rescue me from the power of those men from foreign countries
 \q2 who always tell lies.
 \q1 Even when they swear to tell the truth,

20-PRO.usfm

@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@
 \q2 We will make them like those who fall into the place where there is no hope of escape.
 \q1
 \v 13 We will find many valuable and expensive items,
-\q2 and we will fill our houses with what we stole from them!
+\q2 and we will fill our houses with what we steal from them!
 \q1
 \v 14 So, come, be part of our team!
-\q2 We will split into equal shares, and give to each member of our team, from all the things we stole."
+\q2 Let us all share equally the things we steal."
 
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 \q1
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 \q2 They set a trap and the trap catches them.
 \q1
 \v 19 These are the ways of all who gain their riches through theft and deceit;
-\q2 the things they stole destroy the lives of the thieves who cling to them.
+\q2 the things they steal destroy the lives of the thieves who cling to them.
 
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 \q1
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@
 
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 \q1
-\v 16 Wisdom will keep you safe from the adulterous woman,
-\q2 and you will not pay attention when a strange woman invites you to be with her.
+\v 16 Wisdom will keep you safe from the adulterous woman,  
+\q2 and will keep you away from an immoral woman who invites you to be with her.
 \q1
 \v 17 Those women left the husbands they married when they were young,
 \q2 they forgot the promise they made to God to love only the one they married.
@@ -720,8 +720,10 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
 \v 4 Think of wisdom as if it were a woman, one of your own sisters, whom you love;
 \q2 think of understanding as if it were a person, one of your own family, to whom you are loyal.
 \q1
-\v 5 If you do this, you will be able to stay away from women whom you must not be with,
-\q2 random women who say nice things to you so that you will sin with them.
+\v 5 If you pay attention to that wisdom
+\q1 it will help you stay away from the immoral woman,
+\q2 the woman who speaks to you with seductive words, 
+\q2 so that you might come to her, to be with her. 
 
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 \q1
@@ -1909,8 +1911,8 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
 
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 \q1
-\v 33 The stones making up the "lot" are thrown into a person's lap,
-\q2 but Yahweh decides on which side of the stones they will stop rolling.
+\v 33 People throw stones (they call them "lots") into the lap to make a decision,   
+\q2 but Yahweh decides where each of the stones will stop rolling. 
 
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 \c 17
@@ -2496,8 +2498,8 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
 \q1
 \v 30 Can there be any wisdom, any understanding, or any advice, that is wiser than Yahweh?
 \q1
-\v 31 The groomsman prepares the horse for the day of battle,
-\q2 but the outcome of the battle, the winner or the loser, is determined by Yahweh.
+\v 31 The soldier prepares his horse for the day of battle, 
+\q2 but it is Yahweh who determines the winner of the battle.
 
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 \c 22
@@ -2707,9 +2709,11 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
 \v 22 Pay attention to your father who brought you into the world,
 \q2 and do not hate your mother when she is old.
 \q1
-\v 23 When you study wisdom, think of it as buying truth, but never selling it;
-\q2 and the same for wisdom, and with discipline, and also with understanding;
-\q2 let it be as though you were buying them so you can keep them for the rest of your life.
+\v 23 When you study wisdom and discipline and understanding, 
+\q2 think of it as buying truth but never selling it. 
+\q2 Let it be as though you were buying them 
+\q2 so you can keep them for the rest of your life.
+
 
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 \q1
@@ -2986,10 +2990,10 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
 
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 \q1
-\v 21 If your enemies are hungry, give them something to eat;
-\q2 if they are thirsty, give them something to drink;
+\v 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat;
+\q2 if he is thirsty, give him something to drink;
 \q1
-\v 22 that will be the equal to pouring coals of fire on his head, without doing him any harm,
+\v 22 that will cause his conscience to burn
 \q2 and Yahweh will reward you for doing that.
 
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23-ISA.usfm

@@ -3454,7 +3454,7 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
 
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-\v 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the official from Assyria, "Please speak to us in your Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in our Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it and become frightened."
+\v 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the official from Assyria, "Please speak to your servants in your Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in our Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it and become frightened."
 \p
 \v 12 But the official replied, "Do you think that my master sent me to say these things only to you, and not to the people standing on the wall? If you reject this message, the people in this city will soon need to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, just as you will, because you will have nothing else to eat. "
 
@@ -3539,7 +3539,7 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
 
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 \q1
-\v 24 The messengers whom you sent made fun of me.
+\v 24 Your servants whom you sent made fun of me.
 \q1 You said, "With my many chariots I have gone to the highest mountains,
 \q2 to the highest mountains in Lebanon.
 \q1 We have cut down its tallest cedar trees
@@ -6575,7 +6575,7 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
 \v 17 Yahweh, why did you cause us to wander away from your road?
 \q2 Why did you cause us to be stubborn in our inner beings,
 \q2 with the result that we no longer honor you?
-\q1 Help us like you did previously,
+\q1 Help us, your servants, like you did previously,
 \q2 because we are the people who serve you and belong to you.
 
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24-JER.usfm

@@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
 \c 22
 \p
 \v 1 This is another message that Yahweh gave to me: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:
-\v 2 'You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler, like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen
+\v 2 'You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler, like King David was. You and your servants and your people must listen
 \v 3 to what Yahweh says: "Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil deeds. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here in Jerusalem.
 
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@@ -3414,7 +3414,7 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
 
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 \v 30 Now this is what I, Yahweh, say about you, Jehoiakim: None of your descendants will rule this kingdom. Your corpse will be thrown out on the ground and not buried; it will be under the hot sun during the days and struck by frost during the nights.
-\v 31 I will punish you and your family and your officials for their sins. And I will cause the people of Jerusalem and the people of the other towns in Judah to experience all the disasters that I promised, because you all would not pay attention to what I said!"'"
+\v 31 I will punish you and your family and your servants for their sins. And I will cause the people of Jerusalem and the people of the other towns in Judah to experience all the disasters that I promised, because you all would not pay attention to what I said!"'"
 
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 \p
@@ -3463,7 +3463,7 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
 
 \s5
 \p
-\v 18 Then Jeremiah asked the king, "What crime have I committed against you or against your officials or against the Israelite people, with the result that you have commanded that I be put in a prison?
+\v 18 Then Jeremiah asked the king, "What crime have I committed against you or against your servants or against the Israelite people, with the result that you have commanded that I be put in a prison?
 \v 19 Your prophets predicted that the army of the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land. Why were their messages not fulfilled?
 \v 20 Your majesty, I plead with you to listen to me. Do not send me back to the dungeon in the house of Jonathan your secretary, because if you do that, I will die there."
 

27-DAN.usfm

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 \p
 \v 11 The chief official assigned a servant to give Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah their food and drink. Daniel spoke to him.
 \v 12 He said, "Please test your servants! For ten days give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
-\v 13 After ten days, see whether we look healthy or not. Also see how those who eat the king's food look. Then you do to us whatever you think is best."
+\v 13 After ten days, see whether we look healthy or not. Also see how those who eat the king's food look. Then you do to us, your servants, whatever you think is best."
 
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 \v 14 The servant agreed to this test. He gave them the food Daniel requested for ten days.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 \s5
 \v 3 The king said, "I had a dream last night that worries me and I want to know what the dream means."
 \p
-\v 4 The men who studied the stars replied to the king, (what follows is written in the Aramaic language). They said, "King Nebuchadnezzar, may you live forever! Tell us your dream and we will tell you what it means!"
+\v 4 The men who studied the stars replied to the king, (what follows is written in the Aramaic language). They said, "King Nebuchadnezzar, may you live forever! Tell us, your servants, your dream and we will tell you what it means!"
 
 \s5
 \p
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ to those who understand.
 
 \s5
 \v 5 But we have sinned and done things that are wrong. We have done wicked things, and we have rebelled against you. We have turned away and disobeyed your commands.
-\v 6 Your prophets spoke for you, giving your messages to our kings, to our other rulers, to our other ancestors, and to all the Israelite people, but we did not listen to them.
+\v 6 Your servants the prophets spoke for you, giving your messages to our kings, to our other rulers, to our other ancestors, and to all the Israelite people, but we did not listen to them.
 
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 \pi

41-MAT.usfm

@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ If I had done these same miracles in Sodom of long ago, those wicked people woul
 \c 12
 \p
 \v 1 On a Sabbath at that time, Jesus and the disciples were walking past some grain fields. Because the disciples were hungry, they began to pick some of the heads of grain and eat them, something that the law of Moses allowed.
-\v 2 Some Pharisees saw them doing that, so they said to Jesus, "Look! Your disciples are doing work on our day of rest. The law does not allow that!"
+\v 2 Some Pharisees saw them doing that, so they said to Jesus, "Look! Your disciples are doing work on our Sabbath day of rest. The law does not allow that!"
 
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 \p
@@ -827,12 +827,12 @@ If I had done these same miracles in Sodom of long ago, those wicked people woul
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 \p
 \v 9 After Jesus left there that day, he went into a synagogue.
-\v 10 There he saw a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees kept wanting to debate with Jesus about the Sabbath, so one of them asked him, "Does God permit us to heal people on our day of rest?" They were hoping that Jesus would commit a sin by saying something wrong.
+\v 10 There he saw a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees kept wanting to debate with Jesus about the Sabbath, so one of them asked him, "Does God permit us to heal people on our Sabbath day of rest?" They were hoping that Jesus would commit a sin by saying something wrong.
 
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 \p
 \v 11 He replied to them, "Suppose that one of you had just one sheep, and that it fell into a deep hole on the Sabbath day. Would you just leave it there? Certainly not! You would take hold of it and lift it out right away!
-\v 12 But a person is much more valuable than a sheep. So it is certainly right for us to do good by healing another person any day, even on our day of rest!"
+\v 12 But a person is much more valuable than a sheep. So it is certainly right for us to do good by healing another person any day, even on our Sabbath day of rest!"
 
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 \v 13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" The man stretched out his withered hand, and it became healthy like the other hand!
@@ -2392,7 +2392,7 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
 
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 \p
-\v 62 The next day was Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. The chief priests and some of the Pharisees went to Pilate.
+\v 62 The next day, the Jewish day on which they prepared to celebrate the Passover, the chief priests and some of the Pharisees went to Pilate.
 \v 63 They said, "Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive, he said, 'Three days after I die I will become alive again.'
 \v 64 So we ask you to order soldiers to guard the tomb for three days. If you do not do that, his disciples may come and steal the body. Then they will tell people that he has risen from the dead. If they deceive people by saying that, it will be worse than the way he deceived people before."
 

43-LUK.usfm

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
 \v 27 When Joseph and Mary brought their baby, Jesus, to the temple in order to perform the rituals that God had commanded in his laws, the Spirit led Simeon to enter the temple courtyard.
 \v 28 Then he took Jesus up in his arms and praised God, saying,
 \q1
-\v 29 "Lord, you have made me content and I can now die in peace according to your promise.
+\v 29 "Lord, you have made me, your servant, content and I can now die in peace according to your promise.
 
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@@ -1446,19 +1446,19 @@ Jesus said to him, "Yes, so now you should go and act like that toward everyone
 
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 \p
-\v 10 On one Jewish day of rest, Jesus was teaching people in one of the synagogues.
+\v 10 On one of the Sabbath days of rest, Jesus was teaching people in one of the synagogues.
 \v 11 There was a woman there whom an evil spirit had crippled for eighteen years. She was always bent over; she could not stand up straight.
 
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 \v 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over to him. He said to her, "Woman, I have healed you of this illness!"
 \v 13 He put his hands on her. Immediately she stood up straight and began praising God!
 \p
-\v 14 But the leader of the synagogue was angry because Jesus had healed her on the Jewish rest day. So he said to the people, "There are six days each week in which our laws permit people to work. If you need healing, those are the days to come to the synagogue and be healed." Do not come on our day of rest!"
+\v 14 But the leader of the synagogue was angry because Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day of rest. So he said to the people, "There are six days each week in which our laws permit people to work. If you need healing, those are the days to come to the synagogue and be healed." Do not come on the Sabbath day of rest!"
 
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 \p
-\v 15 Then the Lord replied to him, "You and your fellow religious leaders are hypocrites! Each of you also works on the day of rest sometimes! Would you not untie your ox or donkey to lead it from the food trough to where it can drink water?
-\v 16 This woman is a Jew, descended from Abraham! But Satan has kept her crippled for eighteen years, as though he had tied her up! Certainly you would agree that it is right that I free her from Satan, even if I do it on a day of rest!"
+\v 15 Then the Lord replied to him, "You and your fellow religious leaders are hypocrites! Each of you also works on the Sabbath day of rest sometimes! Would you not untie your ox or donkey to lead it from the food trough to where it can drink water?
+\v 16 This woman is a Jew, descended from Abraham! But Satan has kept her crippled for eighteen years, as though he had tied her up! Certainly you would agree that it is right that I free her from Satan, even if I do it on the Sabbath day of rest!"
 
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 \v 17 After he said that, his enemies were ashamed of themselves. But all the other people were happy about all the wonderful things he was doing.
@@ -1510,13 +1510,13 @@ But he will reply, 'No, I will not open it, because I do not know you, and I do
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 \c 14
 \p
-\v 1 One day, which was a day of rest, Jesus went to eat at the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees, and they were watching him carefully.
+\v 1 One day, which was the Sabbath day of rest, Jesus went to eat at the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees, and they were watching him carefully.
 \v 2 Right there in front of Jesus was a man who had a disease that caused his arms and legs to be very swollen.
-\v 3 Jesus asked the experts in Jewish law and the Pharisees who were present, "Is it permitted in the law to heal people on the day of rest, or not?"
+\v 3 Jesus asked the experts in Jewish law and the Pharisees who were present, "Is it permitted in the law to heal people on the Sabbath day of rest, or not?"
 
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 \v 4 They did not reply. So Jesus put his hands on the man and healed him. Then he told him he could go.
-\v 5 And he said to the others there, "If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on the day of rest, would you not immediately pull him out?"
+\v 5 And he said to the others there, "If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on the Sabbath day of rest, would you not immediately pull him out?"
 \v 6 Again, they were not able to answer him.
 
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@@ -2446,7 +2446,7 @@ Jesus replied, "Yes, it is just as you have asked me."
 \v 22 Pilate spoke to them a third time and asked them, "Why? What crime has he committed? He has done nothing for which he deserves to die. So I will have my soldiers whip him and then set him free."
 
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-\v 23 But they kept insisting with loud voices that Jesus should be die on a cross. Finally, because they continued to shout so loudly, they persuaded Pilate
+\v 23 But they kept insisting with loud voices that Jesus should die on a cross. Finally, because they continued to shout so loudly, they persuaded Pilate
 \v 24 to do what they requested.
 \v 25 So he set free the man who was in prison because he had fought against the government and murdered people! He then commanded the soldiers to take Jesus and do what the crowd wanted.
 
@@ -2461,7 +2461,7 @@ Jesus replied, "Yes, it is just as you have asked me."
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 \v 29 For I want you to know that there will soon be a time when people will say, 'How fortunate are the women who have never given birth to children or nursed babies!'
 \v 30 Then the people in this city will say, 'We wish that the mountains would fall on top of us and that the hills would cover us up!'
-\v 31 If I have to die, even though I have nothing wrong, terrible things will certainly happen to people who deserve to die.
+\v 31 If I have to die, even though I have done nothing wrong, terrible things will certainly happen to people who deserve to die.
 
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44-JHN.usfm

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ John answered, "No."
 \p Now that day was the Sabbath, the day of rest.
 
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-\v 10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath day, and you know it is against our law for you to carry your mat on this day of rest."
+\v 10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath day, and you know it is against our law for you to carry your mat on this Sabbath day of rest."
 \v 11 The man who had been healed said to them, "But the one who healed me told me, 'Take up your bed and walk!'"
 
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45-ACT.usfm

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 12 Then after the two angels left, the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which was a short distance from Jerusalem.
+\v 12 Then after the two angels left, the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which was a short distance from Jerusalem, a distance called a "Sabbath Day's Journey." 
 \v 13 After they entered the city, they went into the upstairs room in the house where they were staying. Those who were there included Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, another James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of another man named James.
 \v 14 All these apostles began to pray together all the time. Others who prayed with them included the women who had been with Jesus, and Mary who was Jesus' mother, as well as his brothers, who were all younger than he was.
 
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
 \p
 \v 23 After Peter and John left the council, they went to the other believers and told them everything that the chief priests and Jewish elders had said to them.
 \v 24 When the believers heard this, they all agreed as they prayed to God together, "O Lord! You made the sky, the earth and the oceans, and everything in them.
-\v 25 The Holy Spirit caused our ancestor, King David, who served you, to write these words:
+\v 25 The Holy Spirit caused our ancestor, King David, your servant, to write these words:
 \q 'Why did the nations of the world become angry
 \q and the Israelite people plan uselessly against God?
 \q
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 29 So now, Lord, listen to what they are saying about how they will punish us! Help us who serve you to speak about Jesus to everyone!
+\v 29 So now, Lord, listen to what they are saying about how they will punish us! Help us, your servants, to speak about Jesus to everyone!
 \v 30 Use your power to do great miracles of healing, signs and wonders in the name of your holy servant, Jesus!"
 \p
 \v 31 When the believers had finished praying, the place where they were meeting shook. The Holy Spirit gave them all power to boldly speak the words that God told them to speak, and this is what they did.
@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@
 \c 17
 \p
 \v 1 They traveled through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to the city of Thessalonica. There was a Jewish meeting place there.
-\v 2 On the sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ.
+\v 2 On the Sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each Sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ.
 
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 \v 3 He showed from the scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Christ would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus, the one I proclaim to you, is the Christ. He died and became alive again, just like the prophets said he would."