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 \q2 and be united to his wife,
 \q
 \v 8 and the two will become one flesh.'
-\q2
 \m So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
 \v 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no man tear apart."
 
@@ -1001,7 +1000,6 @@
 \v 17 He taught them and said, "Is it not written,
 \q 'My house will be called
 \q2 a house of prayer for all the nations'?
-\q2
 \m But you have made it a den of robbers."
 \p
 \v 18 The chief priests and the scribes heard what he had said, and they looked for a way to destroy him. For they feared him because the entire crowd was amazed at his teaching.