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 \c 9
 \p
 \v 1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of the same month the people of Israel were assembled and they were fasting, and they were wearing sackcloth, and they put dust on their heads.
-\v 2 The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all the foreigners. They stood and confessed their own sins and the iniquiies of their ancestors.
+\v 2 The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all the foreigners. They stood and confessed their own sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.
 
 \s5
 \v 3 They stood up in their places, and for one-fourth of the day they read from the book of the law of Yahweh their God. For another fourth of the day they were confessing and bowing down before Yahweh their God.