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 \q
-\v 7 The merchants have false scales in their hands;
+\v 7 The merchants have deceitful scales in their hands;
 \q they love to defraud.
 \q
 \v 8 Ephraim said, "I have certainly become very rich;
 \q I have found wealth for myself.
-\q In all my work they will not find any iniquity in me,
+\q In all my labors they will not find any iniquity in me,
 \q anything that would be sin."
 
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@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@
 \q their altars will be like heaps of stone in the furrows of the fields.
 \q
 \v 12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
-\q Israel worked in order to get a wife;
+\q Israel labored in order to get a wife;
 \q and he kept flocks of sheep to get a wife.
 
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@@ -1027,11 +1027,11 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 12 Ephraim's iniquity has been stored up;
-\q his guilt has been stored up.
+\v 12 Ephraim's iniquity has been bound up;
+\q his sin has been stored up.
 \q
 \v 13 Pains of childbirth will come on him,
-\q but he is an unwise son,
+\q but he is not a wise son,
 \q for when it is time to be born, he does not come out of the womb.
 
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