Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/master' into ReformatPoetry

01-GEN/01.usfm

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 \v 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
 \v 2 The earth was without form and empty. Darkness was upon the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God was moving above the surface of the waters.
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 \v 3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
 \v 4 God saw the light, that it was good. He divided the light from the darkness.
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-\v 20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the expanse of the sky."
+\v 20 God said, "Let the waters be filled with great numbers of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the expanse of the sky."
-\v 21 God created the great sea creatures, as well as every living creature after its kind, creatures that move and with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
+\v 21 God created the great sea creatures, as well as every living creature after its kind, creatures that move and which fill the waters everywhere, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
 
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 \v 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Let birds multiply on the earth."

01-GEN/02.usfm

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-\v 18 Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper corresponding to him."
+\v 18 Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him."
 \v 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
-\v 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to all the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field. But for the man himself there was found no helper corresponding to him.
+\v 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to all the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field. But for the man himself there was found no helper suitable for him.
 
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 \v 21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, so the man slept. Yahweh God took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh where he took the rib.

01-GEN/03.usfm

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 \v 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
-\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
+\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent lied to me, and I ate."
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 \q "Because you have done this,
 \q cursed are you alone among all the livestock
 \q and all the beasts of the field.
-\q It is on your belly that you will go, 
+\q It is on your stomach that you will go,
 \q and it is dust that you will eat all the days of your life.
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 \v 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
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 \q and have eaten from the tree, concerning which I commanded you,
 \q saying, 'You may not eat from it,'
 \q cursed is the ground because of you;
-\q in painful toil you will eat from it all the days of your life. 
+\q through painful work you will eat from it all the days of your life.
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 \v 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
 \q and you will eat the plants of the field.

01-GEN/05.usfm

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 \v 28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son.
-\v 29 He called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed."
+\v 29 He called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the painful labor of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed."
 
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 \v 30 Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah. He became the father of more sons and daughters.

01-GEN/06.usfm

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 \v 4 Giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. This happened when the sons of God married daughters of men, and they had children with them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
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 \v 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

01-GEN/07.usfm

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 \v 16 The animals that went in were male and female of all flesh; they entered in just as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut the door after them.
 
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-\v 17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark. It rose up from upon the earth.
+\v 17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
-\v 18 The water came in torrents and greatly increased upon the earth, and the ark floated upon the surface of the water.
+\v 18 The waters completely covered over the earth, and the ark floated upon the surface of the water.
 
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-\v 19 The waters forced themselves higher and higher on the earth. They completely covered all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven.
+\v 19 The waters rose greatly on the earth so that all the high mountains that were under the entire sky were covered.
 \v 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits above the tops of the mountains.
 
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-\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: the birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the swarming creatures that swarmed upon the earth, and all mankind.
+\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: the birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the living creatures that lived in great numbers upon the earth, and all mankind.
-\v 22 All beings in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all those of the dry land, died.
+\v 22 All living creatures who lived on the land, who breathed the breath of life through their noses, died.
 
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 \v 23 So every living thing that was on the surface of the earth was wiped out, from mankind to the larger animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky. They were all destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
-\v 24 The water dominated the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
+\v 24 The water did not go down to the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

01-GEN/08.usfm

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-\v 1 God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to recede.
+\v 1 God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.
 \v 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
-\v 3 The flood waters receded from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days, the water had decreased considerably.
+\v 3 The flood waters when down slowly from the earth. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
 
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 \v 4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
-\v 5 The water continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
+\v 5 The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
 
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 \v 6 It came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
-\v 7 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the water was dried up from the earth.
+\v 7 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters was dried up from the earth.
 
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-\v 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground, 
+\v 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the earth,
-\v 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.
+\v 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.
 
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 \v 10 He waited another seven days and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
-\v 11 The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water had subsided from off the earth.
+\v 11 The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.
 \v 12 He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.
 
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 \v 15 God said to Noah,
 \v 16 "Go out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
-\v 17 Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you, including the birds, the livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may abound throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
+\v 17 Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—so that they may grow unto very large numbers of living creatures throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
 
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 \v 18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
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 \v 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
-\v 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the inclination of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.
+\v 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the intentions of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.
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 \v 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat,
 \q summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."

01-GEN/09.usfm

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 \v 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
-\v 9 "As for me, listen! I am going to establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
+\v 9 "As for me, listen! I am going to confirm my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
 \v 10 and with every living creature that is with you, with the birds, the livestock, and every creature of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark, to every living creature on the earth.
 
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-\v 11 I hereby establish my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
+\v 11 I hereby confirm my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
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 \v 12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
 \v 13 I have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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 \v 15 then I will call to mind my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. The waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
 
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-\v 16 The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to commemorate the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
+\v 16 The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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-\v 17 Then God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
+\v 17 Then God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
 
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 \v 22 Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
-\v 23 So Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so they did not see their father's nakedness.
+\v 23 So Shem and Japheth took a robe and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so they did not see their father's nakedness.
 
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 \v 24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
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 \v 26 He also said,
 \q "May Yahweh, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant.
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-\v 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant."
+\v 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant."
 
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01-GEN/12.usfm

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 \v 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him to do, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
 \v 5 Abram took Sarai, his wife, Lot, his brother's son, all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Haran. They left to go into the land of Canaan, and came to the land of Canaan.
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 \v 6 Abram passed through the land as far as Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites lived in the land.
 \v 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So there Abram built an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

01-GEN/13.usfm

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01-GEN/18.usfm

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 \v 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, very advanced in age, and Sarah had passed the age when women could bear children.
-\v 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying to herself, "After I have become worn out, will I have this pleasure, my master being old also?"
+\v 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying to herself, "After I am worn-out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"
 
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 \v 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really bear a child, when I am old'?

01-GEN/19.usfm

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 \v 10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
-\v 11 As for the men who were outside the door of the house, Lot's visitors attacked them with blindness, both young and old, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the door.
+\v 11 Then Lot's visitors struck with blindness the men who were outside the door of the house, both young and old, so that they became exhausted when they were trying to find the door.
 
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01-GEN/24.usfm

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-\v 1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
+\v 1 Now Abraham was very old and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
 \v 2 Abraham said to his servant, the one who was the oldest of his household and who was in charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh
 \v 3 and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I make my home.
 \v 4 But you will go to my country, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac."

01-GEN/31.usfm

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 \v 51 Laban said to Jacob, "Look at this pile, and look at the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
 \v 52 This pile is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to me, to do harm.
-\v 53 May the God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Jacob swore by God, him whom his father Isaac feared.
+\v 53 May the God of Abraham, and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us." Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
 
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 \v 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his relatives to eat a meal. They ate and spent the entire night on the mountain.
 \v 55 Early in the morning Laban got up, kissed his grandsons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.
 
 
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01-GEN/32.usfm

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-\v 3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau, in the land of Seir, in the region of Edom.
+\v 3 Jacob sent messengers on ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, in the region of Edom.
-\v 4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you will say to my master Esau: This is what your servant Jacob says: 'I have been staying with Laban, and I have stayed until now.
+\v 4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you will say to my master Esau: This is what your servant Jacob says: 'I have been staying with Laban, and have delayed my return until now.
-\v 5 I have oxen, donkeys, and flocks, male servants, and female servants.  I have sent to tell this to my master, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
+\v 5 I have oxen, donkeys, and flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent this message to my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.'"
 
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 \v 6 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
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 \v 13 Jacob stayed there that night. He took some of what he had with him as a gift for Esau, his brother:
 \v 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
 \v 15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
-\v 16 These he handed over to his servants, every herd by itself. He said to his servants, "Go on ahead of me and put a space between each of the herds."
+\v 16 These he gave these into the hand of his servants, every herd by itself. He said to his servants, "Go on ahead of me and put a space between each of the herds."
 
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 \v 17 He instructed the first servant, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these animals in front of you?'

01-GEN/33.usfm

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 \v 20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
 
 
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01-GEN/34.usfm

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 \v 24 All the men of the city listened to Hamor and Shechem, his son. Every male was circumcised.
-\v 25 On the third day, when they were very sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each man took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
+\v 25 On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of the sons of Jacob (Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers), each took his sword and they attacked the city that was certain of its security, and they killed all the males.
-\v 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword. They took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.
+\v 26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword. They took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.
 
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 \v 27 The other sons of Jacob came to the dead bodies and looted the city, because the people had defiled their sister.
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 \v 31 But Simeon and Levi said, "Should Shechem have dealt with our sister as with a prostitute?"
 
 
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01-GEN/35.usfm

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 \v 29 Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his ancestors, an old man full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
 
 
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01-GEN/36.usfm

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 \v 33 When Bela died, then Jobab son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
 
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-\v 34 When Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
+\v 34 When Jobab died, Husham who was of the land of the Temanites, reigned in his place.
-\v 35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
+\v 35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
 \v 36 When Hadad died, then Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
 
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 \v 43 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the clan heads of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.
 
 
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01-GEN/37.usfm

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 \v 34 Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth upon his loins. He mourned for his son many days.
-\v 35 All his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "Indeed I will go down to sheol mourning for my son." His father wept for him.
+\v 35 All his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "Indeed I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son." His father wept for him.
 \v 36 The Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard.
 
 

01-GEN/38.usfm

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 \v 30 Then his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread upon his hand, and he was named Zerah.
 
 
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01-GEN/39.usfm

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 \v 23 The prison warden did not worry about anything that was in his hand, because Yahweh was with him. Whatever he did, Yahweh prospered.
 
 
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01-GEN/40.usfm

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 \v 23 Yet the chief of the  did not remember to help Joseph. Instead, he forgot about him.
 
 
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01-GEN/41.usfm

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 \v 57 All the earth was coming to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
 
 
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01-GEN/42.usfm

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 \v 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring Benjamin back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him to you again."
-\v 38 Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the road in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol."
+\v 38 Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the road in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol."
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01-GEN/43.usfm

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 \v 34 Joseph sent portions to them from the food in front of him. But Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of his brothers. They drank and were merry with him.
 
 
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01-GEN/44.usfm

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 \v 27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
 \v 28 And the one went out from me and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since."
-\v 29 And if you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol.'
+\v 29 And if you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol.'
 
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 \v 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life,
-\v 31 it will come about, when he sees that the boy is not with us that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to sheol.
+\v 31 it will come about, when he sees that the boy is not with us that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
 \v 32 For your servant became a guarantee for the boy to my father and said, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the guilt to my father forever.'
 
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01-GEN/45.usfm

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 \v 12 Look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
 \v 13 You will tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and of all that you have seen. You will hurry and bring my father down here."
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 \v 14 He hugged his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
 \v 15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After that his brothers talked with him.

01-GEN/46.usfm

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 \v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 
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-\v 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah,(but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
+\v 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
 \v 13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Lob, and Shimron;
 \v 14 The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel
-\v 15 These were the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
+\v 15 These were the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
 
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 \v 16 The sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Er, Arodi, and Areli.
-\v 17 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. And Serah was their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel
+\v 17 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah; and Serah was their sister. The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel
-\v 18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter. These she bore to Jacob—sixteen in all.
+\v 18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter. These sons she bore to Jacob—sixteen in all.
 
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 \v 19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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 \v 25 These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter—seven in all.
 
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-\v 26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives were sixty-six in all.
+\v 26 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob, who were his descendants, not counting Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six in all.
 \v 27 With the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, the members of his family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
 
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01-GEN/47.usfm

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 \v 25 They said, "You have saved our lives. May we find favor in your eyes. We will be Pharaoh's servants."
-\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
+\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
 
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 \v 10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned with very great and grievous sorrow. There Joseph made a seven day mourning for his father.
 \v 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why the place was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 
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 \v 12 So his sons did for Jacob just as he had instructed them.
 \v 13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. Abraham had bought the cave with the field for a burial place. He had bought it from Ephron the Hittite.
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-\v 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the evil we did to him?"
+\v 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph holds on to anger against us and wants to repay us in full for all the evil we did to him?"
 \v 16 So they commanded the presence of Joseph, saying, "Your father gave instructions before he died, saying,
 \v 17 'Tell Joseph this, "Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin when they did evil to you."' Now please forgive the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
 
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 \v 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, together with his father's family. He lived one hundred ten years.
 \v 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. He also saw the children of Machir son of Manasseh, who were placed on the knees of Joseph. 
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 \v 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will surely come to you and lead you up out of this land to the land which he swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
 \v 25 Then Joseph made the people of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to you. At that time you must carry up my bones from here."

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 \v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
 \v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
 \v 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
-\v 5 Everyone who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
+\v 5 All the people who were descendants of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
 
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-\v 8 Then a new king arose over Egypt, who did not care for the memory of Joseph.
+\v 8 Now then a new king arose over Egypt, one who did not know about Joseph.
-\v 9 He said to his people, "Look at the Israelites; they are more numerous and stronger than we are.
+\v 9 He said to his people, "Look, the Israelites are more numerous and stronger than we are.
-\v 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the land."
+\v 10 Come, let us deal with them wisely, otherwise they will continue to grow in numbers, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the land."
 
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 \v 11 So they put taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. The Israelites built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.

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 \v 13 Moses reached out with his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind over the land all that day and night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
 
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-\v 14 The locusts went through all the land of Egypt and infested all parts of it. So many locusts had never before been in the land and never will be again.
+\v 14 The locusts went through all the land of Egypt and infested all parts of it. Never before had there been such a swarm of locusts in the land, and nothing like this will come after it.
 \v 15 They covered the surface of the whole land so that it was darkened. They ate every plant in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Throughout all the land of Egypt, no living green plant remained, nor any tree or plant in the fields.
 
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 \v 28 Pharaoh said to Moses, "Go from me! Be careful about one thing, that you do not see me again, for on the day you see my face, you will die."
 \v 29 Moses said, "You yourself have spoken. I will not see your face again."
 
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 \v 10 When Pharaoh came close, the Israelites looked up and were surprised. The Egyptians were marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to Yahweh.
 \v 11 They said to Moses, "Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us like this, bringing us out of Egypt?
-\v 12 Is this not what we told you in Egypt? We said to you, 'Leave us alone, so we can work for the Egyptians. It would have been better for us to work for them than to die in the wilderness.'"
+\v 12 Is this not what we told you in Egypt? We said to you, 'Leave us alone, so we can work for the Egyptians.' It would have been better for us to work for them than to die in the wilderness."
 
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 \v 13 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the rescue that Yahweh will provide for you today. For you will never see again the Egyptians whom you see today.

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 \v 13 In your covenant loyalty you have led the people you have rescued.
 \q In your strength you have led them to the holy place where you live.
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 \v 14 The peoples will hear, and they will tremble;

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 \v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it into basins; he sprinkled the other half onto the altar.
 
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-\v 7 He took The Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will do all that Yahweh has spoken. We will be obedient."
+\v 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will do all that Yahweh has spoken. We will be obedient."
 \v 8 Then Moses took the blood and sprinkled it onto the people. He said, "This is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you by giving you this promise with all these words."
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
 \v 2 "Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me from every person who is motivated by a willing heart. You must receive these offerings for me.
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 \v 3 These are the offerings that you must receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
 \v 4 blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen; goats' hair;

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-\v 15 You must make vertical boards out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
+\v 15 You must make upright frames out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
-\v 16 The length of each board must be ten cubits, and its width must be one and a half cubits.
+\v 16 The length of each frame must be ten cubits, and its width must be one and a half cubits.
-\v 17 There must be two projections in each board for joining the boards to each other. You are to make all the tabernacle's boards in this way. 
+\v 17 There must be two wooden pegs in each frame for joining the frames to each other. You are to make all the tabernacle's frames in this way.
-\v 18 When you make the boards for the tabernacle, you must make twenty boards for the south side.
+\v 18 When you make the frames for the tabernacle, you must make twenty frames for the south side.
 
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-\v 19 You must make forty silver bases to go under the twenty boards. There must be two bases under the first board to be its two pedestals, and also two bases under each of the other boards for their two pedestals.
+\v 19 You must make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames. There must be two bases under the first frame to be its two pedestals, and also two bases under each of the other frames for their two pedestals.
-\v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, you must make twenty boards
+\v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, you must make twenty frames
-\v 21 and their forty silver bases. There must be two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+\v 21 and their forty silver bases. There must be two bases under the first frame, two bases under the next frame, and so on.
 
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-\v 22 For the back side of the tabernacle on the west side, you must make six boards.
+\v 22 For the back side of the tabernacle on the west side, you must make six frames.
-\v 23 You must make two boards for the back corners of the tabernacle.
+\v 23 You must make two frames for the back corners of the tabernacle.
-\v 24 These boards must be separate at the bottom, but joined at the top to the same ring. It must be this way for both of the back corners.
+\v 24 These frames must be separate at the bottom, but joined at the top to the same ring. It must be this way for both of the back corners.
-\v 25 There must be eight boards, together with their silver bases. There must be sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+\v 25 There must be eight frames, together with their silver bases. There must be sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first frame, two bases under the next frame, and so on.
 
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-\v 26 You must make crossbars of acacia wood—five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
+\v 26 You must make crossbars of acacia wood—five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
-\v 27 five crossbars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the boards for the back side of the tabernacle to the west.
+\v 27 five crossbars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the frames for the back side of the tabernacle to the west.
-\v 28 The crossbar in the center of the boards, that is, halfway up, must reach from end to end.
+\v 28 The crossbar in the center of the frames, that is, halfway up, must reach from end to end.
 
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-\v 29 You must cover the boards with gold. You must make their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and you must cover the bars with gold.
+\v 29 You must cover the frames with gold. You must make their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and you must cover the bars with gold.
 \v 30 You must set up the tabernacle by following the plan you were shown on the mountain.
 
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 \v 31 You must make a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen, with designs of cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
 \v 32 You must hang it on four pillars of acacia wood covered with gold. These pillars must have hooks of gold set on four silver bases.
-\v 33 You must hang up the curtain under the clasps, and you must bring in the ark of the covenant decrees. The curtain is to separate the holy place from the most holy place. 
+\v 33 You must hang up the curtain under the clasps, and you must bring in the ark of the testimony. The curtain is to separate the holy place from the most holy place.
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-\v 34 You must put the atonement lid on the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the most holy place.
+\v 34 You must put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony, which is in the most holy place.
 \v 35 You must place the table outside the curtain. You must place the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. The table must be on the north side.
 
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-\v 20 You must command the Israelites to bring pure olive oil of pressed olives for the lamps so that they may burn continually.
+\v 20 You must command the people of Israel to bring olive oil, pure and pressed, for the lamps so they may burn continually.
-\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is before the ark of the covenant decrees, Aaron and his sons must maintain the lamps from evening to morning before Yahweh. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance forever throughout the generations of the Israelite nation.
+\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance throughout the generations of the people of Israel.

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 \v 28 They must tie the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod's rings with a blue cord, so that it might be attached just above the ephod's woven waistband. This is so that the breastpiece might not become unattached from the ephod.
 
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-\v 29 When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of Israel's twelve sons in the breastpiece for decision making on his heart. This will serve as a constant reminder to Yahweh.
+\v 29 When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of the people of Israel over his heart in the breastpiece for decision making, as a continuing memorial before Yahweh.
-\v 30 You must put in the breastpiece for decision making the Urim and the Thummim. They must be on Aaron's breast when he goes in before Yahweh, and Aaron must constantly carry the decision making for the Israelites on his breast before Yahweh.
+\v 30 You are to put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastpiece for decision making, so they may be over Aaron's heart when he goes in before Yahweh. Thus Aaron will always carry the means for making decisions for the people of Israel over his heart before Yahweh.
 
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 \v 41 You must clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. You must anoint them, ordain them, and set them apart to me, so that they may serve me as priests.
 
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-\v 42 You must make them linen undergarments to cover their private parts, undergarments that will cover them from the waist to the thighs.
+\v 42 You must make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh, that will cover them from the waist to the thighs.
-\v 43 Aaron and his sons must wear these when they enter the tent of meeting or when they approach the altar to serve in the holy place. They must do this so that they may bear no iniquity and die. This will be a permanent law for Aaron and his descendants after him.
+\v 43 Aaron and his sons must wear these garments when they enter the tent of meeting or when they approach the altar to serve in the holy place. They must do this so they would not be guilty or else they would die. This is a permanent law for Aaron and his descendants after him.
 
 
 

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 \v 15 You must also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
-\v 16 You must kill the ram. Then take its blood and sprinkled it against the altar on every side and on it.
+\v 16 You must kill the ram, then take its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.
 \v 17 You must cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts and its legs, and you must put the inner parts, together with its pieces and with its head,
 \v 18 on the altar. Then burn the whole ram. It will be a burnt offering to me, Yahweh. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
 
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 \v 23 Take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of bread without yeast that will be before me, Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 You must put these in Aaron's hands and in the hands of his sons. They must raise them up before me, Yahweh, and present them as an offering to me.
+\v 24 You must put these in Aaron's hands and in the hands of his sons and wave them before me for a wave offering before Yahweh.
 \v 25 You must then take the food from their hands and burn it on the altar with the burnt offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
 
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-\v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and raise it up and present it as an offering to me, Yahweh. Then it will be your portion to eat.
+\v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh, and it will be your share.
-\v 27 You must set apart to me the breast of the offering that is raised high and the thigh of the offering that is presented—the breast that is raised and the thigh that is presented, both coming from the ram for the confirmation of Aaron and his sons to me.
+\v 27 You must set apart to me the breast of the wave offering that is waved, and the thigh that is the contribution for the priests—both the breast that was waved and the thigh that was contributed for Aaron and his sons.
-\v 28 These portions of meat, given by the Israelites, must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
+\v 28 These portions of meat given by the Israelites must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
 
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-\v 31 You must take the ram for the dedication of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.
+\v 31 You must take the ram for the installation of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.
 \v 32 Aaron and his sons must eat the ram's meat and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 \v 33 They must eat the meat and bread that were given to atone for them and to ordain them, to be set apart to me. No one else may eat that food, because they must treat it as consecrated to me, reserved for me.
 \v 34 If any of the meat of the ordination offering, or any of the bread, remains to the next morning, then you must burn it. It must not be eaten because it has been set apart to me.

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 \v 5 You must make the poles of acacia wood, and you must cover them with gold.
-\v 6 You must put the incense altar before the curtain that is by the ark of the covenant decrees. It will be before the atonement lid that is over the ark of the covenant decrees, where I will meet with you.
+\v 6 You must put the incense altar before the curtain that is by the ark of the testimony. It will be before the atonement lid that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.
 
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 \v 7 Aaron must burn fragrant incense every morning. He must burn it when he tends the lamps.
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 \v 25 You must make holy anointing oil with these ingredients, the work of a perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil, reserved for me.
 
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-\v 26 You must anoint the tent of meeting with this oil, as well as the ark of the covenant decrees,
+\v 26 You must anoint the tent of meeting with this oil, as well as the ark of the testimony,
 \v 27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its equipment, the incense altar,
 \v 28 the altar for burnt offerings with all its equipment, and the basin with its stand.
 
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 \v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum—sweet spices along with pure frankincense, each in equal amounts.
 \v 35 Make it into the form of incense, blended by a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and set apart.
-\v 36 You will grind it into a very fine mixture. Put part of it in front of the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. You will regard it as very holy to me.
+\v 36 You will grind it into a very fine mixture. Put part of it in front of the ark of the testimony, which is in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. You will regard it as very holy to me.
 
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 \v 37 As for this incense that you will make, you must not make any with the same formula for yourselves. It must be most holy to you.

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 \v 6 In addition to him, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan. I have put skill into the hearts of all who are wise so that they may make all that I have commanded you. This includes
-\v 7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant decrees, the atonement lid on the ark, and all the furniture of the tent—
+\v 7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid on the ark, and all the furniture of the tent—
 \v 8 the table and its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its equipment, the incense altar,
 \v 9 the altar for burnt offerings with all its equipment, and the large basin with its base.
 

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-\v 25 Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get out of control, to mocking from their enemies.
+\v 25 Moses saw that the people were running wild (for Aaron had let them get out of control, causing their enemies to mock them).
 \v 26 Then Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me." All the Levites gathered around him.
 \v 27 He said to them, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this: 'Let each man fasten his sword on his side and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and kill his brother, his companion, and his
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-\v 28 The Levites did what Moses ordered. That day about three thousand men out of the people died.
+\v 28 The Levites did what Moses ordered. That day about three thousand of the people died.
 \v 29 Moses said to the Levites, "You have been placed into Yahweh's service today, for each of you has taken action against his son and his brother, so Yahweh might give you a blessing today."
 
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 \v 10 Every skilled man among you is to come and make everything that Yahweh has commanded—
-\v 11 the tabernacle with its tent, its covering, its clasps, boards, bars, posts, and bases;
+\v 11 the tabernacle with its tent, its covering, its clasps, frames, bars, posts, and bases;
 \v 12 also the ark with its poles, the atonement lid, and the curtain to conceal it.
 
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 \v 20 Then all the tribes of Israel left and went away from Moses's presence.
 \v 21 Everyone whose heart stirred him up and whom his spirit made willing came and brought an offering to Yahweh for the construction of the tabernacle, for all the items of service in it, and for the holy garments.
-\v 22 They came, both men and women, all who had a willing heart. They brought brooches, earrings, rings, and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry. They all presented offerings of gold to Yahweh.
+\v 22 They came, both men and women, all who had a willing heart. They brought brooches, earrings, rings, and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry. They all presented offerings of gold as a wave offering to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet wool, fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or sea cow skins brought them.

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-\v 1 So Bezalel and Oholiab will work, as well as every who was wise of heart, in whom Yahweh has put skill and understanding to know how to build the holy place, following the instructions that he has given you to do."
+\v 1 So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom Yahweh has given skill and ability to know how to do any work in the construction of the holy place are to do the work according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
 
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 \v 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain of the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain that joined the second set.
 
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-\v 18 Bezalel made fifty bronze clasps to join tent together so that it might be one piece.
+\v 18 Bezalel made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be one piece.
 \v 19 He made for the tabernacle a covering of ram skins dyed red, another covering of fine leather to go above that.
 
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-\v 20 Bezalel made vertical boards out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
+\v 20 Bezalel made vertical frames out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
-\v 21 The length of each board was ten cubits, and its width was one and a half cubits.
+\v 21 The length of each frame was ten cubits, and the width of each frame was one and a half cubits.
-\v 22 There were two projections in each board for joining the boards to each other. He made all the tabernacle's boards in this way.
+\v 22 Each frame had two wooden pegs for joining the frames together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
-\v 23 In this way he made the boards for the tabernacle. He made twenty boards for the south side.
+\v 23 He made the frames for the tabernacle in this way: twenty frames for the south side.
 
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-\v 24 Bezalel made forty silver bases to go under the twenty boards. There were two bases under the first board to be its two pedestals, and also two bases under each of the other boards for their two pedestals.
+\v 24 Bezalel made forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames. There were two bases under one frame to join the frames together, and also two bases under each of the other frames to join frames together.
-\v 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
+\v 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames
-\v 26 and their forty silver bases. There were two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+\v 26 and their forty silver bases. There were two bases under the first frame, two bases under the next frame, and so on.
 
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-\v 27 For the back of the tabernacle on the west, Bezalel made six boards.
+\v 27 For the back of the tabernacle on the west, Bezalel made six frames.
-\v 28 He made two boards for the back corners of the tabernacle.
+\v 28 He made two frames for the back corners of the tabernacle.
 
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-\v 29 These boards were separate at the bottom, but joined at the top to the same ring. It was this way for both of the back corners.
+\v 29 These frames were separate at the bottom, but joined at the top in one ring. He made two of them in this way for the two corners.
-\v 30 There were eight boards, together with their silver bases. There were sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+\v 30 There were eight frames, together with their silver bases. There were sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first frame, two bases under the next frame, and so on.
 
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-\v 31 Bezalel made crossbars of acacia wood—five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
+\v 31 Bezalel made crossbars of acacia wood—five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
-\v 32 five crossbars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the boards for the back side of the tabernacle to the west. 
+\v 32 five crossbars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the frames for the back side of the tabernacle to the west.
-\v 33 He made the crossbar in the center of the boards, that is, halfway up, to reach from end to end.
+\v 33 He made the crossbar in the center of the frames, that is, halfway up, to reach from end to end.
-\v 34 He covered the boards with gold. He made their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and he covered the bars with gold.
+\v 34 He covered the frames with gold. He made their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and he covered the bars with gold.
 
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-\v 24 All the gold that was used for the project, in all the work connected with the holy place—the gold from the presentation offering—was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, measured by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
+\v 24 All the gold that was used for the project, in all the work connected with the holy place—the gold from the wave offering—was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, measured by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
 \v 25 The silver given by the community weighed one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel,
 \v 26 or one beka per man, which is half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel. This figure was reached on the basis of every person who was counted in the census, those twenty years old and older—603,550 men in all.
 
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 \v 27 One hundred talents of silver were cast for the bases of the holy place and the curtain's bases: one hundred bases, one talent for each base.
 \v 28 With the remaining 1,775 shekels of silver, Bezalel made the hooks for the posts, covered the tops of the posts, and made the rods for them.
-\v 29 The bronze from the offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
+\v 29 The bronze from wave offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
 
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 \v 32 So the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The people of Israel did everything. They followed all the instructions that Yahweh had given to Moses.
-\v 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses—the tent and all its equipment, its clasps, boards, bars, posts, and bases;
+\v 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses—the tent and all its equipment, its clasps, frames, bars, posts, and bases;
 \v 34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow leather, and the curtain to conceal
-\v 35 the ark of the covenant decrees, as well as the poles and the atonement lid.
+\v 35 the ark of the testimony, as well as the poles and the atonement lid.
 
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 \v 2 "On the first day of the first month of the new year you must set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 3 You must place the ark of the covenant decrees in it, and you must shield the ark with the curtain.
+\v 3 You must place the ark of the testimony in it, and you must shield the ark with the curtain.
 \v 4 You must bring in the table and set in order the things that belong on it. Then you must bring in the lampstand and set up the lamps.
 
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-\v 5 You must put the golden incense altar before the ark of the covenant decrees, and you must put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
+\v 5 You must put the golden incense altar before the ark of the testimony, and you must put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
 \v 6 You must put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
 \v 7 You must put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and you must put water in it.
 
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 \v 17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.
-\v 18 Moses set up the tabernacle, put its bases in place, set up its boards, attached its bars, and set up its pillars and posts.
+\v 18 Moses set up the tabernacle, put its bases in place, set up its frames, attached its bars, and set up its pillars and posts.
 \v 19 He spread the covering over the tabernacle and put tent over it, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 \v 20 He took the covenant decrees and put them into the ark. He also placed the poles on the ark and put the atonement lid on it.
 
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-\v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle. He set up the curtain for it to shield the ark of the covenant decrees, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle. He set up the curtain for it to shield the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 \v 22 He put the table into the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain.
 \v 23 He placed the bread in order on the table before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 

03-LEV/02.usfm

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 \v 16 Then the priest will burn part of the crushed grain and oil and incense as a representative offering. This is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
 
 
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03-LEV/03.usfm

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 \v 9 The man will offer the sacrifice of fellowship offerings as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat, the entire fat tail cut away close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the inner parts and all the fat that is near the inner parts,
 \v 10 and the two kidneys and the fat that is with them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys—he will remove all of this.
-\v 11 And the priest will burn it all on the altar as a food offering made by fire to Yahweh.
+\v 11 And the priest will burn it all on the altar as a burnt offering of food to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 15 He will also remove the two kidneys and the fat that is with them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver with the kidneys.
-\v 16 The priest will burn all that on the altar as a food offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma. All the fat belongs to Yahweh.
+\v 16 The priest will burn all that on the altar as a burnt offering of food, to produce a sweet aroma. All the fat belongs to Yahweh.
 \v 17 It will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in every place you make your home, that you must not eat fat or blood.'"
 
 

03-LEV/04.usfm

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 \v 4 He must bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, lay his hand on its head, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
 \v 5 The anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and take it to the tent of meeting.
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 \v 6 The priest will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before Yahweh, before the curtain of the most holy place.
 \v 7 And the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting, and he will pour out all the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

03-LEV/05.usfm

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 \v 14 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
 \v 15 "If anyone violates a command and sins against the things that belong to Yahweh, but did so unintentionally, then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh. This offering must be a ram without blemish from the flock; its value must be appraised in silver shekels—the shekel of the sanctuary—as a guilt offering.
-\v 16 He must satisfy Yahweh for what he had done wrong in connection with what is holy, and he must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and that person will be forgiven.
+\v 16 He must satisfy Yahweh for what he had done wrong in connection with what is holy, and he must add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and that person will be forgiven.
 
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03-LEV/06.usfm

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 \v 4 then it will come about, if he has sinned and is guilty, that he must restore whatever he took by robbery or oppression or taking what was entrusted to him or the lost thing that he found.
 
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-\v 5 Or if he lied about any matter, he must restore it in full and must add one fifth more to pay him to whom it is owed, on the day that he is found guilty.
+\v 5 Or if he lied about any matter, he must restore it in full and must add one-fifth more to pay him to whom it is owed, on the day that he is found guilty.
 \v 6 Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh: a ram without blemish from the flock that is worth the current value, as a guilt offering to the priest.
 \v 7 The priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he has become guilty of doing."
 

03-LEV/07.usfm

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 \v 15 The person presenting a peace offering for the purpose of giving thanks must eat the meat of his offering on the day of the sacrifice. He must not leave any of it until the next morning.
 \v 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is for the purpose of a vow, or for the purpose of a freewill offering, the meat must be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, but whatever remains of it may be eaten on the next day.
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 \v 17 However, whatever meat of the sacrifice remains on the third day must be burned.
 \v 18 If any of the meat of the sacrifice of one's peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither will it be credited to the one who offered it. It will be a disgusting thing, and the person who eats it will carry the guilt of his sin.
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 \v 28 So Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
 \v 29 "Speak to the people of Israel and say, 'He who offers the sacrifice of a peace offering to Yahweh must bring part of his sacrifice to Yahweh.
-\v 30 The offering for Yahweh to be made by fire, his own hands must bring it. He must bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be an offering raised before Yahweh and presented to him.
+\v 30 The offering for Yahweh to be made by fire, his own hands must bring it. He must bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before Yahweh.
 
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 \v 33 The priest, one of Aaron's descendants, who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat—he will have the right thigh as his share of the offering.
-\v 34 For I have taken the offering of the breast and thigh that was raised and presented to me, and I have given them to Aaron, the high priest and to his descendants; this will always be their share from the sacrifices of peace offerings made by the people of Israel.
+\v 34 For I have taken from the people of Israel, the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh that is the contribution, and they have been given to Aaron the priest and his sons as their regular share.
 
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03-LEV/08.usfm

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 \v 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.
 \v 26 Out of the basket of bread without yeast that was before Yahweh, he took one loaf without yeast, and one loaf of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
-\v 27 He put it all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, raised them high as an offering before Yahweh.
+\v 27 He put it all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them before Yahweh as a wave offering.
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 \v 28 Then Moses took them from off their hands and burned them on the altar for the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering and produced a sweet aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
-\v 29 Moses took the breast and raised it high as an offering to Yahweh. It was Moses' share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 29 Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering to Yahweh. It was Moses' share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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03-LEV/09.usfm

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 \v 8 So Aaron went near the altar and killed the calf for the sin offering, which was for himself.
 \v 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into it and put it on the horns of the altar; then he poured out the blood at the base of the altar.
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 \v 11 And he burned the meat and the hide outside the camp.
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 \v 20 They took the parts that were cut out and put these on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar.
-\v 21 Aaron raised the breasts and the right thigh high as an offering before Yahweh and presented them to him, as Moses had commanded.
+\v 21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses had commanded.
 
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03-LEV/10.usfm

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 \v 13 You must eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons' share of the offerings to Yahweh made by fire, for this is what I have been commanded to tell you.
 
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-\v 14 The breast that is raised as an offering and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh—these you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
+\v 14 The breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh, you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
-\v 15 The thigh that is an offering presented to Yahweh and the breast that is raised as an offering—they must bring those together with the offerings of fat made by fire, to raise them high and present them as an offering to Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
+\v 15 The thigh that is presented and the breast that is waved, they must bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to wave before Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
 
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03-LEV/11.usfm

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 \v 20 All winged insects that walk on four legs are detestable to you.
-\v 21 Yet you may eat any of the flying insects that also walk on four legs if they have a jointed legs for hopping on the ground.
+\v 21 Yet you may eat any of the flying insects that also walk on four legs if they have jointed legs for hopping on the ground.
 \v 22 And you may also eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
 \v 23 But all the flying insects that have four feet must be detested by you.
 

03-LEV/14.usfm

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 \v 11 The priest who cleansed him will stand the person who is to be cleansed, along with those things, before Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil; he will raise them up as an offering before Yahweh and present them to him.
+\v 12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil; he will wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
 \v 13 He must kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offerings and the burnt offerings, in the area of the tabernacle, for the sin offering belongs to the priest, as does the guilt offering, because it is most holy.
 
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-\v 21 However, if the person is poor and cannot afford these sacrifices, then he may take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be raised and presented to Yahweh to make atonement for himself, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil, 
+\v 21 However, if the person is poor and cannot afford these sacrifices, then he may take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for himself, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,
 \v 22 together with two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; one bird will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
 \v 23 On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting, before Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 Then the priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and he will raise them up as an offering to Yahweh and present them to him.
+\v 24 The priest will take the lamb for an offering, and he will take with it the log of olive oil, and he will lift them high as he presents them to Yahweh.
 \v 25 He will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, and he will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
 
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03-LEV/17.usfm

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 \v 10 And anyone of Israel, or any foreigner who lives among them, who consumes any blood, I will set my face against that person, anyone who consumes blood; I will cut him off from among his people.
 \v 11 For the life of an animal is in its blood. I have given its blood to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, because it is the blood that makes atonement, for it is the blood that atones for the life.
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 \v 12 Therefore I said to the people of Israel that no one among you must eat blood, neither may any foreigner who lives among you eat blood.
 \v 13 And anyone of the people of Israel, or any of the foreigners who live among them, who hunts and kills an animal or bird that may be eaten, that person must pour out its blood and cover the blood with earth.

03-LEV/18.usfm

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 \v 22 Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.
 \v 23 Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.
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 \v 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.

03-LEV/20.usfm

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 \v 19 You must not sleep with your mother's sister, or with your father's sister, because you would disgrace your close relative. You must carry your own guilt.
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-\v 20 If a man sleeps with his uncle's wife, he has disgraced his uncle. They must carry their own guilt and die childless.
+\v 20 If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. When they die, I will punish both of them, and when they die, I will take away any inheritance their children might receive from their parents.
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-\v 21 If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity because he has had relations violating his brother's marriage, and they will be childless.
+\v 21 If a man marries his brother's wife while his brother is still living, that is disgraceful. He has dishonored his brother, and I will take away from their children any property they may have inherited from their parents. 
 
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03-LEV/21.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses: "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'No one among you shall make himself unclean for those who die among his people,
-\v 2 except for a close relative—for his mother and father, for his son and daughter, or for his brother 
+\v 2 except for his closest relatives—his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
-\v 3 or a virgin sister who is in his house and who has had no husband. For her he may make himself unclean.
+\v 3 or his virgin sister who has no husband—he may make himself unclean for her.
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-\v 4 But he must not make himself unclean for other relatives, so as to defile himself.
+\v 4 But he must not make himself unclean for other relatives and so defile himself.
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 \v 5 Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards, nor cut their bodies.
-\v 6 They must be separate for their God, and not disgrace the name of their God, because the priests offer the sacrifices to Yahweh by fire, the "food" of their God. Therefore they must be separate.
+\v 6 They must be holy to their God and not disgrace the name of their God, because the priests offer Yahweh's food offerings, the bread of their God. Therefore the priests must be holy.
 
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 \v 7 They must not marry any woman who is a prostitute and who is defiled, and they must not marry a woman divorced from her husband, for they are separate for their God.
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-\v 8 You will set him apart, for he offers the bread of your God. He must be holy to you, because—I, Yahweh, who makes you holy—I also am holy.
+\v 8 You will set him apart, for he is the one who offers bread to your God. He must be holy to you, because—I, Yahweh, who makes you holy—I also am holy.
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 \v 9 Any daughter of any priest who defiles herself by becoming a prostitute disgraces her father. She must be burned.
 
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-\v 10 He who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the special garments of the high priest, must not wear his hair loose or tear his clothes.
+\v 10 The one who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the special garments of the high priest, must not wear his hair loose or tear his clothes.
 \v 11 He must not go anywhere that a dead body is present and defile himself, even for his father or his mother.
 \v 12 The high priest must not leave the sanctuary area of the tabernacle or profane the sanctuary of his God, because he has been consecrated as high priest by the anointing oil of his God. I am Yahweh.
 
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 \v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 17 "Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'Whoever of your descendants throughout their generations has a bodily defect, he must not approach to offer the 'food' of his God.
+\v 17 "Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'Whoever of your descendants throughout their generations has a bodily defect, he must not approach to offer the food to his God.
 
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-\v 18 Any man who has a bodily defect must not approach Yahweh, such as a blind man, a lame man, one who is disfigured or deformed,
+\v 18 Any man who has a bodily defect must not approach Yahweh, such as a blind man or a man who is unable to walk, one who is disfigured or deformed,
 \v 19 a man with a crippled hand or foot,
-\v 20 hunchbacked or dwarfed man, or a man with a defect in his eyes, or with a disease, sore, scabs, or damaged private parts.
+\v 20 a man who has hump in his back or is abnormally thin or short, or a man with a defect in his eyes, or with a disease, sore, scabs, or whose testicles have been crushed.
-\v 21 No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest with a bodily defect may come near to perform the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. Such a man has a bodily defect; he must not come near to offer the 'food' of his God.
+\v 21 No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest with a bodily defect may come near to perform the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. Such a man has a bodily defect; he must not come near to offer the bread of his God.
 
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03-LEV/22.usfm

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-\v 14 If a man eats a holy food without knowing it, then he must repay the priest for it; he must add one fifth to it and give it back to the priest.
+\v 14 If a man eats a holy food without knowing it, then he must repay the priest for it; he must add one-fifth to it and give it back to the priest.
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 \v 15 The people of Israel must not dishonor the holy things that they have raised high and presented to Yahweh,
 \v 16 and cause themselves to carry the sin that would make them guilty of eating the holy food, for I am Yahweh who makes them holy.'"
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-\v 24 Do not offer animals to Yahweh that have bruised, crushed, torn, or cut reproductive organs. Do not offer these in your land,
+\v 24 Do not offer any animal to Yahweh that has bruised, crushed, torn, or cut testicles. Do not do this within your land.
-\v 25 and do not accept them from a foreigner's hand as food presented to God, because there are defects or blemishes in them. I will not accept them on your behalf.'"
+\v 25 You must not present the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner. Those animals are deformed and have defects in them, they will not be accepted for you.'"
 
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 \v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am Yahweh."
 
 
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03-LEV/23.usfm

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 \v 15 Beginning from the day after the Sabbath—that was the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering—count seven full weeks.
 \v 16 You must count fifty days, which would be the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you must present an offering of new grain to Yahweh. 
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-\v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be an offering from the firstfruits that will be raised and presented to Yahweh.
+\v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be a wave offering of the firstfruits to Yahweh.
 \v 18 You must present with the bread seven lambs one year old and without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They must be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire and producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
 
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 \v 19 You must offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice, as fellowship offerings.
-\v 20 The priest must raise them up before Yahweh, together with the bread of the firstfruits, and present them to him as an offering with the two lambs. They will be holy offerings to Yahweh for the priest.
+\v 20 The priest must wave them together with the bread of the firstfruits before Yahweh, and present them to him as an offering with the two lambs. They will be holy offerings to Yahweh for the priest.
 \v 21 You must make a proclamation on that same day. There will be a holy assembly, and you must do no ordinary work. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in all the places where you live.
 
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 \v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
 \v 24 "Speak to the people of Israel and say, 'In the seventh month, the first day of that month will be a solemn rest for you, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets, and a holy assembly.
 \v 25 You must do no ordinary work, and you must offer a sacrifice made by fire to Yahweh.'"
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 \v 26 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 27 "Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It must be an assembly that is set apart to Yahweh, you must humble yourselves and present an offering to Yahweh by fire.
+\v 27 "Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is to  be a holy assembly, and you must humble yourselves and present to Yahweh an offering by fire.
 
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 \v 28 You must do no work on that day because it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for yourselves before Yahweh your God.

03-LEV/24.usfm

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 \v 7 You must put pure incense along each row of loaves as a representative offering. This incense will be burnt for Yahweh.
 \v 8 Every Sabbath day the high priest must regularly set out the bread before Yahweh on behalf of the people of Israel, as a sign of an everlasting covenant.
 \v 9 This offering will be for Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a place that is holy, for it is a portion from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire."
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 \v 10 Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against an Israelite man in the camp.

03-LEV/25.usfm

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 \v 5 You must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grows by itself, and you must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grapes grow on your unpruned vines. This will be a year of solemn rest for the land.
 \v 6 Whatever the unworked land grows during the Sabbath year will be food for you. You, your male and female servants, your hired servants and the foreigners who live with you may gather food.
 \v 7 And your livestock and also wild animals may eat whatever the land produces.
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 \v 8 You must count off seven Sabbaths of years, that is, seven times seven years, so that there will be seven Sabbaths of years, totaling forty-nine years.
 \v 9 Then you must blow a loud trumpet everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you must blow a trumpet throughout all your land.
 
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-\v 10 You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families. 
+\v 10 You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families.
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-\v 11 The fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. You must not plant or conduct an organized harvest. Eat whatever grows by itself, and gather the grapes that grow on the unpruned vines.
+\v 11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You must not plant or conduct an organized harvest. Eat whatever grows by itself, and gather the grapes that grow on the unpruned vines.
-\v 12 For it is a jubilee, which will be holy for you. You must eat the produce that grows by itself out of the fields.
+\v 12 For it is a Jubilee, which will be holy for you. You must eat the produce that grows by itself out of the fields.
 
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-\v 13 You must return everyone to his own property in this year of jubilee.
+\v 13 You must return everyone to his own property in this year of Jubilee.
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 \v 14 If you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any land from your neighbor, you must not cheat or wrong each other.
 
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-\v 15 If you buy land from your neighbor, consider the number of years and crops that can be harvested until the next jubilee. Your neighbor selling the land must consider that also. 
+\v 15 If you buy land from your neighbor, consider the number of years and crops that can be harvested until the next Jubilee. Your neighbor selling the land must consider that also.
-\v 16 A larger number of years until the next jubilee will increase the value of land, and a smaller number of years until the next jubilee will decrease the value, because the number of harvests the land will produce for the new owner is related to the number of years before the next jubilee.
+\v 16 A larger number of years until the next Jubilee will increase the value of land, and a smaller number of years until the next Jubilee will decrease the value, because the number of harvests the land will produce for the new owner is related to the number of years before the next Jubilee.
 \v 17 You must not cheat or wrong one another; instead, you must honor your God, for I am Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 26 If a man has no relative to redeem his property, but if he has prospered and has the ability to redeem it,
 \v 27 then he may calculate the years since the land was sold and repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it. Then he may return to his own property.
-\v 28 But if he is not able to get the land back for himself, then the land he has sold will remain in the ownership of the one who bought it until the year of jubilee. At the year of jubilee, the land will be returned to the man who sold it, and the original owner will return to his property.
+\v 28 But if he is not able to get the land back for himself, then the land he has sold will remain in the ownership of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. At the year of Jubilee, the land will be returned to the man who sold it, and the original owner will return to his property.
 
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 \v 29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may buy it back within a whole year after it was sold. For a full year he will have the right of redemption.
-\v 30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the man who bought it, throughout his descendants' generations. That house is not to be returned in the jubilee.
+\v 30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the man who bought it, throughout his descendants' generations. That house is not to be returned in the year of Jubilee.
 
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-\v 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. They may be redeemed, and they must be returned during the jubilee.
+\v 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. They may be redeemed, and they must be returned during the year of Jubilee.
 \v 32 However, the houses owned by the Levites in their cities may be redeemed at any time.
 
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-\v 33 If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.
+\v 33 If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the year of Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.
 \v 34 But the fields around their cities may not be sold because they are the permanent property of the Levites.
 
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 \v 39 If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.
-\v 40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of jubilee. 
+\v 40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee.
 \v 41 Then he will go away from you, he and his children with him, and he will return to his own family and to his fathers' property.
 
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 \v 47 If a foreigner or someone living temporarily with you has become wealthy, and if one of your fellow Israelites has become poor and sells himself to that foreigner, or to someone in a foreigner's family,
 \v 48 after your fellow Israelite has been bought, he may be bought back. Someone in his family may redeem him.
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 \v 49 It might be the person's uncle, or his uncle's son, who redeems him, or anyone who is his close relative from his family. Or, if he has become prosperous, he may redeem himself.
-\v 50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
+\v 50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
 
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-\v 51 If there are still many years until jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.
+\v 51 If there are still many years until the year of Jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.
-\v 52 If there are only a few years to the year of jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.
+\v 52 If there are only a few years to the year of Jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before the year of Jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.
 
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 \v 53 He is to be treated like a man hired year by year. You must make sure he is not treated with harshness.
-\v 54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
+\v 54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
 \v 55 To me the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"
 
 

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-\v 23 If in all this you still do not accept my teaching but continue to walk against me, 
+\v 23 If in spite of these things you still do not accept my correction and you continue to walk in opposition to me,
-\v 24 then I will also walk against you. I myself will hit you with even seven times more blows for your sins.
+\v 24 then I will also walk in opposition to you, and I myself will punish you seven times because of your sins.
 
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-\v 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be defeated by the power of your enemy.
+\v 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.
 \v 26 When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
 
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 \v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies' lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
 \v 35 As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.
+\p
 \v 36 As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.
 
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 \v 40 Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers' sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me—
-\v 41 which caused me to turn against them and give them over into their enemies' land—if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins, 
+\v 41 which caused me to turn against them and I brought them into the land of their enemies—if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins,
 \v 42 then will I call to mind my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; also, I will call the land to mind.
 
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03-LEV/27.usfm

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 \v 14 When a man sets apart his house as a holy gift to Yahweh, then the priest will set its value as either good or bad. Whatever the priest values it, so it will be.
-\v 15 But if the owner who set apart his home and later wishes to redeem it, he must add a fifth of its value to its redemption price, and it will belong to him.
+\v 15 But if the owner who set apart his home wishes to redeem it, he must add a fifth of its value to its redemption price, and it will belong to him.
 
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 \v 16 If a man sets apart some of his own land, then the valuation of it will be in proportion to the amount of seed required to plant it—a homer of barley will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
 
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-\v 17 If he sets apart his field during the year of jubilee, the valuation of it will stand.
+\v 17 If he sets apart his field during the year of Jubilee, the valuation of it will stand.
-\v 18 But if he sets apart his field after the jubilee, then the priest must calculate the value of the field by the number of years that remain until the next year of jubilee, and the valuation of it must be reduced.
+\v 18 But if he sets apart his field after the year of Jubilee, then the priest must calculate the value of the field by the number of years that remain until the next year of Jubilee, and the valuation of it must be reduced.
 
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 \v 19 If the man who set apart the field wishes to redeem it, then he must add a fifth to the valuation, and it will be become his again.
 \v 20 If he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed any more.
-\v 21 Instead, the field, when it is released in the jubilee, will be a holy gift to Yahweh, like the field that has been completely given to Yahweh. It will belong to the priest.
+\v 21 Instead, the field, when it is released in the  year of Jubilee, will be a holy gift to Yahweh, like the field that has been completely given to Yahweh. It will belong to the priest.
 
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 \v 22 If a man sets apart a field that he has bought, but that field is not part of his family's land,
-\v 23 then the priest will figure the valuation of it up to the year of jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.
+\v 23 then the priest will figure the valuation of it up to the year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 In the year of jubilee, the field will return to the man from whom it was bought, to the land's owner.
+\v 24 In the year of Jubilee, the field will return to the man from whom it was bought, to the land's owner.
 \v 25 All the valuations must be set by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel.
 
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 \v 26 No one may set apart the firstborn among animals, since the firstborn already belongs to Yahweh; whether ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.
 \v 27 If it is an unclean animal, then the owner may buy it back at the valuation of it, and a fifth must be added to that value. If the animal is not redeemed, then it is to be sold at the set value.
 
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-\v 28 However, nothing a man sets apart from anything he has, whether human or animal, or his family land, may be sold or redeemed. Everything that is devoted is holy to Yahweh.
+\v 28 But nothing that a man devotes to Yahweh, from all that he has, whether human or animal, or his family land, may be sold or redeemed. Everything that is devoted is very holy to Yahweh.
 \v 29 No ransom may be paid for the person who is devoted for destruction. That person must be put to death.
 
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 \v 31 If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
 
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-\v 32 As for all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, one tenth must be set apart to Yahweh. 
+\v 32 As for every tenth of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, one-tenth must be set apart to Yahweh.
 \v 33 The shepherd must not search for the better or the worse animals, and he must not substitute one for another. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy. It cannot be redeemed.'"
 
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04-NUM/01.usfm

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 \v 54 The people of Israel did all these things. They did everything that Yahweh commanded through Moses.
 
 
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04-NUM/04.usfm

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 \v 4 The descendants of Kohath must take care of the most holy things reserved for me in the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 5 When the camp prepares to move forward, Aaron and his sons must go into the tent, take down the curtain that separates the most holy place from the holy place, and cover the ark of the covenant decrees with it.
+\v 5 When the camp prepares to move forward, Aaron and his sons must go into the tent, take down the curtain that separates the most holy place from the holy place and cover the ark of the testimony with it.
 \v 6 They must cover the ark with sea cow skins. They must spread a blue cloth over it. They must insert the poles to carry it.
 
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04-NUM/05.usfm

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 \v 5 Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
 \v 6 "Speak to the people of Israel. When a man or woman commits any sin such as people do to one another, and is unfaithful to me, that person is guilty.
-\v 7 Then he must confess the sin that he has done. He must completely pay back the price of his guilt and add to the price one fifth more. He must give this to the one he has wronged.
+\v 7 Then he must confess the sin that he has done. He must completely pay back the price of his guilt and add to the price one-fifth more. He must give this to the one he has wronged.
 
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 \v 8 But if the wronged person has no close relative to receive the payment, he must pay the price for his guilt to me through a priest, along with a ram to atone for himself.
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 \v 20 But if you, a woman under her husband, have gone astray, if you are defiled, and if some other man has slept with you,
 \v 21 then, (the priest must cause the woman to swear an oath that can bring down a curse on her, and then he must continue speaking to the woman) 'Yahweh will make you into a curse that will be shown to your people to be such. This will happen if Yahweh causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.
-\v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach, swell your abdomen and waste away your thighs.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.'
+\v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thighs waste away.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.'
 
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04-NUM/06.usfm

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 \v 19 The priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one loaf of bread without yeast out of the basket, and one wafer without yeast. He must place them into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his head indicating separation.
-\v 20 The priest must raise them high as an offering before Yahweh and present them to him. This is holy food reserved for the priest, together with the breast that was raised and the thigh that was offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
+\v 20 The priest must wave them as an offering before Yahweh, a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented for the priest. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
 
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04-NUM/07.usfm

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 \v 12 On the first day, Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, offered his sacrifice.
 \v 13 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
-\v 14 He also gave one gold dish, that weighed ten shekels and was full of incense.
+\v 14 He gave one gold dish that weighed ten shekels and was full of incense.
 
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 \v 15 He gave as a burnt offering one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old male lamb.
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-\v 89 When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him. Yahweh spoke to him from above the atonement lid on the ark of the covenant decrees, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him.
+\v 89 When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him. Yahweh spoke to him from above the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him.
 
 
 

04-NUM/08.usfm

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 \v 3 Aaron did this. He lit the lamps on the lampstand to give light toward the front of it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
-\v 4 The lampstand was made in this way: Yahweh had shown Moses the pattern for it: hammered gold from its base to its top, with hammered cups like blossoms.
+\v 4 The lampstand was made in this way and Yahweh showed Moses the pattern for it. It was to be hammered gold from its base to its top, with hammered cups like blossoms.
 
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 \v 9 Present the Levites in front of the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole community of the people of Israel.
 \v 10 Present the Levites before me, Yahweh. The people of Israel must lay their hands on the Levites.
-\v 11 Aaron must offer the Levites before me, presenting them as if they were raised high before him, on the behalf of the people of Israel. He must do this so that the Levites may serve me.
+\v 11 Aaron must offer the Levites before Yahweh, as a wave offering from the people of Israel. He must do this so that the Levites may serve me.
 
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 \v 12 The Levites must place their hands on the heads of the bulls. You must offer one bull for a sin offering and the other bull for a burnt offering to me, to atone for the Levites.
-\v 13 Present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and lift them up as an offering to me.
+\v 13 Present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and lift them up as a wave offering to me.
 
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 \v 14 In this way you must separate the Levites from among the people of Israel. The Levites will belong to me.
-\v 15 After that, the Levites must go in to serve in the tent of meeting. You must purify them. You must lift them up to me as an offering.
+\v 15 After that, the Levites must go in to serve in the tent of meeting. You must purify them. You must offer them as a wave offering.
 
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 \v 16 Do this, because they are entirely mine from among the people of Israel. They will take the place of each male child who opens the womb, the firstborn of all the descendants of Israel. I have taken the Levites for myself.
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 \v 20 Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of the people of Israel did this with the Levites. They did everything that Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites. The people of Israel did this with them.
-\v 21 The Levites purified themselves from sin by washing their clothes. Aaron presented them as an offering to Yahweh and atoned for them, in order to purify them.
+\v 21 The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering to Yahweh and he made atonement for them to cleanse them.
 
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 \v 22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before Aaron's sons. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses about the Levites. They treated all the Levites in this way.

04-NUM/14.usfm

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 \v 4 They said to each another, "Let us choose another leader, and let us return to Egypt."
-\v 5 Then Moses and Aaron lay face down before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
+\v 5 Then Moses and Aaron lay facedown before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were some of those sent to examine the land, tore their clothes.
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 \v 14 They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
 
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-\v 15 Now if you kill this people as one person, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
+\v 15 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
 \v 16 'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them,
 he has killed them in the wilderness.'
 

04-NUM/15.usfm

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 \v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you go into the land where you will live, which Yahweh will give to you—
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you go into the land where you will live, which Yahweh will give to you,
-\v 3 and you are to prepare an offering by fire to him, either a burnt offering, or a sacrifice for a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock.
+\v 3 you are to prepare an offering by fire to Yahweh, either a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a pleasing aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock.
 
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-\v 4 Then the one bringing the sacrifice must offer to Yahweh a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil.
+\v 4 You must offer to Yahweh a burnt offering as well as a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil.
-\v 5 You must also offer one-fourth of a hin of wine with the burnt offering or with the sacrifice of each lamb.
+\v 5 You must also offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, one-fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
 
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 \v 6 If you are offering a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

04-NUM/16.usfm

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 \v 28 Then Moses said, "By this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own accord.
 \v 29 If these men die a natural death such as normally happens, then Yahweh has not sent me.
-\v 30 But if Yahweh creates an opening in the ground that swallows them up like a large mouth, along with all their families, and if they go down alive into sheol, then you must understand that these men have despised Yahweh."
+\v 30 But if Yahweh creates an opening in the ground that swallows them up like a large mouth, along with all their families, and if they go down alive into Sheol, then you must understand that these men have despised Yahweh."
 
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 \v 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their families, and all the people who belonged to Korah, as well as all their possessions.
 
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-\v 33 They and everyone in their families went down alive into sheol. The earth closed over them, and in this way they perished from the midst of the community.
+\v 33 They and everyone in their families went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed over them, and in this way they perished from the midst of the community.
 \v 34 All Israel around them fled from their cries. They exclaimed, "The earth may swallow us up also!"
 \v 35 Then fire flashed out from Yahweh and devoured the 250 men who had offered incense.
 

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 \v 10 These offerings are very holy; every male must eat it, for they are holy to you.
-\v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: their gifts that are set apart from all the raised offerings of the people of Israel, offerings that have been raised high before me and presented to me. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your ongoing share. Everyone who is ritually clean in your family may eat any of these offerings.
+\v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: their gifts, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your ongoing share. Everyone who is ritually clean in your family may eat any of these offerings.
 
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 \v 12 All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you.

04-NUM/23.usfm

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 \v 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob
-\q2 or number even only one fourth of Israel?
+\q2 or number even only one-fourth of Israel?
 \q Let me die the death of a righteous person,
 \q2 and let my life's end be like his!"
 

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-\v 8 God brings him out of Egypt.
+\v 8 God brings him out of Egypt,
-\q He has strength like a wild ox.
+\q with strength like a wild ox.
 \q2 He will eat up the nations who fight against him.
 \q2 He will break their bones to pieces.
 \q2 He will shoot them with his arrows.

04-NUM/25.usfm

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 \v 8 He followed the Israelite man into the tent and thrust the spear through both of their bodies, both the Israelite man and the woman. So a plague that God had sent on the people of Israel stopped.
-\v 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand number.
+\v 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.
 
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04-NUM/28.usfm

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04-NUM/29.usfm

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 \v 3 You must offer with them their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
-\v 4 and one tenth for each lamb of the seven lambs.
+\v 4 and one-tenth for each lamb of the seven lambs.
 \v 5 And you must offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
 
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 \v 40 Moses told the people of Israel everything that Yahweh had commanded him to say.
 
 
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 \v 9 But as for a widow or a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself will remain in force against her.
-\v 10 And if a woman in her husband's family makes a vow—if she binds herself by a promise with an oath,
+\v 10 And if a woman made a vow in her husband's house or obligates herself by taking an oath,
-\v 11 and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her—if he does not cancel her vow, then all her vows must remain in force. Every promise with which she has bound herself remains in force.
+\v 11 and her husband hears of it but he says nothing to her and he does oppose her, then all her vows must stand and the obligations she made must remain in force.
 
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 \v 12 But if her husband cancels them on the day that he heard about them, then whatever came out of her lips about her vows or promises will not remain in force. Her husband has canceled them. Yahweh will release her.

04-NUM/32.usfm

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 \v 17 However, we ourselves will be ready and armed to go with Israel's army until we have led them into their place. But our families will live in the fortified cities because of the other people who still live in this land.
 
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-\v 18 We will not return to our houses until the people of Israel, every man, has obtained his inheritance.
+\v 18 We will not return to our houses until every one of the people of Israel has obtained his inheritance.
 \v 19 We will not inherit the land with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance is here on the east side of the Jordan."
 
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04-NUM/33.usfm

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04-NUM/34.usfm

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04-NUM/35.usfm

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 \v 5 You must measure two thousand cubits from outside the city on the east side, and two thousand cubits to the south side, two thousand cubits to the west side, and two thousand cubits to the north side. This will be the pasturelands for their cities. The cities will be in the center.
 
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-\v 6 Six of the cities that you will give to Levites must serve as cities of refuge. You must provide these as places to which accused murderers can flee. Also provide forty-two other cities.
+\v 6 Six of the cities that you will give to Levites must serve as cities of refuge. You must provide these as places to which a person who has killed someone can flee. Also provide forty-two other cities.
 \v 7 The cities that you give to the Levites will total forty-eight. You must give their pasturelands with them.
 
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 \v 9 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
 \v 10 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
-\v 11 then you must choose cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that any man who kills someone unintentionally may flee to them.
+\v 11 then you must choose cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, a place to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
 
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 \v 12 These cities must be your refuge from the avenger, so that the accused man will not be killed without first standing trial before the community.

04-NUM/36.usfm

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-\v 1 Then the leaders of their ancestor's families in the clan founded by Gilead son of Machir (who was Manasseh's son), who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, they came and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families of the people of Israel.
+\v 1 Then the leaders of the ancestors' families of the clan of Gilead son of Machir (who was Manasseh's son), who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families of the people of Israel.
 \v 2 They said, "Yahweh commanded you, our master, to give a share of land by lot to the people of Israel. You were commanded by Yahweh to give the share of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
 
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 \v 3 But if his daughters marry men in another tribe of the people of Israel, then their share of land will be removed from our ancestor's share. It will be added to the share of the tribes that they join. In that case, it will be removed from the assigned share of our inheritance.
-\v 4 In that case, when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their share will be joined to the share of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their share will be taken away from the share of our ancestors' tribe."
+\v 4 In that case, when the year of Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their share will be joined to the share of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their share will be taken away from the share of our ancestors' tribe."
 
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 \v 13 These are the commands and the decrees that Yahweh gave by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
 
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05-DEU/01.usfm

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 \v 26 Yet you refused to attack, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
-\v 27 You complained in your tents and said, "It is because Yahweh hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to defeat us by the power of the Amorites, and to destroy us.
+\v 27 You complained in your tents and said, "It is because Yahweh hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
 \v 28 Where can we go now? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'Those people are bigger and taller than we are; their cities are large and are fortified up to the heavens; moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"
 
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05-DEU/02.usfm

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 \v 37 It was only to the land of the descendants of Ammon that you did not go, as well as all the side of the Jabbok River, and the cities of the hill country—wherever Yahweh our God had forbidden us to go.
 
 
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05-DEU/03.usfm

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 \v 29 So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth Peor.
 
 
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05-DEU/04.usfm

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 \v 18 or the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
 
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-\v 19 You shall not lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—and be drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things that Yahweh your God has assigned them there for all the people under the whole sky.
+\v 19 You shall not lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—and be drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things of which Yahweh your God has given a share all the peoples under the whole sky.
 \v 20 But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of his own inheritance, as you are today.
 
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05-DEU/05.usfm

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 \v 33 You will walk in all the ways that Yahweh your God has commanded you, so that you may live, and so that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
 
 
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05-DEU/06.usfm

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 \v 25 If we keep all these commands before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us, this will be our righteousness.'
 
 
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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 \v 20 Moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left and who hide themselves from you perish from your presence.
 \v 21 You will not be frightened at them, for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and fearsome God.
 \v 22 Yahweh your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. You will not defeat them all at once, or the wild animals would become very many around you.
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 \v 23 But Yahweh your God will give you victory over them when you meet them in battle; he will greatly confuse them until they are destroyed.
 \v 24 He will put their kings under your power, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
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 \v 25 You will burn the carved figures of their gods—do not covet the silver or the gold that covers them and take it for yourself, because if you do, you will become trapped by it—for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
 \v 26 You will not bring any abomination into your house and start to worship it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

05-DEU/08.usfm

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 \v 20 Like the nations that Yahweh is making to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
 
 
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