Ands, and one from Larry Sallee

05-DEU/03.usfm

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 \v 2 Yahweh said to me, 'Do not fear him; for I have given you victory over him and have put all his people and his land under your control. You will do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'
 
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-\v 3 So Yahweh our God also gave us victory over Og the king of Bashan, and all his people were put under our control. And we struck them down until not one of his people remained.
+\v 3 So Yahweh our God also gave us victory over Og the king of Bashan, and all his people were put under our control. We struck them down until not one of his people remained.
 \v 4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not one city that we did not take from them: sixty cities—all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
 
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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-\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, and drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you.
+\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, he will drive out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you.
 
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-\v 2 And when Yahweh your God gives you victory over them when you meet them in battle, you must attack them, then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
+\v 2 It is Yahweh your God who gives them over to you when you defeat them, and then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, and show them no mercy.
-\v 3 Neither will you arrange any marriages with them; you will not give your daughters to their sons, and you will not take their daughters for your sons.
+\v 3 Neither will you arrange any marriages with them. You will not give your daughters to their sons, and you will not take their daughters for your sons.
 
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 \v 4 For they will turn away your sons from following me, so that they may worship other gods. So the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
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 \v 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; none of the evil diseases of Egypt that you have known will he put on you, but he will put them on all those who hate you.
 
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-\v 16 You will consume all the people groups over which Yahweh your God gives you victory, and your eye will not pity them. And you will not worship their gods, for that will be a trap for you.
+\v 16 You will consume all the people groups over which Yahweh your God gives you victory, and your eye will not pity them. You will not worship their gods, for that will be a trap for you.
 
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05-DEU/08.usfm

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 \v 12 otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
 
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-\v 13 And be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied,
+\v 13 Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied,
 \v 14 then your heart becomes lifted up and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
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05-DEU/12.usfm

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 \v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
 
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-\v 3 And you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
+\v 3 You must break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles. You must cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
 \v 4 You will not worship Yahweh your God like that.
 
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05-DEU/15.usfm

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 \v 15 You must remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you today to do this.
 \v 16 It will happen that if he says to you, 'I will not go away from you,' because he loves you and your house, and because he is well off with you,
-\v 17 then you must take an awl and thrust it through his ear to a door, and he will be your servant forever. And also to your female servant you will do likewise.
+\v 17 then you must take an awl and thrust it through his ear to a door, and he will be your servant forever. You must do the same with your female servant.
 
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 \v 18 It must not seem difficult for you to let him go free from you, because he has served you for six years and given twice the value of a hired person. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

05-DEU/17.usfm

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 \v 15 then you must surely set as king over yourself someone whom Yahweh your God will choose. You must set as king over yourself someone from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner, who is not your brother, over yourself.
 
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-\v 16 But he must not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt so that he may multiply horses, for Yahweh had said to you, 'You must from now on never return that way again.'
+\v 16 But he must not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt so that he may multiply horses, for Yahweh had said to you, 'You will never return that way again.'
-\v 17 And he must not multiply wives for himself, so that his heart does not turn away from Yahweh; neither must he greatly multiply for himself silver or gold.
+\v 17 He must not take many wives for himself, so that his heart does not turn away. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold. 
 
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05-DEU/19.usfm

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 \v 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand strikes with the ax to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the shaft and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—then that man must flee to one of these cities and live.
 
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-\v 6 Otherwise the avenger of blood might go after the one who took a life, and in hot anger he overtakes him because it was a long journey. And he strikes him and kills him, though that man did not deserve to die; and so he does not deserve the death penalty since he did not hate his neighbor before this happened.
+\v 6 Otherwise the avenger of blood might go after the one who took a life, and in the heat of his anger overtake him, if the distance is too great, strike him and kill him, even though that man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
 \v 7 Therefore I command you to select three cities for yourself.
 
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05-DEU/21.usfm

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 \v 2 then your elders and your judges must go out, and they must measure to the cities that are around him who has been killed.
 
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-\v 3 And the city that is nearest to the killed man—its elders must take a heifer from the herd, one that has never been put to work, that has not borne the yoke.
+\v 3 Then the elders of the town nearest to the dead man's body must take a heifer from the herd, one that has never been put to work, and that has not borne the yoke. 
-\v 4 The elders of that city must bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, a valley that has been neither plowed nor sown, and must break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
+\v 4 Then they must lead the heifer down to a valley with running water, a valley that has been neither plowed nor sown, and there in the valley they must break the heifer's neck.
 
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 \v 5 The priests, descendants of Levi, must come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to serve him and to bless the people in the name of Yahweh; listen to their advice, for their word will be the verdict in every dispute and case of assault.

05-DEU/22.usfm

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 \v 16 The girl's father must say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her.
-\v 17 See, he has accused her of shameful things and said, "I did not find in your daughter the proof of virginity"—yet this is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' And then they will spread the garment out before the elders of the city.
+\v 17 See, he has accused her of shameful things and said, "I did not find in your daughter the proof of virginity." But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' Then they will spread the garment out before the elders of the city.
 
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 \v 18 The elders of that city must take that man and punish him;

11-1KI/16.usfm

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 \v 11 When Zimri began to reign and was seated on his throne, he killed all the family of Baasha. He did not leave alive a single male belonging to Baasha's relatives or friends.
-\v 12 So Zimri destroyed all the family of Baasha, according to the the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
+\v 12 So Zimri destroyed all the family of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
 \v 13 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son that they committed, and by which they had led Israel to sin, so that they provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their idols.
 
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