Ezekiel into chapter 7

\q and with their ears they hardly hear,
\q and they have shut their eyes.
\q Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
\q and hear with their ears,
\q and understand with their heart and turn again,
\q and I would heal them."'

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ Thank you for your help!
 
 If you have a suggestion to be made, you have one of two options:
 
-1. Fork this repository, make the change and create a pull request. We'll review it and merge it in.
+1. Fork this repository, make the change and create a pull request. We will review it and merge it in.
 1. [Submit an issue](https://git.door43.org/Door43/en_ulb/issues/new). Please be detailed in your report.
 

00-ULB_front&back/ULB-1-Intro.md

@@ -1,25 +1,42 @@
 # Introduction to the Unlocked Literal Bible - English
-The Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB) is an open-licensed version of the Bible derived from The American Standard Version, and updated using the most reliable Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek copies of the Biblical texts available. It is intended to accurately reflect the meanings of those texts and to be used as a source text for Bible translators to translate the Bible into their own language.
+The Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB)  is a relatively literal translation of the  Bible which translators may translate into their own language. It is intended to be used with other resources that help to clarify the meanings of words and phrases in the ULB or original languages. These resources also give suggestions about ways of expressing the meaning that translators might be able to use in their languages. These resources are Translation Words, Translation Notes, Translation Manual, Translation Questions, and the Unlocked Dynamic Bible (UDB).
 
-Some might call the ULB "relatively literal" because it retains many of the grammatical structures, idioms, figures of speech, and semantically complex vocabulary used in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek source documents. But when those grammatical structures, idioms, or figures of speech would be unintelligible or seriously misunderstood in English, the ULB minimally adjusts the grammatical structures and wording in order to express the same meanings in ways that are more clear in English.
-
-The ULB is not meant to be a refined, polished English version. It is meant to present the meaning and structure of the original texts in so far as that can be done clearly and simply, so that it can, in turn, be translated into other languages.
-
-The ULB is intended to be used with other resources that help to clarify the meanings of words and phrases in the ULB or original languages. These resources also give suggestions about ways of expressing the meaning that translators might be able to use in their languages. These resources are translationWords, translationNotes, Translation Manual, translationQuestions, and the Unlocked Dynamic Bible (UDB).
-
-  * **translationWords** explain important terms that are repeated throughout the Bible.
-  * **translationNotes** explain complex theological terms and other translation issues. They also offer alternative translation suggestions.
+  * **Translation Words** explain important terms that are repeated throughout the Bible.
+  * **Translation Notes** explain complex theological terms and other translation issues. They also offer alternative translation suggestions.
   * **Translation Manual** explains different kinds of translation issues and provides strategies for dealing with them.
-  * **translationQuestions** have questions and answers about the text. Translators can use these
+  * **Translation Questions** have questions and answers about the text. Translators can use these
       *  to test their own understanding of the ULB.
       *  to test their community's understanding of their translation to see if it is accurate and clear.
   * **The UDB** shows alternate ways of expressing the meaning in a more natural way. It also replaces many of the figures of speech in the ULB with plain language, and it makes some implicit information explicit.
 
-It is anticipated that the ULB and other resources will be translated from English into the world's Gateway Languages so that translators worldwide can use them as a set of resources for making accurate translations of God's Word in their own languages.
+The ULB and other resources are being translated from English into the world's Gateway Languages so that translators worldwide can use them as a set of resources for making accurate translations of God's Word in their own languages.
+
+**You can learn more about the ULB** in the Appendix to the ULB [[rc://en_ulb/00-About_the_ULB/ULB-3-Appendix.md]]. It has the following sections: 
+* Origin and Purpose of the ULB
+* Notes about Making a "Relatively Literal" Translation
+* Characteristics of the ULB
+* Decisions Concerning the ULB
+* Contributors to the ULB (Fuller list)
 
 ## Viewing
-To read or print the ULB, see the ULB project on Bible in Every Language (https://door43.org/u/WycliffeAssociates/en_ulb/68ed0fd3e4/).
+To read or print the ULB, see "Unlocked Literal Bible" on the "Translations" page of [Bible in Every Language](https://bibleineverylanguage.org/translations/) (https://bibleineverylanguage.org/translations/).
 
-## Appendix to the ULB
+The Unlocked Literal Bible is also integrated into BTT Writer and VMAST so that translators can have  immediate access to it while translating. These tools are available on the Tools page of [Bible in Every Language](https://bibleineverylanguage.org/tools/) (https://bibleineverylanguage.org/tools/).
 
-You can learn more about the ULB in the [[rc://en_ulb/00-About_the_ULB/ULB-3-Appendix.md]]. It has Notes about Making a "Relatively Literal" Translation, Characteristics of the ULB, Decisions Concerning the ULB, and Additional Contributors to the ULB.
+## Questions, comments, and suggestions
+We welcome questions, comments, and suggestions. You may send them to helpdesk@techadvancement.com or training_wa@wycliffeassociates.org.
+
+## Contributors to the ULB
+  - James N. Pohlig, M.Div., MA in Linguistics, D. Litt. in Biblical Languages
+  - W. Thomas Warren, BA (Bible), M.Div., D.Min
+  - Larry Sallee, D.Min.
+  - C. Harry Harriss, M.Div.
+  - Hendrik "Henry" de Vries
+  - Henry Whitney, BA, Education, Translator, Summer Institute of Linguistics 1982-2001
+  - John Hutchins, BA, Bible and Theology, MA, New Testament, MA, Biblical languages
+  - Perry Oakes, PhD in Old Testament, MA in Linguistics
+  - Robert W. Johnson, B.S./M.S., Chemical Engineering
+  - Susan R. Quigley, MA in Linguistics
+  - Forest Deal
+  - Door43 World Missions Community
+  - Wycliffe Associates Staff

00-ULB_front&back/ULB-3-Appendix.md

@@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
-# Appendix to the ULB
+# Appendix to the Unlocked Literal Bible
+
+## Origin and Purpose of the ULB
+
+The Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB) is an open-licensed version of the Bible derived from The American Standard Version, and updated using the most reliable Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek copies of the Biblical texts available. It is intended to accurately reflect the meanings of those texts and to be used as a source text for Bible translators to translate the Bible into their own language.
+
+Some might call the ULB "relatively literal" because it retains many of the grammatical structures, idioms, figures of speech, and semantically complex vocabulary used in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek source documents. But when those grammatical structures, idioms, or figures of speech would be unintelligible or seriously misunderstood in English, the ULB minimally adjusts the grammatical structures and wording in order to express the same meanings in ways that are more clear in English.
+
+The ULB is not meant to be a refined, polished English version. It is meant to present the meaning and structure of the original texts in so far as that can be done clearly and simply, so that it can, in turn, be translated into other languages.
+
+The ULB is intended to be used with other resources that help to clarify the meanings of words and phrases in the ULB or original languages. These resources also give suggestions about ways of expressing the meaning that translators might be able to use in their languages. These resources are Translation Words, Translation Notes, Translation Manual, Translation Questions, and the Unlocked Dynamic Bible (UDB).
+
+  * **Translation Words** explain important terms that are repeated throughout the Bible.
+  * **Translation Notes** explain complex theological terms and other translation issues. They also offer alternative translation suggestions.
+  * **Translation Manual** explains different kinds of translation issues and provides strategies for dealing with them.
+  * **Translation Questions** have questions and answers about the text. Translators can use these
+      *  to test their own understanding of the ULB.
+      *  to test their community's understanding of their translation to see if it is accurate and clear.
+  * **The UDB** shows alternate ways of expressing the meaning in a more natural way. It also replaces many of the figures of speech in the ULB with plain language, and it makes some implicit information explicit.
 
 ## Notes About Making a "Relatively Literal" Translation
   * It is not possible to maintain a one-for-one correspondence between words in translation. One word from the source language may require a phrase for its translation in the target language, and vice-versa.
@@ -48,37 +66,5 @@ The footnotes use the following words in refering to copies and translations:
 The ULB does not have footnotes for every textual issue, but it does address those that readers are most likely to encounter, particularly readers who have access to translations that were based on manuscripts known before the finding of the Dead Sea scrolls.
 
 ## Contributors to the ULB
-  - 'Door43 World Missions Community'
-  - 'Wycliffe Associates Staff'
-  - 'Alrick G. Headley, M.Div., Th.M.'
-  - 'Adam W. Nagelvoort, M.Div. Academic Ministries, Columbia International University'
-  - 'Dave Statezni, BA Theology-Biblical Literature, M.Div. Biblical Literature and Missions focus'
-  - 'Bram van den Heuvel, M.A.'
-  - 'C. Harry Harriss, M.Div.'
-  - 'David Trombold, M. Div.'
-  - 'Elizabeth Oakes, BA in Religious Studies, Linguistics'
-  - 'George "Drew" Curley, M.Div., PhD, Professor of Biblical Languages'
-  - 'Hendrik "Henry" de Vries'
-  - 'Henry Whitney, BA, Education, Translator, Summer Institute of Linguistics 1982-2001'
-  - 'Jesse Griffin, BA Biblical Studies, MA Biblical Languages'
-  - 'James N. Pohlig, M.Div., MA in Linguistics, D. Litt. in Biblical Languages'
-  - 'John Hutchins, BA, Bible and Theology, MA, New Testament, MA, Biblical languages'
-  - 'Larry T. Brooks, M.Div., Assemblies of God Theological Seminary'
-  - 'Larry Sallee, D.Min.' 
-  - 'Paul M Fahnestock, M.Div. Reformed Theological Seminary, D. Min. Pittsburgh Theological Seminary'
-  - 'Perry Oakes, PhD in Old Testament, MA in Linguistics'
-  - 'Peter Smircich, BA Philosophy'
-  - 'Robert W. Johnson, B.S./M.S., Chemical Engineering'
-  - 'Susan R. Quigley, MA in Linguistics'
-  - 'W. Thomas Warren, BA (Bible), M.Div., D.Min'
-  - 'Timothy Neu, Ph.D. Biblical Studies'
-  - 'Ward Pyles, M.Div., Western Baptist Theological Seminary'
-  - 'David Trombold'
-  - 'Dean Ropp'
-  - 'Gene Mullen'
-  - 'James Vigen'
-  - 'Leonard Smith'
-  - 'Nicholas Alsop'
-  - 'Michael Francis'
-
 
+{{manifest}}

01-GEN.usfm

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
 \v 30 To every beast of the earth, to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, and to every creature that has the breath of life I have given every green plant for food." It was so.
 \p
 \v 31 God saw everything that he had made. Behold, it was very good. This was evening and morning, the sixth day.
+\v 31 God saw everything that he had made. Behold, it was very good. This was evening and morning, the sixth day.
 
 \s5
 \c 2
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \p
-\v 4 These were the events concerning the heavens and the earth, when they were created, on the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
+\v 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, on the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
 \p
 \v 5 No bush of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
 \v 6 But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@
 \v 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
 
 \s5
-\v 7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
+\v 7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for their loins.
 \v 8 They heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, so the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
 
 \s5
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \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 lied to me, and I ate."
+\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
 \m
 
 \s5
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 16 To the woman he said,
-\q "I will greatly multiply your pain in having children;
+\q "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth;
 \q it is in pain that you will give birth to children.
 \q Your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you."
 \m
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@
 \c 4
 \p
 \v 1 The man knew Eve his wife and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have produced a man with Yahweh's help."
-\v 2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd, but Cain cultivated the soil.
+\v 2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a keeper of flocks, but Cain cultivated the soil.
 
 \s5
 \v 3 It came about that in the course of time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground as an offering to Yahweh.
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 23 Lamech said to his wives,
-\q "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say.
+\q "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to my words.
 \q For I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
 \q
 \v 24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech will be avenged seventy-seven times."
@@ -348,12 +349,12 @@
 \v 6 Yahweh regretted that he had made mankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
 
 \s5
-\v 7 So Yahweh said, "I will wipe away mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth—mankind and animals, and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."
+\v 7 So Yahweh said, "I will wipe away mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth—mankind and animals, and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them."
 \v 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.
 
 \s5
 \p
-\v 9 These were the events concerning Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
+\v 9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
 \v 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
 \s5
@@ -384,7 +385,7 @@
 \p
 \v 1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
 \v 2 Of every clean animal you will bring with you seven males and seven females. From the animals that are not clean, of them bring two, the male and his mate.
-\v 3 Also of the birds of the sky, bring seven males and seven females, to preserve their offspring upon the surface of all the earth.
+\v 3 Also of the birds of the sky, bring seven males and seven females, to keep their offspring alive upon the surface of all the earth.
 
 \s5
 \v 4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy from off the surface of the ground every living thing that I have made."
@@ -523,7 +524,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \p
-\v 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
+\v 20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
 \v 21 He drank some of the wine and became drunk. He was lying uncovered in his tent.
 
 \s5
@@ -573,7 +574,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \p
-\v 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first conqueror on the earth.
+\v 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was a mighty one on the earth.
 \v 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
 \v 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shinar.
 
@@ -805,7 +806,7 @@
 \v 14 Now when Abram heard that enemies had captured his relative, he led out his 318 trained men who had been born in his house, and he pursued them as far as Dan.
 
 \s5
-\v 15 He divided his men against them at night and attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
+\v 15 He divided his men against them at night, he and his servants, and he pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
 \v 16 Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.
 
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@@ -921,7 +922,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
-\v 8 I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land where you have been living, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
+\v 8 I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land where you have been sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
 
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 \p
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 \s5
 \v 14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, the men who had promised to marry his daughters, and said, "Quick, get out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city." But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
-\v 15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get going, take your wife and your two daughters that are here, so you are not swept away in the punishment of the city."
+\v 15 When dawn came, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get going, take your wife and your two daughters that are here, so you are not swept away in the punishment of the city."
 
 \s5
 \v 16 But he lingered. So the men grabbed his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because Yahweh was merciful to him. They brought them out, and set them outside the city.
@@ -1066,7 +1067,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 21 He said to him, "Alright, I am granting this request also, that I will not destroy the city which you have mentioned.
-\v 22 Hurry! Escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the city was called Zoar.
+\v 22 Hurry! Escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the city was named Zoar.
 
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 \p
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 \s5
 \v 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere to lie with us according to the way of all the world.
-\v 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
+\v 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may keep our family line alive through our father."
 \v 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. Then the firstborn went in and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
 
 \s5
-\v 34 The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Listen, here I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you should go and lie with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
+\v 34 The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Listen, here I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you should go and lie with him, so that we may keep our family line alive through our father."
 \v 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went and lay with him. He did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
 
 \s5
-\v 36 So both the daughters of Lot were pregnant by their father.
+\v 36 So both the daughters of Lot conceived by their father.
 \v 37 The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
 \v 38 As for the younger daughter, she also gave birth to a son, and named him Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the people of Ammon of today.
 
@@ -1120,7 +1121,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 8 Abimelek rose early in the morning and called all of his servants to himself. He told all these things to them, and the men were very afraid.
-\v 9 Then Abimelek called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me that which ought not to be done."
+\v 9 Then Abimelek called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me deeds that ought not to be done."
 
 \s5
 \v 10 Abimelek said to Abraham, "What prompted you to do this thing?"
@@ -1129,7 +1130,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 13 When God caused me to leave my father's house and travel from place to place, I said to her, 'You must show me this faithfulness as my wife: At every place where we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"
-\v 14 Then Abimelek took sheep and cattle, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham. Then he returned Sarah, Abraham's wife, to him.
+\v 14 Then Abimelek took sheep and cattle, and male slaves and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham. Then he returned Sarah, Abraham's wife, to him.
 
 \s5
 \v 15 Abimelek said, "Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever it pleases you."
@@ -1137,7 +1138,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife, and his female slaves so that they were able to have children.
-\v 18 For Yahweh had caused all the women of the household of Abimelek to be completely infertile, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
+\v 18 For Yahweh had closed all the wombs of the household of Abimelek because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
 
 \s5
 \c 21
@@ -1162,7 +1163,7 @@
 \v 11 This thing was very grievous to Abraham because of his son.
 
 \s5
-\v 12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be grieved because of the lad, and because of your servant woman. Listen to her words in all she says to you about this matter, because it is through Isaac that your descendants will be named.
+\v 12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be grieved because of the young man and because of your servant girl. Listen to Sarah's words in all she says to you about this matter, because it is through Isaac that your descendants will be named.
 \v 13 I will also make the son of the servant woman into a nation, because he is your descendant."
 
 \s5
@@ -1171,12 +1172,12 @@
 \v 16 Then she went, and sat down a short distance from him, about the distance of a bowshot away, for she said, "Let me not look upon the death of the child." As she sat there across from him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
 
 \s5
-\v 17 God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
-\v 18 Get up, raise up the lad, and encourage him; for I will make him into a great nation."
+\v 17 God heard the voice of the young man, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the young man where he is.
+\v 18 Get up, raise up the young man, and encourage him; for I will make him into a great nation."
 
 \s5
-\v 19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.
-\v 20 God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
+\v 19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and gave the young man a drink.
+\v 20 God was with the young man, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
 \v 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
 
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@@ -1200,7 +1201,7 @@
 \v 32 They made a covenant at Beersheba, and then Abimelek and Phicol, the captain of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.
 
 \s5
-\v 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba. There he worshiped Yahweh, the eternal God.
+\v 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba. There he called on the name of Yahweh, the eternal God.
 \v 34 Abraham remained as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
 
 \s5
@@ -1212,7 +1213,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place afar off.
-\v 5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there. We will worship and come again to you."
+\v 5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the young man will go over there. We will worship and come again to you."
 \v 6 Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on Isaac his son. He took in his own hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.
 
 \s5
@@ -1226,11 +1227,11 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 11 Then the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" and he said, "Here I am."
-\v 12 He said, "Do not lay your hand upon the lad, nor do anything to harm him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
+\v 12 He said, "Do not lay your hand upon the young man, nor do anything to harm him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
 
 \s5
 \v 13 Abraham looked up and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the bushes by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
-\v 14 So Abraham called that place, "Yahweh will provide," and it is said to this day, "On the mountain of Yahweh it will be provided."
+\v 14 So Abraham named that place, "Yahweh will provide," and it is said to this day, "On the mountain of Yahweh it will be provided."
 
 \s5
 \v 15 The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven
@@ -1259,7 +1260,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 3 Then Abraham rose up and went from his dead wife, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
-\v 4 "I am a foreigner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead."
+\v 4 "I am a foreigner and sojourner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead."
 
 \s5
 \v 5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying,
@@ -1303,7 +1304,7 @@
 \s5
 \v 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land? Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"
 \v 6 Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there!
-\v 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who promised me with a solemn oath saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
+\v 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who promised me with a solemn oath saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
 
 \s5
 \v 8 But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine. Only you are not to take my son back there."
@@ -1311,7 +1312,7 @@
 
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-\v 10 The servant took ten of his master's camels and departed. He also took with him all kinds of gifts from his master. He departed and went to the region of Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
+\v 10 The servant took ten of his master's camels and departed. He also took with him all kinds of goods from his master. He departed and went to the region of Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
 \v 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water. It was evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
 
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 \v 47 I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milkah bore to him.' Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
-\v 48 Then I bowed down and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to find the daughter of my master's relative for his son.
+\v 48 Then I bowed down and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the way that is right to find the daughter of my master's relative for his son.
 
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 \v 49 Now therefore, if you are prepared to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."
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-\v 19 These were the events concerning Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
+\v 19 This is the account of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
 \v 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
 
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-\v 21 Isaac prayed to Yahweh for his wife because she was childless, and Yahweh answered his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
+\v 21 Isaac prayed to Yahweh for his wife because she was barren, and Yahweh answered his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
 \v 22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" She went to ask Yahweh about this.
 
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 \v 24 When it was time for her to give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
 \v 25 The first child came out red all over like a hairy garment. They called his name Esau.
-\v 26 After that, his brother came out. His hand was grasping Esau's heel. He was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when his wife bore them.
+\v 26 After that, his brother came out. His hand was grasping Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when his wife bore them.
 
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 \v 9 Abimelek called Isaac to him and said, "Look, certainly she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."
 \v 10 Abimelek said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
-\v 11 So Abimelek warned all the people and said, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
+\v 11 So Abimelek solemnly charged all the people and said, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
 
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 \v 15 Now all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up by filling them with earth.
 \v 16 Abimelek said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."
-\v 17 So Isaac departed from there and settled in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there.
+\v 17 So Isaac departed from there and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there.
 
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 \v 19 When Isaac's servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
-\v 20 The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac called that well "Esek," because they had quarreled with him.
+\v 20 The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac named that well "Esek," because they had quarreled with him.
 
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 \v 21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too, so he gave it the name of "Sitnah."
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 \v 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.
-\v 9 Go to the flock, and bring me two good young goats; and I will make delicious food from them for your father, just like he loves.
+\v 9 Go to the flock, and bring me two good kids; and I will make delicious food from them for your father, just like he loves.
 \v 10 You will take it to your father, so that he may eat it, so that he may bless you before his death."
 
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 \v 15 Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau, her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
-\v 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
+\v 16 She put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
 \v 17 She put the delicious food and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
 
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 \v 40 By your sword you will live, and you will serve your brother.
-\q But when you rebel, you will shake his yoke from off your neck."
+\q But when you rebel, you will break his yoke off of your neck."
 
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-\v 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are near; after that I will kill my brother Jacob."
+\v 41 Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are near; after that I will kill my brother Jacob."
 \v 42 The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "See, your brother Esau is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.
 
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-\v 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes one of the daughters of Heth as a wife, like these women, some of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
+\v 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I abhor life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes one of the daughters of Heth as a wife, like these women, some of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
 
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 \v 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take a wife from there, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
 
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-\v 3 May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.
-\v 4 May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your descendants after you, that you may inherit the land where you have been living, which God gave to Abraham."
+\v 3 May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a community of peoples.
+\v 4 May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your descendants after you, that you may inherit the land where you have been sojourning, which God gave to Abraham."
 
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 \v 23 In the evening, Laban took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, who went to her.
 \v 24 Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah, to be her servant.
-\v 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?"
+\v 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
 
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-\v 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was not loved, so he opened her womb, but Rachel was childless.
+\v 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was not loved, so he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
 \v 32 Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked upon my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."
 
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-\v 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
-\v 2 Jacob's anger burned against Rachel. He said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
+\v 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel was jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
+\v 2 Jacob's anger burned against Rachel. He said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
 
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 \v 18 He drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all his property, including the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram. Then he set out to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
 
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-\v 19 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.
-\v 20 Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was leaving.
+\v 19 When Laban had gone to shear his flock, Rachel stole her father's household gods.
+\v 20 Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was fleeing.
 \v 21 So he fled with all that he had and quickly passed over the River, and headed toward the hill country of Gilead.
 
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 \v 25 Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country. Laban also camped with his relatives in the hill country of Gilead. \f + \ft Some modern translations have \fqa Laban also camped in the hill country of Gilead \fqa* . \f*
 
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-\v 26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you deceived me and carried away my daughters like prisoners of war?
+\v 26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you deceived me and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
 \v 27 Why did you flee secretly and trick me and did not tell me? I would have sent you away with celebration and with songs, with tambourine and with harps.
-\v 28 You did not allow me to kiss my grandsons and my daughters good bye. Now you have done foolishly.
+\v 28 You did not allow me to kiss my grandsons and my daughters good bye. Now you have acted foolishly.
 
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 \v 41 These twenty years I have been in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock. You have changed my wages ten times.
-\v 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my oppression and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night."
+\v 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and my toil, and he rebuked you last night."
 
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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."
 \v 7 Then Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, and also the flocks, the herds, and the camels.
-\v 8 He said, "If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape."
+\v 8 He said, "If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, then the camp that remains will escape."
 
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 \v 23 In this way he sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.
 
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-\v 24 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
+\v 24 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until dawn.
 \v 25 When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob's hip. Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.
 \v 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
 
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 \v 23 Will not their livestock and their property—all their animals be ours? So let us agree with them, and they will live among us."
 
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-\v 24 All the men of the city listened to Hamor and Shechem, his son. Every male was circumcised.
+\v 24 All who went out to the gates of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem, his son. All males were circumcised, all who went out to the gates of his city.
 \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 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.
-\v 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and everything in the city and in the surrounding fields with
-\v 29 all their wealth. All their children and their wives, they captured. They even took everything that was in the houses.
+\v 27 The other sons of Jacob came to the dead bodies and plundered the city, because the people had defiled their sister.
+\v 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.
+\v 29 They captured all their wealth, all their children, and their wives. They even plundered everything that was in the houses.
 
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 \v 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, to make me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. If they gather themselves together against me and attack me, then I will be destroyed, I and my household."
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-\v 7 He did this because their possessions were too many for them to stay together. The land where they had settled could not support them because of their livestock.
+\v 7 He did this because their possessions were too many for them to stay together. The land where they were sojourning could not support them because of their livestock.
 \v 8 So Esau, also known as Edom, settled in the hill country of Seir.
 
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-\v 1 Jacob lived in the land where his father was staying, in the land of Canaan.
+\v 1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
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-\v 2 These were the events concerning Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.
+\v 2 This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.
 
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 \v 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was the son of his old age. He made him a beautifully decorated garment.
-\v 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. They hated him and would not speak kindly to him.
+\v 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. They hated him and would not speak peaceably to him.
 
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 \v 18 They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them, they plotted against him to kill him.
-\v 19 His brothers said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is approaching.
+\v 19 His brothers said to one another, "Look, this master of dreams is approaching.
 \v 20 Come now, therefore, let us kill him and cast him into one of the pits. We will say, 'A wild animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
 
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 \v 2 He met there a daughter of a Canaanite man whose name was Shua. He took her and went to her.
 
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-\v 3 She became pregnant and had a son. He was named Er.
-\v 4 She became pregnant again and had a son. She called his name Onan.
+\v 3 She conceived and had a son. He was named Er.
+\v 4 She conceived again and had a son. She called his name Onan.
 \v 5 She again had a son and called his name Shelah. It was at Kezib where she gave birth to him.
 
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 \v 8 Judah said to Onan, "Go to your brother's wife. Do the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother."
-\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his. Whenever he went to his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
+\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his. Whenever he went to his brother's wife, he wasted it on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
 \v 10 What he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him also.
 
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-\v 12 After a long time, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
+\v 12 After a long time, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted and went up to the shearers of his sheep at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
 \v 13 Tamar was told, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
 \v 14 She took off the clothing of her widowhood and covered herself with her veil and wrapped herself. She sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up but she had not been given to him as a wife.
 
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-\v 18 He said, "What pledge can I give you?" She replied, "Your seal and cord, and the staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her and he went to her, and she became pregnant by him.
+\v 18 He said, "What pledge can I give you?" She replied, "Your seal and cord, and the staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her and he went to her, and she conceived by him.
 
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 \v 5 Both of them dreamed a dream—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt who were confined in the prison—each man had his own dream in the same night, and each dream had its own interpretation.
 
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-\v 6 Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them. Behold, they were sad.
+\v 6 Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them. Behold, they were upset.
 \v 7 He asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
 \v 8 They said to him, "We have both dreamed a dream and no one can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me, please."
 
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-\v 9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I am thinking about my offenses.
+\v 9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I have remembered my sins today.
 \v 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, the chief baker and me.
 \v 11 We dreamed a dream the same night, he and I. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
 
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 \v 6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
 
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-\v 7 Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke harshly with them. He said to them, "Where have you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
+\v 7 Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke severely with them. He said to them, "Where have you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
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 \v 32 The servants served Joseph by himself and the brothers by themselves. The Egyptians there ate with him by themselves because the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is detestable to the Egyptians.
 \v 33 The brothers sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. The men were astonished together.
-\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.
+\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 freely and were merry with him.
 
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 \v 29 Now if you also take this one 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 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life,
 \v 31 it will come about, when he sees the boy is not with us, he will die. 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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 \v 12 The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
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-\v 13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Lob, and Shimron;
+\v 13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron;
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 \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, along with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
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-\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.
+\v 26 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob, who were his direct 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 people of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
 
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 \v 7 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and presented him to Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
 \v 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How long have you lived?"
-\v 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my travels are 130. The years of my life have been few and painful. They have not been as long as those of my ancestors."
+\v 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are 130. The years of my life have been few and painful. They have not been as long as the days of my ancestors' sojourning."
 \v 10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.
 
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-\v 11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them a territory in the land of Egypt, the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
-\v 12 Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their dependents.
+\v 11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
+\v 12 Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little ones.
 
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 \v 23 Then Joseph said to the people, "See, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you will plant the land.
-\v 24 At the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field and for food for your households and your children."
+\v 24 At the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field and for food for your households and your little ones."
 
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 \v 5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, they are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
-\v 6 The children you have after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.
+\v 6 The offspring who are born after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.
 \v 7 But as for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).
 
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 \q Listen to Israel, your father.
 
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 \v 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
 \q and the beginning of my strength,
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 \q Then you defiled it; you went up to my couch.
 
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 \v 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers.
 \q Weapons of violence are their swords.
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 \v 6 O my soul, do not come into their council;
-\q do not join in their meetings,
+\q O my glory, do not join in their meetings,
 \q for my heart has too much honor for that.
 \q For in their anger they killed men.
 \q It was for pleasure that they hamstrung oxen.
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 \v 7 May their anger be cursed,
-\q for it was fierce—and their fury, for it was cruel.
+\q for it was fierce—and their fury, for it was severe.
 \q I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
 
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 \v 8 Judah, your brothers will praise you.
 \q Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
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 \q and his teeth as white as milk.
 
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 \v 13 Zebulun will live by the shore of the sea.
 \q He will be a harbor for ships,
 \q and his border will extend to Sidon.
 
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 \v 14 Issachar is a strong donkey,
 \q lying down between the sheepfolds.
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 \v 15 He sees a good resting place and the pleasant land.
 \q He will bend his shoulder to the burden
-\q and become a servant for the task.
+\q and become a servant for forced labor.
 
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 \v 16 Dan will judge his people
 \q as one of the tribes of Israel.
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 \v 18 I wait for your salvation, Yahweh.
 
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 \v 19 Gad—raiders will attack him,
 \q but he will attack them at their heels.
-\q2
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 \v 20 Asher's food will be rich,
 \q and he will provide royal delicacies.
-\q2
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+\q
 \v 21 Naphtali is a doe let loose;
 \q he will have beautiful fawns.
 
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+\p
 \q
 \v 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough,
 \q a fruitful bough near a spring,
 \q whose branches climb over the wall.
 \q
-\v 23 The archers will attack him
-\q and shoot at him and harass him.
+\v 23 The archers will attack him bitterly
+\q and shoot at him with hostility.
 
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 \q even upon the crown of the head of the prince of his brothers.
 
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 \v 27 Benjamin is a hungry wolf.
 \q In the morning he will devour the prey,
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 \v 6 Pharaoh answered, "Go and bury your father, as he made you swear."
 
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-\v 7 Joseph went up to bury his father. All the officials of Pharaoh went with him—the elders of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
+\v 7 Joseph went up to bury his father. All the servants of Pharaoh went with him—the elders of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
 \v 8 with all Joseph's household and his brothers, and his father's household. But their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
 \v 9 Chariots and horsemen also went with him. It was a very large group of people.
 
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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.
+\v 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why the name of 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.
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-\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 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph continues to be angry 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 6 Then Joseph, all his brothers, and all that generation died.
-\v 7 The Israelites were fruitful, increased greatly in numbers, and became very strong; the land was filled with them.
+\v 7 But the people of Israel were fruitful, increased in numbers, became great, and became very, very mighty; the land was filled with them.
 
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 \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, the Israelites are more numerous and stronger than we are.
+\v 9 He said to his people, "Look, the people of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we are.
 \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.
-\v 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites increased in numbers and spread. So the Egyptians began to dread the Israelites.
+\v 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites increased in numbers and spread. So the Egyptians began to dread the people of Israel.
 
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-\v 13 The Egyptians made the Israelites work rigorously.
-\v 14 They made their lives bitter with hard service with mortar and brick, and with all kinds of work in the fields. All their required work was hard.
+\v 13 The Egyptians severely forced the people of Israel to serve.
+\v 14 They made their lives bitter with hard service with mortar and brick, and with all kinds of work in the fields. All their required work was severe.
 
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 \v 19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are vigorous and have finished giving birth before a midwife comes to them."
 
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-\v 20 God protected these midwives. The people increased in numbers and became very strong.
+\v 20 God protected these midwives. The people increased in numbers and became very mighty.
 \v 21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
 \v 22 Pharaoh ordered all his people, "You must throw every son that is born into the river, but every daughter you will let live."
 
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-\v 11 When Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard work. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own people.
+\v 11 When Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labors. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own people.
 \v 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one there, he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
 
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-\v 23 A long time later, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out for help, and their pleas went up to God because of their bondage.
+\v 23 A long time later, the king of Egypt died. The people of Israel groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out for help, and their pleas went up to God because of their bondage.
 \v 24 When God heard their groaning, God called to mind his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
-\v 25 God saw the Israelites, and he understood their situation.
+\v 25 God saw the people of Israel, and he understood their situation.
 
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@@ -109,35 +109,35 @@
 
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 \v 4 When Yahweh saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." Moses said, "Here I am."
-\v 5 God said, "Do not come any closer! Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is ground that is set apart to me."
+\v 5 God said, "Do not come any closer! Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is ground that is set apart to me."
 \v 6 He added, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
 
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-\v 7 Yahweh said, "I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their shouts because of their taskmasters, for I know about their suffering.
+\v 7 Yahweh said, "I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their outcry because of their taskmasters, for I know about their suffering.
 \v 8 I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
 
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-\v 9 Now the shouts of the people of Israel have come to me. Moreover, I have seen the oppression caused by the Egyptians.
-\v 10 Now then, I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."
+\v 9 Now the outcry of the people of Israel has come to me. Moreover, I have seen the way the Egyptians have been oppressing them.
+\v 10 Now then, I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people, the people of Israel, out of Egypt."
 
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-\v 11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites from Egypt?"
+\v 11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the people of Israel from Egypt?"
 \v 12 God replied, "I will certainly be with you. This will be a sign to you that I have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship me on this mountain."
 
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-\v 13 Moses said to God, "When I go to the Israelites and tell them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and when they say to me, 'What is his name?' what should I say to them?"
-\v 14 God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM." God said, "You must say to the Israelites, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
-\v 15 God also said to Moses, "You must say to the Israelites, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is how I will be kept in mind for all generations.'
+\v 13 Moses said to God, "When I go to the people of Israel and tell them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and when they say to me, 'What is his name?' what should I say to them?"
+\v 14 God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM." God said, "You must say to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
+\v 15 God also said to Moses, "You must say to the people of Israel, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is how I will be kept in mind for all generations.'
 
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 \v 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together. Say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me and said, "I have indeed observed you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
-\v 17 I have promised to bring you up from the oppression in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'
+\v 17 I have promised to bring you up from the affliction in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'
 \v 18 They will listen to you. You and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt, and you must tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, in order that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
 
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-\v 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, unless his hand is forced.
+\v 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go except under a mighty hand.
 \v 20 I will reach out with my hand and attack the Egyptians with all the miracles that I will do among them. After that, he will let you go.
 \v 21 I will grant this people favor from the Egyptians, so when you leave, you will not go empty-handed.
 \v 22 Every woman will ask for silver and gold jewels and for clothing from her Egyptian neighbors and any women staying in her neighbors' houses. You will put them on your sons and daughters. In this way you will plunder the Egyptians."
@@ -195,9 +195,9 @@
 \v 28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh that he had sent him to say and about all the signs of Yahweh's power that he had commanded him to do.
 
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-\v 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the Israelites.
+\v 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
 \v 30 Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses. He also displayed the signs of Yahweh's power in the sight of the people.
-\v 31 The people believed. When they heard that Yahweh had observed the Israelites and that he had seen their oppression, then they bowed down and worshiped him.
+\v 31 The people believed. When they heard that Yahweh had observed the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed down and worshiped him.
 
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 \v 3 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God so that he does not attack us with plague or with the sword."
-\v 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people from their work? Go back to your work."
-\v 5 He also said, "There are now many people in our land, and you are making them stop their work."
+\v 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people from their work? Go back to your labors."
+\v 5 Pharaoh also said, "There are now many people in our land, and you are making them stop their labors."
 
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-\v 6 On that same day, Pharaoh gave a command to the people's taskmasters and foremen. He said,
+\v 6 On that same day, Pharaoh gave a command to the people's taskmasters and overseers. He said,
 \v 7 "Unlike before, you must no longer give the people straw to make bricks. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
 \v 8 However, you must still demand from them the same number of bricks as they made before. Do not accept any fewer, because they are lazy. That is why they are calling out and saying, 'Allow us to go and sacrifice to our God.'
 \v 9 Increase the workload for the men so that they keep at it and pay no more attention to deceptive words."
 
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-\v 10 So the people's taskmasters and foremen went out and informed the people. They said, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will no longer give you any straw.
+\v 10 So the people's taskmasters and overseers went out and informed the people. They said, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will no longer give you any straw.
 \v 11 You yourselves must go and get straw wherever you can find it, but your workload will not be reduced.'"
 
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 \v 12 So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
 \v 13 The taskmasters kept urging them and saying, "Finish your work, just as when straw was given to you."
-\v 14 Pharaoh's taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, "Why have you not produced all the bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?"
+\v 14 Pharaoh's taskmasters beat the overseers, who were of the people of Israel, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, "Why have you not produced all the bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?"
 
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-\v 15 So the Israelite foremen came to Pharaoh and cried out to him. They said, "Why are you treating your servants this way?
+\v 15 So the overseers, who were of the people of Israel, came to Pharaoh and cried out to him. They said, "Why are you treating your servants this way?
 \v 16 No straw is being given to your servants anymore, but they are still telling us, 'Make bricks!' We, your servants, are even beaten now, but it is the fault of your own people."
 \v 17 But Pharaoh said, "You are lazy! You are lazy! You say, 'Allow us to go sacrifice to Yahweh.'
 \v 18 So now go back to work. No more straw will be given to you, but you must still make the same number of bricks."
 
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-\v 19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, "You must not reduce the daily number of bricks."
+\v 19 The overseers, who were of the people of Israel, saw that they were in trouble when they were told, "You must not reduce the daily number of bricks."
 \v 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were standing outside the palace, as they went away from Pharaoh.
 \v 21 They said to Moses and Aaron, "May Yahweh look at you and punish you, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants. You have put a sword in their hand to kill us."
 
@@ -252,23 +252,23 @@
 \p
 \v 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am Yahweh.
 \v 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty; but by my name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.
-\v 4 I also established my covenant with them, in order to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as non-citizens, the land in which they wandered about.
-\v 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have called to mind my covenant.
+\v 4 I also established my covenant with them, in order to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.
+\v 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have called to mind my covenant.
 
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-\v 6 Therefore, say to the Israelites, 'I am Yahweh. I will bring you out from slavery under the Egyptians, and I will free you from their power. I will rescue you with a display of my power, and with mighty acts of judgment.
-\v 7 I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from slavery under the Egyptians.
+\v 6 Therefore, say to the people of Israel, 'I am Yahweh. I will bring you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians, and I will free you from their power. I will rescue you with a display of my power, and with mighty acts of judgment.
+\v 7 I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians.
 
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 \v 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.'"
-\v 9 When Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to him because of their discouragement about their harsh slavery.
+\v 9 When Moses told this to the people of Israel, they would not listen to him because of their discouragement about their severe slavery.
 
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 \v 10 Then Yahweh said to Moses, saying,
 \v 11 "Go tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the people of Israel go from his land."
-\v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, "If the Israelites have not listened to me, why will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am not good at speaking?"
-\v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He gave them a command for the Israelites and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
+\v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, "If the people of Israel have not listened to me, why will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am not good at speaking?"
+\v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He gave them a command for the people of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
 
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-\v 16 Here are listed the names of the sons of Levi, together with their descendants. They were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived until he was 137 years old.
-\v 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their families.
+\v 16 Here are listed the names of the sons of Levi, according to their genealogies. They were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived until he was 137 years old.
+\v 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, according to their clans.
 \v 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived until he was 133 years old.
 \v 19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These became the clan ancestors of the Levites, together with their descendants.
 
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 \v 20 Amram married Jochebed, his father's sister. She bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years and then died.
-\v 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
+\v 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zikri.
 \v 22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
 
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-\v 26 These two men were the Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the Israelites from the land of Egypt, by their groups of fighting men."
-\v 27 Aaron and Moses spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to allow them bring out the Israelites from Egypt. These were the same Moses and Aaron.
+\v 26 These two men were the Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt, by their hosts."
+\v 27 Aaron and Moses spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to allow them bring out the people of Israel from Egypt. These were the same Moses and Aaron.
 
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 \v 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will display many signs of my power, many wonders, in the land of Egypt.
-\v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will put my hand on Egypt and bring out my groups of fighting men, my people, the people of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of punishment.
-\v 5 The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I reach out with my hand on Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them."
+\v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will put my hand on Egypt and bring out my hosts, my people, the people of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
+\v 5 The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I reach out with my hand on Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them."
 
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 \v 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as Yahweh commanded them.
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 \v 10 Then Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and they did just as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.
 
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-\v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for his wise men and sorcerers. They did the same thing by their magic.
+\v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for his Egyptian wise men and sorcerers. They did the same thing by their magic.
 \v 12 Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their snakes.
 \v 13 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen, just as Yahweh had foretold.
 
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 \v 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to Yahweh for him to take away the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to him."
-\v 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "You can have the privilege of telling me when I should pray for you, your servants, and your people, so that the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and stay only in the river."
+\v 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "Honor yourself over me. When should I pray for you, your servants, and your people, so that the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and stay only in the river?"
 
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 \v 10 Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Let it be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh, our God.
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 \v 21 But if you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you, your servants, and your people, and into your houses. The Egyptians' houses will be full of swarms of flies, and even the ground on which they stand will be full of flies.
 
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-\v 22 But on that day I will treat the land of Goshen differently, the land in which my people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there. This will happen so that you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of this land.
+\v 22 But on that day I will set the land of Goshen apart, the land in which my people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there. This will happen so that you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of this land.
 \v 23 I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign of my power will take place tomorrow."'"
 \v 24 Yahweh did so, and thick swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's house and into his servants' houses. Throughout the whole land of Egypt, the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.
 
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 \v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: "Let my people go so that they may worship me."
 \v 2 But if you refuse to let them go, if you still keep them back,
 \v 3 then Yahweh's hand will bring a terrible plague on your livestock that are in the field—the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
-\v 4 But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.
+\v 4 But Yahweh will set the livestock of Israel apart from the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal that belongs to the people of Israel will die.
 
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 \v 5 Yahweh has fixed a time; he has said, "It is tomorrow that I will do this thing in the land."'"
-\v 6 Yahweh did this the next day: All the cattle of Egypt died, but none of the Israelites' animals died, not one animal.
-\v 7 Pharaoh investigated, and, behold, not even one animal of the Israelites died. But his heart was stubborn, so he did not let the people go.
+\v 6 Yahweh did this the next day: All the cattle of Egypt died, but none of the people of Israel' animals died, not one animal.
+\v 7 Pharaoh investigated, and, behold, not even one livestock of the people of Israel died. But his heart was stubborn, so he did not let the people go.
 
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 \v 14 For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, on your servants and your people. I will do this so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
 
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-\v 15 By now I could have reached out with my hand and attacked you and your people with disease, and you would have been eradicated from the land.
+\v 15 By now I could have reached out with my hand and attacked you and your people with plague, and you would have been eradicated from the land.
 \v 16 But it was for this reason I allowed you to survive: In order to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed throughout all the earth.
 \v 17 You are still lifting yourself up against my people by not letting them go.
 
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-\v 18 Listen! Tomorrow about this time I will bring a very strong hail storm, such as has not been seen in Egypt since the day it was begun until now.
+\v 18 Listen! Tomorrow about this time I will bring a very strong hail storm, such as has not been seen in Egypt since the day it was founded until now.
 \v 19 Now then, send men and gather your livestock and everything you have in the fields to a safe place. Every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home—the hail will come down on them, and they will die."'"
 
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-\v 20 Then those of Pharaoh's servants who believed in Yahweh's message hurried to bring their slaves and livestock into the houses.
+\v 20 Then those of Pharaoh's servants who feared Yahweh's message hurried to bring their slaves and livestock into the houses.
 \v 21 But those who did not take Yahweh's message seriously left their slaves and livestock in the fields.
 
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 \v 25 Throughout all the land of Egypt, the hail struck everything in the fields, both people and animals. It struck every plant in the fields and broke every tree.
-\v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.
+\v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived, was there no hail.
 
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 \v 6 They will fill your houses, those of all your servants, and those of all the Egyptians—something neither your father nor your grandfather ever saw, nothing ever seen since the day that they were on the earth to this present day.'" Then Moses left and went out from Pharaoh.
 
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-\v 7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a menace to us? Let the Israelites go so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
+\v 7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people of Israel go so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
 \v 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, who said to them, "Go worship Yahweh your God. But what people will go?"
 
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 \v 19 Yahweh brought a very strong west wind that picked up the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
-\v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go.
+\v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh did not let the people of Israel go.
 
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 \v 21 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness that may be felt."
 \v 22 Moses reached out with his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
-\v 23 No one could see anyone else; no one left his home for three days. However, all the Israelites had light in the place where they lived.
+\v 23 No one could see anyone else; no one left his home for three days. However, all the people of Israel had light in the place where they lived.
 
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-\v 24 Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go worship Yahweh. Even your families may go with you, but your flocks and herds must remain behind."
+\v 24 Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go worship Yahweh. Even your little ones may go with you, but your flocks and herds must remain behind."
 \v 25 But Moses said, "Allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings so that we may present them to Yahweh our God.
 \v 26 Our cattle must also go with us; not a hoof of them may be left behind, for we must take them to worship Yahweh our God. For we do not know with what we must worship Yahweh until we arrive there."
 
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 \v 5 All the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill grinding it, and to all the firstborn of the livestock.
 
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-\v 6 Then there will be a great wailing throughout all the land of Egypt, such as has never been nor ever will be again.
-\v 7 But not even a dog will bark against any of the people of Israel, against either man or animal. In this way you will know that I am treating the Egyptians and the Israelites differently.'
+\v 6 Then there will be a great outcry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as has never been nor ever will be again.
+\v 7 But not even a dog will bark against any of the people of Israel, against either man or animal. In this way you will know that I am making a distinction between the Egyptians and the people of Israel.'
 \v 8 All these servants of yours, Pharaoh, will come down to me and bow down to me. They will say, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that I will go out." Then he went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
 
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 \v 5 Your lamb or young goat must be without blemish, a one-year-old male. You may take one of the sheep or goats.
-\v 6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of that month. Then the whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight.
+\v 6 You must keep it safe until the fourteenth day of that month. Then the whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight.
 \v 7 You must take some of the blood and put it on the two side doorposts and on the tops of the doorframes of the houses in which you will eat the meat.
 \v 8 You must eat the meat that night, after first roasting it over a fire. Eat it with bread made without yeast, along with bitter herbs.
 
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 \v 9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water. Instead, roast it over fire with its head, legs and inner parts.
 \v 10 You must not let any of it be left over until morning. You must burn whatever is left over in the morning.
-\v 11 This is how you must eat it: with your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly. It is Yahweh's Passover.
+\v 11 This is how you must eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly. It is Yahweh's Passover.
 
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-\v 12 Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and attack all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will bring punishment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
+\v 12 Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and strike down all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will do acts of judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
 \v 13 The blood will be a sign on your houses for my coming to you. When I see the blood, I will pass over you when I attack the land of Egypt. This plague will not come on you and destroy you.
 \v 14 This day will become a memorial day for you, which you must observe as a festival to Yahweh; for your generations—a statute that you must keep as a festival forever.
 
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 \v 16 On the first day there will be an assembly that is set apart to me, and on the seventh day there will be another such gathering. No work will be done on these days, except the cooking for everyone to eat. That must be the only work that may be done by you.
 
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-\v 17 You must observe this Festival of Unleavened Bread because it was on this day that I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. So you must observe this day throughout your people's generations as a statute forever.
+\v 17 You must observe this Festival of Unleavened Bread because it was on this day that I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. So you must observe this day throughout your people's generations as a statute forever.
 \v 18 You must eat unleavened bread from twilight of the fourteenth day in the first month of the year until twilight of the twenty-first day of the month.
 
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 \v 26 When your children ask you, 'What does this act of worship mean?'
-\v 27 then you must say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, because Yahweh passed over the Israelites' houses in Egypt when he attacked the Egyptians. He set our households free.'" Then the people bowed down and worshiped Yahweh.
-\v 28 The Israelites went and did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
+\v 27 then you must say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, because Yahweh passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt when he attacked the Egyptians. He set our households free.'" Then the people bowed down and worshiped Yahweh.
+\v 28 The people of Israel went and did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
 
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-\v 29 It happened at midnight that Yahweh attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the person in prison and all the firstborn of the livestock.
-\v 30 Pharaoh got up in the night—he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians. There was loud lamenting in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
+\v 29 It happened at midnight that Yahweh attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the person in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.
+\v 30 Pharaoh got up in the night—he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians. There was a loud outcry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
 
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-\v 31 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, you and the Israelites. Go, worship Yahweh, as you have said you wanted to do.
+\v 31 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, you and the people of Israel. Go, worship Yahweh, as you have said you wanted to do.
 \v 32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and also bless me."
 \v 33 The Egyptians were in a great hurry to send them out of the land, for they said, "We will all die."
 
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-\v 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. They numbered about 600,000 men on foot, in addition to the women and children.
+\v 37 The people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. They numbered about 600,000 men on foot, in addition to the little ones.
 \v 38 A mixed multitude also went with them, together with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
 \v 39 They baked bread without yeast in the dough that they brought from Egypt. It was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay to prepare food.
-\v 40 The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
+\v 40 The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
 
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 \v 41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all of Yahweh's armed groups went out from the land of Egypt.
-\v 42 This was a night to stay awake, for Yahweh to bring them out from the land of Egypt. This was Yahweh's night to be observed by all the Israelites throughout their people's generations.
+\v 42 This was a night to stay awake, for Yahweh to bring them out from the land of Egypt. This was Yahweh's night to be observed by all the people of Israel throughout their people's generations.
 
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 \v 49 This same law will apply to both the native born and to the foreigner who lives among you."
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-\v 50 So all the Israelites did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
+\v 50 So all the people of Israel did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
 \v 51 It came about that very day that Yahweh brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armed groups.
 
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 \v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 2 "Set apart to me every firstborn male—because whatever is the first to open the womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether man or animal."
+\v 2 "Set apart to me every firstborn male, the first issue of every womb among the people of Israel, whether man or animal. He is mine."
 
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 \v 5 When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and the Jebusites, the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—then you must observe this act of worship in this month.
 
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-\v 6 For seven days you must eat bread without yeast; on the seventh day there will be a feast to honor Yahweh.
+\v 6 For seven days you must eat bread without yeast; on the seventh day there will be a festival to honor Yahweh.
 \v 7 Bread without yeast must be eaten throughout the seven days; no bread with yeast may be seen among you. No yeast may be seen with you within any of your borders.
 
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 \v 14 When your son asks you later, 'What does this mean?' then you are to tell him, 'It was by a strong hand that Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of slavery.
-\v 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed every the firstborn in Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animal. That is why I sacrifice to Yahweh all the males that first open the womb but all my firstborn sons I redeem.'
+\v 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed every the firstborn in Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animal. That is why I sacrifice to Yahweh all the first male issue of the womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.'
 \v 16 This will become a reminder on your hands, and a reminder on your forehead, for it was by a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt."
 
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 \v 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that land was nearby. For God said, "Perhaps the people will change their minds when they experience war and will then return to Egypt."
-\v 18 So God led the people around through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds. The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt armed for battle.
+\v 18 So God led the people around through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds. The people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt armed for battle.
 
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 \v 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear and said, "God will surely rescue you, and you must carry away my bones with you."
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 \v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 2 "Say to the Israelites that they should turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You are to camp by the sea opposite Pi Hahiroth.
-\v 3 Pharaoh will say about the Israelites, 'They are wandering in the land. The wilderness has closed in on them.'
+\v 2 "Say to the people of Israel that they should turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You are to camp by the sea opposite Pi Hahiroth.
+\v 3 Pharaoh will say about the people of Israel, 'They are wandering confused in the land. The wilderness has closed in on them.'
 
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 \v 4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them. I will get honor because of Pharaoh and all his army. The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." So the Israelites camped as they were instructed.
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 \v 6 Then Pharaoh got his chariots ready and took his army with him.
 \v 7 He took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers on all of them.
-\v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and the king pursued the Israelites. Now the Israelites had gone away in triumph.
+\v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and the king pursued the people of Israel. Now the people of Israel had gone away in triumph.
 \v 9 But the Egyptians pursued them, together with all his horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his army. They overtook the Israelites camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
 
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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 10 When Pharaoh came close, the people of Israel looked up and were surprised. The Egyptians were marching after them, and they were terrified. The people of Israel 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."
 
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 \v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you will only have to stand still."
 
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-\v 15 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Why are you, Moses, continuing to call out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
+\v 15 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Why are you, Moses, continuing to call out to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
 \v 16 Lift up your staff, reach out with your hand over the sea and divide it in two, so that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.
 \v 17 Be aware that I will harden the Egyptians' hearts so they will go after them. I will get honor because of Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.
 \v 18 Then the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
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 \v 21 Moses reached out with his hand over the sea. Yahweh drove the sea back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea into dry land. In this way the waters were divided.
-\v 22 The Israelites went into the middle of the sea on dry ground. The waters formed a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
+\v 22 The people of Israel went into the middle of the sea on dry ground. The waters formed a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
 
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 \v 23 The Egyptians pursued them. They went after them into the middle of the sea—all Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and horsemen.
-\v 24 But in the early morning hours, Yahweh looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud. He caused panic among the Egyptians.
+\v 24 But at the morning watch, Yahweh looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud. He threw the Egyptians into confusion.
 \v 25 Their chariot wheels were clogged, and the horsemen drove with difficulty. So the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for Yahweh is fighting for them against us."
 
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 \v 28 The waters came back and covered Pharaoh's chariots, horsemen, and his entire army that had followed the chariots into the sea. No one survived.
 
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-\v 29 However, the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. The waters were a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
+\v 29 However, the people of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. The waters were a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
 \v 30 So Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw dead Egyptians on the seashore.
-\v 31 When Israel saw the great power that Yahweh used against the Egyptians, the people honored Yahweh, and they trusted in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
+\v 31 When Israel saw the great power that Yahweh used against the Egyptians, the people feared Yahweh, and they trusted Yahweh and his servant Moses.
 
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-\v 19 For Pharaoh's horses went with his chariots and horsemen into the sea. Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them. But the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
+\v 19 For Pharaoh's horses went with his chariots and horsemen into the sea. Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them. But the people of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
 \v 20 Miriam the prophetess, sister of Aaron, picked up a tambourine, and all the women went out with tambourines, dancing along with her.
 \v 21 Miriam sang to them:
 \q "Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
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 \v 22 Then Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of Reeds. They went out into the wilderness of Shur. They traveled for three days into the wilderness and found no water.
-\v 23 Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. So they called that place Marah.
+\v 23 Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. So they named that place Marah.
 
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 \v 24 So the people complained to Moses and said, "What can we drink?"
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-\v 1 The people journeyed on from Elim, and all the community of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
-\v 2 The whole community of Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
-\v 3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by Yahweh's hand in the land of Egypt when we were sitting by the pots of meat and were eating bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill our whole community with hunger."
+\v 1 The people journeyed on from Elim, and all the community of people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
+\v 2 The whole community of the people of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
+\v 3 The people of Israel said to them, "If only we had died by Yahweh's hand in the land of Egypt when we were sitting by the pots of meat and were eating bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill our whole community with hunger."
 
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-\v 1 The whole community of the Israelites journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, following Yahweh's instructions. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
+\v 1 The whole community of the people of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, following Yahweh's instructions. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
 \v 2 So the people blamed Moses for their situation and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
 \v 3 The people were very thirsty, and they complained against Moses. They said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"
 
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 \v 4 Then Moses cried out to Yahweh, "What should I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me."
 \v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go on ahead of the people, and take with you some elders of Israel. Take with you the staff with which you struck the river, and go.
 \v 6 I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you will strike the rock. Water will come out of it for the people to drink." Then Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
-\v 7 He called that place Massah and Meribah because of the Israelites' complaining, and because they had tested the Lord by saying, "Is Yahweh among us or not?"
+\v 7 He named that place Massah and Meribah because the people of Israel were quarreling and because they had tested the Lord by saying, "Is Yahweh among us or not?"
 
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 \v 11 While Moses was holding his hands up, Israel was winning; when he let his hands rest, Amalek would begin to win.
 \v 12 When Moses's hands became heavy, Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him for him to sit on. At the same time, Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one person on one side of him, and the other person on the other side. So Moses's hands were held steady until the sun went down.
-\v 13 So Joshua defeated the people of Amalek with the sword.
+\v 13 So Joshua laid waste to Amalek and his people with the sword.
 
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 \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this in a book and read it in Joshua's hearing, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies."
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 \v 21 Furthermore, you must choose capable men from all the people, men who honor God, men of truth who hate unjust gain. You must put them over people, to be leaders in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and of tens.
 \v 22 They will judge the people in all routine cases, but the difficult cases they will bring to you. As for all the small cases, they can judge those themselves. In that way it will be easier for you, and they will carry the burden with you.
-\v 23 If you do this, and if God commands you to do so, then you will be able to endure, and the entire people will be able to go home satisfied."
+\v 23 If you do this, and if God commands you to do so, then you will be able to endure, and the entire people will be able to go home in peace."
 
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 \v 12 You must set boundaries all around the mountain for the people. Say to them, 'Be careful that you do not go up the mountain or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death.'
-\v 13 No one's hand must touch such a person. Instead, he must certainly be stoned or shot. Whether it is an animal or man, he must be put to death. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may come up to the foot of the mountain."
+\v 13 No one's hand must touch such a person. Instead, he must certainly be stoned or shot. Whatever it is, animal or man, shall not live. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may come up to the foot of the mountain."
 
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-\v 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunder and lightning bolts and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud trumpet. All the people in the camp trembled.
+\v 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunder and lightning bolts and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud ram's horn. All the people in the camp trembled.
 \v 17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
 \v 18 Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because Yahweh descended on it in fire and smoke. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
 
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-\v 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in a voice.
+\v 19 When the sound of the ram's horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in a voice.
 \v 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and he summoned Moses to the top. So Moses went up.
 \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people; otherwise they might break out to Yahweh to look, and many of them might perish.
 \v 22 Let the priests also who come near to me set themselves apart—prepare themselves for my coming—so that I do not break out against them."
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-\v 18 All the people saw the thundering and the lightning, and heard the voice of the trumpet, and saw the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.
+\v 18 All the people saw the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the ram's horn, and saw the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.
 \v 19 They said to Moses, "Speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die."
 \v 20 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, for God has come to test you so that the honor of him may be in you, and so that you do not sin."
 \v 21 So the people stood far off, and Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
 
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-\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you must tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
+\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you must tell the people of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
 \v 23 You will not make for yourselves other gods alongside me, gods of silver or gods of gold.
 
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 \v 7 If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she must not go free as the male servants do.
-\v 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be bought back. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people. He has no such right, since he has treated her deceitfully.
+\v 8 If she does not please her master, who has selected her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people. He has no such right, since he has treated her deceitfully.
 
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-\v 9 If her master designates her as a wife for his son, he must treat her the same as if she were his daughter.
+\v 9 If her master selects her as a wife for his son, he must treat her the same as if she were his daughter.
 \v 10 If he takes another wife for himself, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or her marital rights.
 \v 11 But if he does not provide these three things for her, then she can go free without paying any money.
 
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 \v 12 Whoever strikes a man so that he dies, that person must surely be put to death.
 \v 13 If the man did not do it with premeditation, but instead by accident, then I will fix a place to where he can flee.
-\v 14 If a man willfully attacks his neighbor and kills him according to a cunning plan, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.
+\v 14 If a man arrogantly attacks his neighbor and kills him cleverly, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.
 
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 \v 18 If men fight and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist, and that person does not die, but is confined to his bed;
-\v 19 then if he recovers and is able to walk about using his staff, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time; he must also pay for his complete recovery. But that man is not guilty of murder.
+\v 19 then if he recovers and is able to walk about using his staff, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time; he must also see that he is completely healed. But that man is not guilty of murder.
 
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 \v 20 If a man hits his male servant or his female servant with a staff, and if the servant dies as a result of the blow, then that man must surely be punished.
-\v 21 However, if the servant lives for a day or two, the master must not be punished, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
+\v 21 However, if the servant lives for a day or two, there is to be no vengeance, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
 
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-\v 22 If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined as the woman's husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
+\v 22 If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be forced to pay a fine as the woman's husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
 \v 23 But if there is serious injury, then you must give a life for a life,
 \v 24 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
 \v 25 a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, or a bruise for a bruise.
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 \v 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its flesh must not be eaten; but the ox's owner must be acquitted of guilt.
 \v 29 But if the ox had a habit of goring in the past, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and the ox has killed a man or a woman, that ox must be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death.
-\v 30 If a payment is required for his life, he must pay whatever he is required to pay.
+\v 30 If a ransom is required for his life, he must pay for the redemption of his life whatever he is required to pay.
 
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 \v 1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, then he must pay five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
-\v 2 If a thief is found breaking in, and if he is struck so that he dies, in that case no guilt for murder will attach to anyone on his account.
-\v 3 But if the sun has risen before he breaks in, guilt for murder will attach to the person who kills him.
+\v 2 If a thief is found breaking in, and if he is struck so that he dies, in that case no bloodguilt will attach to anyone on his account.
+\v 3 But if the sun has risen before he breaks in, bloodguilt will attach to the person who kills him.
 \p A thief must make restitution. If he has nothing, then he must be sold for his theft.
 \v 4 If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox, a donkey, or a sheep, he must pay back double.
 
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 \v 7 If a man gives money or goods to his neighbor for safe keeping, and if it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, that thief must pay double.
 \v 8 But if the thief is not found, then the owner of the house must come before the judges to see whether he has put his own hand on his neighbor's property.
-\v 9 For every dispute about something, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, "This belongs to me," the claim of both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
+\v 9 For every transgression, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, "This belongs to me," the claim of both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
 
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-\v 16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and if he lies with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.
+\v 16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and if he lies with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.
 \v 17 If her father completely refuses to give her to him, he must pay money equal to the bride wealth of virgins.
 
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 \v 22 You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
-\v 23 If you afflict them at all, and if they call out to me, I will surely hear their call.
+\v 23 If you afflict them at all, and if they call out to me, I will surely hear their outcry.
 \v 24 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows, and your children will become fatherless.
 
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 \v 25 If you lend money to any of my people among you who are poor, you must not be like a moneylender to him or charge him interest.
 \v 26 If you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun goes down,
-\v 27 for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. What else can he lie down in? When he calls out to me, I will hear him, for I am compassionate.
+\v 27 for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. What else can he lie down in? When he calls out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.
 
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-\v 1 You must not give a false report about anyone. Do not join with a wicked man to be a dishonest witness.
-\v 2 You must not follow a crowd to do evil, nor may you bear witness while siding with the crowd in order to pervert justice.
+\v 1 You must not give a false report about anyone. Do not join with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
+\v 2 You must not follow a crowd to do evil, and you must not bear witness in a dispute while siding with the crowd in order to pervert justice.
 \v 3 You must not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
 
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 \v 10 For six years you will sow seed on your land and gather in its produce.
-\v 11 But in the seventh year you will leave it unplowed and fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. What they leave, the wild animals will eat. You will do the same with your vineyards and olive orchards.
+\v 11 But in the seventh year you will let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. What they leave, the wild animals will eat. You will do the same with your vineyards and olive orchards.
 
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 \v 12 During six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Do this so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and so that your female slave's son and any foreigner may rest and be refreshed.
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 \v 26 No woman will be barren or will miscarry her young in your land. I will give you long lives.
-\v 27 I will send fear of myself on those into whose land you advance. I will kill all the people whom you meet. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in fright.
+\v 27 I will send my terror before you, and will throw into confusion all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
 \v 28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
-\v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become abandoned, and the wild animals would become too many for you.
+\v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become desolate, and the wild animals would become too many for you.
 
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 \v 30 Instead, I will drive them out little by little from before you until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
-\v 31 I will fix your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will give you victory over the land's inhabitants. You will drive them out before yourselves.
+\v 31 I will fix your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will give  the inhabitants of the land into your hands. You will drive them out before you.
 \v 32 You must not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
 \v 33 They must not live in your land, or they would make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, this will surely become a trap for you.'"
 
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 \v 4 Then Moses wrote down all of Yahweh's words. Early in the morning, Moses built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve stone pillars, so that the stones would represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
 
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-\v 5 He sent some Israelite young men to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice fellowship offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
+\v 5 He sent some young men from among the people of Israel to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
 \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 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders went up the mountain.
 \v 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.
-\v 11 God did not lay a hand on the Israelite leaders. They saw God, and they ate and drank.
+\v 11 God did not lay a hand on the leaders of the people of Israel. They saw God, and they ate and drank.
 
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 \v 16 Yahweh's glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.
-\v 17 The appearance of Yahweh's glory was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the Israelites.
+\v 17 The appearance of Yahweh's glory was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the people of Israel.
 \v 18 Moses entered the cloud and went up the mountain. He was up the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke 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.
+\v 2 "Tell the people of Israel 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 21 You must put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and you must put into the ark the covenant decrees that I am giving you.
 
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-\v 22 It is at the ark that I will meet with you. I will speak with you from my position above the atonement lid. It will be from between the two cherubim over the ark of the testimony that I will speak to you about all the commands I will give you for the Israelites.
+\v 22 It is at the ark that I will meet with you. I will speak with you from my position above the atonement lid. It will be from between the two cherubim over the ark of the covenant decrees that I will speak to you about all the commands I will give you for the people of Israel.
 
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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 testimony. 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 covenant decrees. 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 testimony, which is in the most holy place.
+\v 34 You must put the atonement lid on the ark of the covenant decrees, 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 36 You must make a hanging for the tent entrance. You must make it out of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.
-\v 37 For the hanging, you must make five pillars of acacia and cover them with gold. Their hooks must be of gold, and you must cast five bronze bases for them.
+\v 36 You must make a screen for the tent entrance. You must make it out of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.
+\v 37 For the screen you must make five pillars of acacia and cover them with gold. Their hooks must be of gold, and you must cast five bronze bases for them.
 
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 \v 14 The hangings for one side of the entrance must be fifteen cubits long. They must have three posts with three bases.
 \v 15 The other side must also have hangings fifteen cubits long. They must have their three posts and three bases.
-\v 16 The courtyard gate must be a curtain twenty cubits long. The curtain must be made of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. It must have four posts with four bases.
+\v 16 The courtyard gate must be a screen twenty cubits long. The curtain must be made of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. It must have four posts with four bases.
 
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 \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 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 statute throughout the generations of the people of Israel.
+\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of the covenant decrees, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting statute throughout the generations of the people of Israel.
 
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-\v 1 Call to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar—from among the Israelites so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 1 Call to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar—from among the people of Israel so that they may serve me as priests.
 \v 2 You must make for Aaron, your brother, garments that are set apart to me. These garments will be for his honor and splendor.
-\v 3 You must speak to all people who are wise in heart, those whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron's garments to set him apart to serve me as my priest.
+\v 3 You must speak to all people who are wise in heart, those whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him to serve me as my priest.
 
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 \v 4 The garments that they must make are a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of woven work, a turban, and a sash. They must make these garments that are set apart to me. They will be for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests.
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 \v 25 You must attach the other ends of the two braided chains to the two settings. Then you must attach those to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at its front.
-\v 26 You must make two rings of gold, and you must put them on the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border.
+\v 26 You must make two rings of gold, and you must put them on the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border of the ephod.
 
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 \v 27 You must make two more gold rings, and you must attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the front of the ephod, close to its seam above the finely-woven waistband of the ephod.
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 \v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, "Holy to Yahweh."
 \v 37 You must attach this plate by a blue cord to the front of the turban.
-\v 38 It must be on Aaron's forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites set apart to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
+\v 38 It must be on Aaron's forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the people of Israel set apart to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
 
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 \v 39 You must make the coat with fine linen, and you must make a turban of fine linen. You must also make a sash, the work of an embroiderer.
 
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-\v 40 For Aaron's sons you must make coats, sashes, and headbands for their honor and splendor.
-\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.
+\v 40 For Aaron's sons you must make tunics, sashes, and headbands for their honor and splendor.
+\v 41 You must clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. You must anoint them, ordain them, and consecrate them to me, so that they may serve me as priests.
 
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-\v 1 Now this is what you must do to set them apart to me so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
+\v 1 Now this is what you must do to set them apart to me so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull from the herd and two rams without blemish,
 \v 2 bread without yeast, and cakes without yeast mixed with oil. Also take wafers without yeast rubbed with oil. Make the wafers using fine wheat flour.
 
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 \v 7 Then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and in this way anoint him.
 
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-\v 8 You must bring his sons and put coats on them.
+\v 8 You must bring his sons and put tunics on them.
 \v 9 You must clothe Aaron and his sons with sashes and put headbands on them. The work of the priesthood will belong to them by permanent law. In this way you must consecrate Aaron and his sons for them to serve me.
 
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 \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 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 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—from the ram of consecration.
 \v 28 This will be a perpetual share for Aaron and his sons. It will be a contribution from the people of Israel to give to Yahweh from their peace offerings.
 
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-\v 31 You must take the ram for the installation of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.
+\v 31 You must take the ram of consecration 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 42 These must be regular burnt offerings throughout your generations, at the entrance to the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.
 
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-\v 43 That is where I will meet with the Israelites; the tent will be set apart for me by my glory.
+\v 43 That is where I will meet with the people of Israel; the tent will be set apart for me by my glory.
 \v 44 I will set apart the tent of meeting and the altar for these to belong to me alone. I will also set apart Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
 
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-\v 45 I will live among the Israelites and will be their God.
+\v 45 I will live among the people of Israel and will be their God.
 \v 46 They will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt so that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, their God.
 
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-\v 1 You must make an altar to burn incense. You must make it with acacia wood.
+\v 1 You must make an altar as a place for burning incense. You must make it with acacia wood.
 \v 2 Its length must be one cubit, and its width one cubit. It must be square, and its height must be two cubits. Its horns must be made as one piece with it.
 
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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 testimony. It will be before the atonement lid that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.
+\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.
 
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 \v 11 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 12 "When you take a census of the Israelites, then each person must give a ransom for his life to Yahweh. You must do this after you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
+\v 12 "When you take a census of the people of Israel, then each person must give a ransom for his life to Yahweh. You must do this after you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
 \v 13 Everyone who is counted in the census is to pay half a shekel of silver, according to the weight of the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is the same as twenty gerahs). This half shekel will be an offering to Yahweh.
 \v 14 Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and up, must give this offering to me.
 
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 \v 15 When the people give this offering to me to make atonement for their lives, the rich must not give more than the half shekel, and the poor must not give less.
-\v 16 You must receive this atonement money from the Israelites and you must allocate it to the work of the tent of meeting. It must be a reminder to the Israelites before me, to make atonement for your lives."
+\v 16 You must receive this atonement money from the people of Israel and you must allocate it to the work of the tent of meeting. It must be a reminder to the people of Israel before me, to make atonement for your lives."
 
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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 testimony,
+\v 26 You must anoint the tent of meeting with this oil, as well as the ark of the covenant decrees,
 \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 29 You must set them apart to me so that they may be holy to me. Anything that touches them will also be holy.
-\v 30 You must anoint Aaron and his sons and set them aside to me so that they may serve me as priests.
-\v 31 You must say to the Israelites, 'This must be an anointing oil that is set apart to Yahweh throughout your people's generations.
+\v 30 You must anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 31 You must say to the people of Israel, 'This must be an anointing oil that is set apart to Yahweh throughout your people's generations.
 
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 \v 32 It must not be applied to people's skin, nor must you make any oil like it with the same formula, because it is set apart to Yahweh. You must regard it in this manner.
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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 testimony, 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 beat it to powder. 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.
 
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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 Ahisamak, 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 testimony, the atonement lid on the ark, and all the furniture of the tent—
+\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 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 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses and said,
-\v 13 "Tell the Israelites: 'You must certainly keep Yahweh's Sabbath days, for these will be a sign between him and you throughout your people's generations so that you may know that he is Yahweh, who sets you apart for himself.
+\v 13 "Tell the people of Israel: 'You must certainly keep Yahweh's Sabbath days, for these will be a sign between him and you throughout your people's generations so that you may know that he is Yahweh, who sets you apart for himself.
 \v 14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it must be treated by you as holy, reserved for him. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death. Whoever works on the Sabbath, that person must surely be cut off from his people.
 \v 15 Work will be done for six days, but the seventh day is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy before Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
 
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-\v 16 Therefore the Israelites must keep the Sabbath. They must observe it throughout their people's generations as a lasting covenant.
-\v 17 The Sabbath will always be a sign between Yahweh and the Israelites, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
+\v 16 Therefore the people of Israel must keep the Sabbath. They must observe it throughout their people's generations as a lasting covenant.
+\v 17 The Sabbath will always be a sign between Yahweh and the people of Israel, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
 
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 \v 3 All the people took off the golden rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
-\v 4 He received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool and he made a cast idol in the shape of a calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
+\v 4 He received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and he made a cast metal figure in the shape of a calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
 
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 \v 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and made a proclamation; he said, "Tomorrow will be a festival in Yahweh's honor."
-\v 6 The people arose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought fellowship offerings. Then they sat down to eat and to drink, and then got up to carouse in wild celebration.
+\v 6 The people arose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought fellowship offerings. Then they sat down to eat and to drink, and then got up to play.
 
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 \v 7 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go quickly, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
-\v 8 They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast idol in the shape of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
+\v 8 They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast metal image in the shape of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
 
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 \v 9 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen this people. Look, they are a stiff-necked people.
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 \v 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of combat in the camp."
 \v 18 But Moses said,
-\q "It is not the sound of a victor,
-\q and not the sound of defeated people,
+\q "It is not the sound of a shout of victory,
+\q and it is not the sound of a cry of defeat,
 \q but the sound of singing that I hear."
 
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 \v 30 The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a very great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."
-\v 31 Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Oh, these people have committed a great sin and made themselves an idol of gold.
+\v 31 Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Alas! These people have committed a great sin and made themselves an idol of gold.
 \v 32 But now, please forgive their sin; but if you do not, blot me out of the book that you have written."
 
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 \v 4 When the people heard these troubling words, they mourned, and no one put on any jewelry.
-\v 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went among you for even one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your jewelry so that I may decide what to do with you.'"
-\v 6 So the Israelites wore no jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
+\v 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went among you for even one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your jewelry so that I may decide what to do with you.'"
+\v 6 So the people of Israel wore no jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
 
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 \v 14 Yahweh answered, "My own presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
 \v 15 Moses said to him, "If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
-\v 16 For otherwise, how will it be known that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Will it not only be if you go with us so that I and your people are different from all the other peoples that are on the surface of the earth?"
+\v 16 For otherwise, how will it be known that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Will it not only be if you go with us that I and your people will be distinct from all the other peoples that are on the surface of the earth?"
 
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 \v 18 You must keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you must eat bread without yeast for seven days at the fixed time in the month of Aviv, for it was in the month of Aviv you came out from Egypt.
 
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-\v 19 All the firstborn are mine, even every male firstborn of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
+\v 19 The first issue of every womb is mine, even every male firstborn of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
 \v 20 You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, but if you do not buy it back, then you must break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
 
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 \v 21 You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.
-\v 22 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year's end.
+\v 22 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year.
 
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 \v 23 Three times a year all your men must appear before Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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 \v 25 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with any yeast, nor may any meat from the sacrifice at the Festival of the Passover be left over to the morning.
-\v 26 You must bring the best of the firstfruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
+\v 26 You must bring the best of the firstfruits from your soil to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
 
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 \v 27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
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 \v 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant decrees in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while speaking with God.
-\v 30 When Aaron and the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
+\v 30 When Aaron and the people of Israel saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
 \v 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community came up to him. Then Moses spoke with them.
 
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 \v 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
 
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-\v 34 Whenever Moses went before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. When he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he was commanded to say.
-\v 35 When the Israelites saw Moses's face shining, he would put the veil over his face again until he went back in to speak with Yahweh.
+\v 34 Whenever Moses went before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. When he came out, he would tell the people of Israel what he was commanded to say.
+\v 35 When the people of Israel saw Moses's face shining, he would put the veil over his face again until he went back in to speak with Yahweh.
 
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-\v 1 Moses assembled all the community of the Israelites and said to them, "These are the things that Yahweh has commanded you to do.
+\v 1 Moses assembled all the community of the people of Israel and said to them, "These are the things that Yahweh has commanded you to do.
 \v 2 On six days work may be done, but for you, the seventh day must be a holy day, a Sabbath day of complete rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
 \v 3 You must not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day."
 
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-\v 4 Moses spoke to all the community of the Israelites, saying, "This is the thing that Yahweh commanded.
+\v 4 Moses spoke to all the community of the people of Israel, saying, "This is the thing that Yahweh commanded.
 \v 5 Take an offering for Yahweh, all of you who have a willing heart. Bring an offering to Yahweh—gold, silver, bronze,
 \v 6 blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats' hair;
 \v 7 ram skins dyed red and fine leather hides; acacia wood;
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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, frames, bars, posts, and bases;
-\v 12 also the ark with its poles, the atonement lid, and the curtain to conceal it.
+\v 12 also the ark with its poles, the atonement lid, and the screen to conceal it.
 
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 \v 13 They brought the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the bread of the presence;
 \v 14 the lampstand for the lights, with its accessories, its lamps, and the oil for the lamps;
-\v 15 the incense altar with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the tabernacle entrance;
+\v 15 the incense altar with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the screen for the tabernacle entrance;
 \v 16 the altar for burnt offerings with its bronze grate and its poles and utensils; and the large basin with its base.
 
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-\v 17 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard entrance;
+\v 17 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the screen for the courtyard entrance;
 \v 18 and the tent pegs for the tabernacle and courtyard, together with their ropes.
 \v 19 They brought the finely-woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons, for them to serve as priests."
 
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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 20 Then the entire congregation of the people 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 a contribution 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 as a wave offering to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be set into the ephod and the breastpiece;
 \v 28 they brought spices and oil for the lamps, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
-\v 29 The Israelites brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart was willing brought materials for all the work that Yahweh had commanded through Moses to be made.
+\v 29 The people of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart was willing brought materials for all the work that Yahweh had commanded through Moses to be made.
 
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-\v 30 Moses said to the Israelites, "See, Yahweh has called by name on Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
+\v 30 Moses said to the people of Israel, "See, Yahweh has called by name on Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
 \v 31 He has filled Bezalel with his Spirit, to give him wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, for all kinds of craftsmanship,
 \v 32 to make artistic designs and to work in gold, silver, and bronze;
 \v 33 also to cut and set stones and to carve wood—to do all kinds of design and craftsmanship.
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 \v 2 Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skillful person in whose mind Yahweh had given skill, and whose heart stirred within him to come and do the work.
-\v 3 They received from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought for constructing the holy place. The people were still bringing freewill offerings every morning to Moses.
+\v 3 They received from Moses all the offerings that the people of Israel had brought for constructing the holy place. The people were still bringing freewill offerings every morning to Moses.
 \v 4 So all the skilled people working on the holy place came from the work that they had been doing.
 
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 \v 36 He made for the curtain four pillars of acacia wood, and he covered them with gold. He also made gold hooks for the pillars, and he cast for them four silver bases.
 
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-\v 37 He made a hanging for the tent entrance. It was made of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, using fine linen, the work of an embroiderer.
+\v 37 He made a screen for the tent entrance. It was made of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, using fine linen, the work of an embroiderer.
 \v 38 He also made the hanging's five pillars with hooks. He covered their tops and their rods with gold. Their five bases were made of bronze.
 
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 \v 16 All the hangings around the courtyard were made of fine linen.
 
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-\v 17 The bases for the posts were made of bronze. The hooks and rods for the posts were made of silver, and the covering for the tops of the posts was also made of silver. All the courtyard posts were covered with silver.
-\v 18 The curtain at the courtyard gate was twenty cubits long. The curtain was made of blue, purple, and scarlet linen, fine twined linen, and was twenty cubits long. It was twenty cubits in length and five cubits in height, like the courtyard curtains.
-\v 19 It had four bronze bases and silver hooks. The covering for their tops and its rods were made of silver.
+\v 17 The bases for the posts were made of bronze. The hooks and rods for the posts were made of silver, and the covering for the tops of the posts was also made of silver. All the courtyard posts had silver bands on them.
+\v 18 The screen at the courtyard gate was twenty cubits long. It was made of blue, purple, and scarlet linen, fine twined linen, and was twenty cubits long. It was twenty cubits in length and five cubits in height, like the courtyard curtains.
+\v 19 Their four pillars and bases were of bronze, and the hooks were of silver. The covering for their tops and its rods were made of silver.
 \v 20 All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and courtyard were made of bronze.
 
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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 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.
+\v 26 or one beka per person, 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 27 One hundred talents of silver were cast for the bases of the holy place and the bases of the curtain—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 bands for them.
 \v 29 The bronze from the wave offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
 
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 \v 13 The fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. The stones were mounted in gold settings.
 
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-\v 14 There were twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
+\v 14 There were twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a signet with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
 \v 15 On the breastpiece they made chains like cords, braided work of pure gold.
 \v 16 They made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the two corners of the breastpiece.
 
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 \v 18 They attached the other two ends of the braided chains to the two settings. They attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at its front.
 
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-\v 19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border.
+\v 19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border of the ephod.
 \v 20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the front of the ephod, close to its seam above the finely-woven waistband of the ephod.
 
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 \v 22 Bezalel made the robe of the ephod entirely of blue fabric, the work of a weaver.
-\v 23 It had an opening for the head in the middle. The opening had a woven edge round about so that it did not tear.
-\v 24 On the bottom hem, they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and of fine linen.
+\v 23 The robe had an opening for the head in the middle. The opening had a woven edge round about so that it did not tear.
+\v 24 On the bottom hem of the robe, they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and of fine linen.
 
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 \v 25 They made bells of pure gold, and they put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the bottom edge the robe, between the pomegranates—
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-\v 27 They made the coats of fine linen for Aaron and for his sons.
+\v 27 They made the tunics of fine linen for Aaron and for his sons.
 \v 28 They made the turban of fine linen, the ornate headbands of fine linen, the linen undergarments of fine linen,
 \v 29 and the sash of fine linen and of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 
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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, frames, bars, posts, and bases;
-\v 34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the curtain to conceal
-\v 35 the ark of the testimony, as well as the poles and the atonement lid.
+\v 34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the screen to conceal
+\v 35 the ark of the covenant decrees, as well as the poles and the atonement lid.
 
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 \v 36 They brought the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the presence;
 \v 37 the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps in a row, with its accessories and the oil for the lamps;
-\v 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the tabernacle entrance;
+\v 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the screen for the tabernacle entrance;
 \v 39 the bronze altar with its bronze grate and its poles and utensil and the large basin with its base.
 
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-\v 40 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard entrance; its ropes and tent pegs; and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
+\v 40 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the screen for the courtyard entrance; its ropes and tent pegs; and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
 \v 41 They brought the fine woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons, for them to serve as priests.
 
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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 testimony in it, and you must shield the ark with the curtain.
+\v 3 You must place the ark of the covenant decrees 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 testimony, 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 covenant decrees, and you must put the screen 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 8 You must set up the courtyard around it, and you must hang up the curtain at the courtyard entrance.
+\v 8 You must set up the courtyard around it, and you must hang up the screen at the courtyard entrance.
 \v 9 You must take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything that is in it. You must set it apart and all its furnishings to me; then it will be holy.
 \v 10 You must anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils. You must set apart the altar to me and it will become very holy to me.
 \v 11 You must anoint the bronze basin and its base and set it apart to me.
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 \v 13 You are to clothe Aaron with the garments that are set apart to me, anoint him and set him apart so that he may serve as my priest.
 
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-\v 14 You are to bring his sons and clothe them with coats.
+\v 14 You are to bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.
 \v 15 You must anoint them as you anointed their father so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will make for them a permanent priesthood throughout their people's generations."
 \v 16 This is what Moses did; he followed all that Yahweh had commanded him. He did all these things.
 
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 \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 testimony, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle. He set up the curtain for the screen to shield the ark of the covenant decrees, 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.
 
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 \v 27 He burned fragrant incense on it, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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-\v 28 He hung the curtain at the tabernacle entrance.
+\v 28 He hung the screen at the tabernacle entrance.
 \v 29 He put the altar for the burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. He offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 \v 30 He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and he put water in it for washing.
 
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 \v 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet from the basin
 \v 32 whenever they would go into the tent of meeting and whenever they would go up to the altar. They washed themselves, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
-\v 33 Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar. He set up the curtain at the courtyard entrance. In this way, Moses finished the work.
+\v 33 Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar. He set up the screen at the courtyard entrance. In this way, Moses finished the work.
 
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 \v 13 Also for the purpose of giving thanks, he must offer with the sacrifice of his peace offering cakes of bread made with yeast.
-\v 14 He is to offer one of each kind of these sacrifices as an offering presented to Yahweh. It will belong to the priests who sprinkle the blood of the peace offerings onto the altar.
+\v 14 He is to offer one of each kind of these sacrifices as a contribution presented to Yahweh. It will belong to the priests who sprinkle the blood of the peace offerings onto the altar.
 
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 \v 31 The priest must burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.
-\v 32 You must give the right thigh to the priest as an offering presented out of the sacrifice of your peace offerings.
+\v 32 You must give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
-\v 2 "When anyone has on the skin of his body a swelling or scab or a bright spot, and it becomes infected and there is a skin disease in his body, then he must be brought to Aaron the high priest, or to one of his sons the priests.
+\v 2 "When anyone has on the skin of his body a swelling or scab or a bright spot, and it becomes infected and there is leprosy in his body, then he must be brought to Aaron the high priest, or to one of his sons the priests.
 
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-\v 3 Then the priest will examine the disease in the skin of his body. If the hair in the diseased area has turned white, and if the disease appears to be deeper than just on the skin, then it is an infectious disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.
+\v 3 Then the priest will examine the disease in the skin of his body. If the hair in the diseased area has turned white, and if the disease appears to be deeper than just on the skin, then it is leprosy. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.
 \v 4 If the bright spot in his skin is white, and the appearance of it is no deeper than the skin, and if the hair in the diseased area has not turned white, then the priest must isolate the one with the disease for seven days.
 
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 \v 7 But if the rash has spread in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must then show himself to the priest again.
-\v 8 The priest will examine him to see if the rash has spread farther in the skin. If it has spread, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is an infectious disease.
+\v 8 The priest will examine him to see if the rash has spread farther in the skin. If it has spread, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
 
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-\v 9 When an infectious skin disease is in someone, then he must be brought to the priest.
+\v 9 When leprosy is in someone, then he must be brought to the priest.
 \v 10 The priest will examine him to see if there is a white swelling in the skin, if the hair has turned white, or if there is raw flesh in the swelling.
-\v 11 If there is, then it is a chronic skin disease, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He will not isolate him, because he is already unclean.
+\v 11 If there is, then it is leprosy, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He will not isolate him, because he is already unclean.
 
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-\v 12 If the disease breaks out widely in the skin and covers all the skin of the person with the disease from his head to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
-\v 13 then the priest must examine him to see if the disease has covered all his body. If it has, then the priest must pronounce the person who has the disease as clean. If it has all turned white, then he is clean.
+\v 12 If the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin and covers all the skin of the person with the disease from his head to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
+\v 13 then the priest must examine him to see if the leprosy has covered all his body. If it has, then the priest must pronounce the person who has the disease as clean. If it has all turned white, then he is clean.
 \v 14 But if raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.
 
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-\v 15 The priest must look at the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean because the raw flesh is unclean. It is an infectious disease.
+\v 15 The priest must look at the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean because the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
 \v 16 But if the raw flesh turns white again, then the person must go to the priest.
 \v 17 The priest will examine him to see if the flesh has turned white. If it has then the priest will pronounce that person to be clean.
 
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 \v 18 When a person has a boil on the skin and it has healed,
 \v 19 and in place of the boil there is white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it must be shown to the priest.
-\v 20 The priest will examine it to see if it appears deeper under the skin, and if the hair there has turned white. If so, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is an infectious disease, if it has developed in the place where the boil was.
+\v 20 The priest will examine it to see if it appears deeper under the skin, and if the hair there has turned white. If so, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy, if it has developed in the place where the boil was.
 
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 \v 24 When the skin has a burn and the raw flesh of the burn has become a reddish-white or white spot,
-\v 25 then the priest will examine it to see if the hair in that spot has turned white, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin. If it has, then it is an infectious disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is an infectious disease.
+\v 25 then the priest will examine it to see if the hair in that spot has turned white, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin. If it has, then it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
 
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 \v 26 But if the priest examines it and finds that there is no white hair in the spot, and it is not under the skin but has faded, then the priest must isolate him for seven days.
-\v 27 Then the priest must examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread widely in the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is an infectious disease.
+\v 27 Then the priest must examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread widely in the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
 \v 28 If the spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin but has faded, then it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest must pronounce him clean, for it is nothing more than the scar of the burn.
 
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 \v 29 If a man or woman has an infectious disease on the head or chin,
-\v 30 then the priest must examine the person for an infectious disease to see if it appears to be deeper than the skin, and if there is yellow, thin hair in it. If there is, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, an infectious disease on the head or the chin.
+\v 30 then the priest must examine the person for an infectious disease to see if it appears to be deeper than the skin, and if there is yellow, thin hair in it. If there is, then the priest must pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, leprosy on the head or the chin.
 
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 \v 31 If the priest examines the itching disease and sees that it is not under the skin, and if there is no black hair in it, then the priest will isolate the person with the itching disease for seven days.
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 \v 41 If his hair has fallen out of the front part of his head, and if his forehead is bald, he is clean.
 
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-\v 42 But if there is a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease that has broken out.
-\v 43 Then the priest must examine him to see if the swelling of the diseased area on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of an infectious disease in the skin.
+\v 42 But if there is a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is leprosy that has broken out.
+\v 43 Then the priest must examine him to see if the swelling of the diseased area on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin.
 \v 44 If it is, then he is leprous and is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his disease on his head.
 
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-\v 47 A garment that is contaminated with mildew, whether it is a wool or linen garment,
+\v 47 A garment that is contaminated with leprosy, whether it is a wool or linen garment,
 \v 48 or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen, or leather or anything made with leather—
-\v 49 if there is a greenish or reddish contamination in the garment, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or anything made of leather, then it is a mildew that spreads; it must be shown to the priest.
+\v 49 if there is a greenish or reddish contamination in the garment, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or anything made of leather, then it is a leprosy that spreads; it must be shown to the priest.
 
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-\v 50 The priest must examine the item for mildew; he must isolate anything that has mildew for seven days.
-\v 51 He must examine the mildew again on the seventh day. If it has spread in the garment or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything in which leather is used, then it is harmful mildew, and the item is unclean.
-\v 52 He must burn the garment, or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather, anything in which the harmful mildew is found, for it can lead to disease. The item must be completely burned up.
+\v 50 The priest must examine the item for leprosy; he must isolate anything that has leprosy for seven days.
+\v 51 He must examine the leprosy again on the seventh day. If it has spread in the garment or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything in which leather is used, then it is harmful leprosy, and the item is unclean.
+\v 52 He must burn the garment, or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather, anything in which the leprosy is found, for it can lead to disease. The item must be completely burned up.
 
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-\v 53 If the priest examines the item and sees that the mildew has not spread in the garment or material woven or knitted from wool or linen, or leather goods,
-\v 54 then he will command them to wash the item in which the mildew was found, and he must isolate it for seven more days.
-\v 55 Then the priest will examine the item after the mildewed item was washed. If the mildew has not changed its color, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn the item, no matter where the mildew has contaminated it.
+\v 53 If the priest examines the item and sees that the leprosy has not spread in the garment or material woven or knitted from wool or linen, or leather goods,
+\v 54 then he will command them to wash the item in which the leprosy was found, and he must isolate it for seven more days.
+\v 55 Then the priest will examine the item after the item where there was leprosy was washed. If the leprosy has not changed its color, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn the item, no matter where the leprosy has contaminated it.
 
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-\v 56 If the priest examines the item, and if the mildew has faded after it was washed, then he must tear out the contaminated part from the garment or from the leather, or from the woven or knitted material.
-\v 57 If the mildew still appears in the garment, either in the woven or knitted material, or in anything made of leather, it is spreading. You must burn any item that has the mildew.
-\v 58 The garment or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather—if you wash the item and the mildew is gone, then the item must be washed a second time, and it will be clean.
+\v 56 If the priest examines the item, and if the leprosy has faded after it was washed, then he must tear out the contaminated part from the garment or from the leather, or from the woven or knitted material.
+\v 57 If the leprosy still appears in the garment, either in the woven or knitted material, or in anything made of leather, it is spreading. You must burn any item that has the leprosy.
+\v 58 The garment or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather—if you wash the item and the leprosy is gone, then the item must be washed a second time, and it will be clean.
 
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-\v 59 This is the law about mildew in a garment of wool or linen, or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather, so that you may pronounce it clean or unclean."
+\v 59 This is the law about leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather, so that you may pronounce it clean or unclean."
 
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 \v 6 The priest will then take the live bird and the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and he will dip all these things, including the live bird, in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
-\v 7 Then the priest will sprinkle this water seven times onto the person who is to be cleansed from the disease, and then the priest will pronounce him to be clean. Then the priest will release the living bird into the open fields.
+\v 7 Then the priest will sprinkle this water seven times onto the person who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and then the priest will pronounce him to be clean. Then the priest will release the living bird into the open fields.
 
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 \v 8 The person who is being cleansed will wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and then he will be clean. After that he must come into the camp, but he will live outside his tent for seven days.
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 \v 30 He must offer one of the doves or young pigeons, such as the person has been able to get—
 \v 31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Then the priest will make atonement for the one who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.
-\v 32 This is the law for a person in whom there is an infectious skin disease, who is not able to afford the standard offerings for his cleansing."
+\v 32 This is the law for a person in whom there is leprosy, who is not able to afford the standard offerings for his cleansing."
 
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 \v 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
-\v 34 "When you have come into the land of Canaan which I gave to you as a possession, and if I put mildew that spreads in a house in the land of your possession,
-\v 35 then he who owns the house must come and tell the priest. He must say, 'There seems to me to be something like mildew in my house.'
+\v 34 "When you have come into the land of Canaan which I gave to you as a possession, and if I put leprosy that spreads in a house in the land of your possession,
+\v 35 then he who owns the house must come and tell the priest. He must say, 'There seems to me to be something like leprosy in my house.'
 
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-\v 36 Then the priest will command that they empty the house before he goes in to see the evidence of mildew, so that nothing in the house will be made unclean. Afterward the priest must go in to see the house.
-\v 37 He must examine the mildew to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the wall's surface.
-\v 38 If the house does have mildew, then the priest will go out of the house and shut the door to the house for seven days.
+\v 36 Then the priest will command that they empty the house before he goes in to see the evidence of leprosy, so that nothing in the house will be made unclean. Afterward the priest must go in to see the house.
+\v 37 He must examine the leprosy to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the wall's surface.
+\v 38 If the house does have leprosy, then the priest will go out of the house and shut the door to the house for seven days.
 
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-\v 39 Then the priest will return again on the seventh day and examine it to see if the mildew has spread in the walls of the house.
-\v 40 If it has, then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the mildew has been found and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
+\v 39 Then the priest will return again on the seventh day and examine it to see if the leprosy has spread in the walls of the house.
+\v 40 If it has, then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the leprosy has been found and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
 
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 \v 41 He will require all the inside walls of the house to be scraped, and they must take the contaminated material that is scraped off outside the city and dump it into the unclean place.
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-\v 43 If mildew comes again and breaks out in the house in which the stones have been taken away and the walls have been scraped and then replastered,
-\v 44 then the priest must come in and examine the house to see if mildew has spread in the house. If it has, then it is harmful mildew, and the house is unclean.
+\v 43 If leprosy comes again and breaks out in the house in which the stones have been taken away and the walls have been scraped and then replastered,
+\v 44 then the priest must come in and examine the house to see if leprosy has spread in the house. If it has, then it is harmful leprosy, and the house is unclean.
 
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 \v 45 The house must be torn down. The stones, timber, and all the plaster in the house must be carried away out of the city to the unclean place.
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-\v 48 If the priest enters the house to examine it to see whether the mildew has spread in the house after the house was plastered, then, if the mildew is gone, he will pronounce the house clean.
+\v 48 If the priest enters the house to examine it to see whether the leprosy has spread in the house after the house was plastered, then, if the leprosy is gone, he will pronounce the house clean.
 
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 \v 49 Then the priest must take two birds to cleanse the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
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-\v 54 This is the law for all types of infectious skin disease and things that cause such disease, and for an itch,
-\v 55 and for mildew in clothing and in a house,
+\v 54 This is the law for all types of leprosy and things that cause it, and for an itch,
+\v 55 and for leprosy in clothing and in a house,
 \v 56 for swelling, for a rash, and for a bright spot,
-\v 57 to determine when any of these cases is unclean or when it is clean. This is the law for infectious skin diseases and mildew."
+\v 57 to determine when any of these cases is unclean or when it is clean. This is the law for leprosy."
 
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-\v 31 Do not turn to spiritists or familiar spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.
+\v 31 Do not turn to sorcerers or spiritists. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 6 The person who turns to those who talk with the dead, or to those who talk with spirits so as to prostitute themselves with them, I will set my face against that person; I will cut him off from among his people.
+\v 6 The person who turns to sorcerers and spiritists so as to prostitute themselves with them, I will set my face against that person; I will cut him off from among his people.
 \v 7 Therefore consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. \f + \ft Several modern translations have \fqa ... because I, Yahweh your God, am holy \fqa* . \f*
 
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-\v 27 A man or a woman who talks with the dead or who talks with spirits must certainly be put to death. The people must stone them with stones. Their blood is upon them.'"
+\v 27 A man or a woman who is a sorcerer or spiritist must certainly be put to death. The people must stone them with stones. Their blood is upon them.'"
 
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 \v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 18 "Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Any Israelite, or an alien living in Israel, when they present a sacrifice—whether it is to fulfill a vow, or whether it is a freewill offering, or they present to Yahweh a burnt offering,
+\v 18 "Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Any man from the house of Israel, or an alien living in Israel, when they present a sacrifice—whether it is to fulfill a vow, or whether it is a freewill offering, or they present to Yahweh a burnt offering,
 \v 19 if it is to be accepted, they must offer a male animal without blemish from the cattle, sheep, or goats.
 
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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 a man of Israel in the camp.
+\v 10 Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against a man of Israel in the camp.
 \v 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name of Yahweh and cursed God, so the people brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.
 \v 12 They held him in custody until Yahweh himself should declare his will to them.
 
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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.
+\v 9 Then you must blow a loud ram's horn everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you must blow a ram's horn throughout all your land.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai. This happened on the first day of the second month during the second year after the people of Israel had come out from the land of Egypt. Yahweh said,
-\v 2 "Conduct a census of all the men of Israel in each clan, in their fathers' families. Count them by name. Count every male, each man
+\v 2 "Conduct a census of the whole congregation of the men of Israel by their clans, by their ancestral households. Number them by name. Count all the males man by man,
 \v 3 who is twenty years old or older. Count all who can fight as soldiers for Israel. You and Aaron must record the number of men in their armed groups.
 
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-\v 4 A man from each tribe, a clan head, must serve with you as his tribe's leader. Each leader must lead the men who will fight for his tribe.
+\v 4 A man from each tribe, a clan head, must serve with you as his tribe's leader. Each leader must lead the men who will fight for his ancestors' household.
 \v 5 These are the names of the leaders who must fight with you:
 \q1 From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
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 \v 17 Moses and Aaron took these men, who were recorded by name,
-\v 18 and along with these men they assembled all the men of Israel on the first day of the second month. Then each man twenty years old and older identified his ancestry. He had to name the clans and families descended from his ancestors.
+\v 18 and they assembled the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The men twenty years old and older registered their ancestry by name, by their clans, by their ancestral households. They were numbered man by man.
 \v 19 Then Moses recorded their numbers in the wilderness of Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
 
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-\v 20 From the descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 20 From the descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted man by man.
 \v 21 They counted 46,500 men from the tribe of Reuben.
 
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-\v 22 From the descendants of Simeon were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 22 From the descendants of Simeon, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the mustered men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted man by man.
 \v 23 They counted 59,300 men from the tribe of Simeon.
 
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-\v 24 From the descendants of Gad were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 24 From the descendants of Gad, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 25 They counted 45,650 men from the tribe of Gad.
 
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-\v 26 From the descendants of Judah were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 26 From the descendants of Judah, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 27 They counted 74,600 men from the tribe of Judah.
 
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-\v 28 From the descendants of Issachar were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 28 From the descendants of Issachar, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 29 They counted 54,400 men from the tribe of Issachar.
 
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-\v 30 From the descendants of Zebulun were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 30 From the descendants of Zebulun, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 31 They counted 57,400 men from the tribe of Zebulun.
 
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-\v 32 From the descendants of Ephraim son of Joseph were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 32 From the descendants of Ephraim son of Joseph, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 33 They counted 40,500 men from the tribe of Ephraim.
 
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-\v 34 From the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 34 From the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 35 They counted 32,200 men from the tribe of Manasseh.
 
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-\v 36 From the descendants of Benjamin were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 36 From the descendants of Benjamin, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 37 They counted 35,400 men from the tribe of Benjamin.
 
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-\v 38 From the descendants of Dan were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 38 From the descendants of Dan, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 39 They counted 62,700 from the tribe of Dan.
 
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-\v 40 From the descendants of Asher were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 40 From the descendants of Asher, from the records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 41 They counted 41,500 men from the tribe of Asher.
 
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-\v 42 From the descendants of Naphtali were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
+\v 42 From the descendants of Naphtali, from the genealogical records, by their clans, by their ancestral households, the names of all the men twenty years old or older, able to go to war, were counted.
 \v 43 They counted 53,400 from the tribe of Naphtali.
 
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-\v 44 Moses and Aaron counted all these men, together with the twelve men who were leading the twelve tribes of Israel.
-\v 45 So all the men of Israel from twenty years old and older, all who could fight in war, were counted in each of their families.
+\v 44 Moses and Aaron counted all these men, together with the twelve men who were leading Israel, each from his ancestor's household.
+\v 45 So all the men of Israel from twenty years old and older, all who could fight in war, were counted in each of their ancestral households.
 \v 46 They counted 603,550 men.
 
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-\v 47 But the men who were descended from Levi were not counted,
+\v 47 But the Levites were not counted according to their ancestors' tribes
 \v 48 because Yahweh had said to Moses,
 \v 49 "You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the total of the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 52 When the people of Israel set up their tents, each man must do so near the banner that belongs to his armed group.
 
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-\v 53 However, the Levites must set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant decrees so that my anger does not come upon the people of Israel. The Levites must care for the tabernacle of the covenant decrees."
+\v 53 However, the Levites must set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant decrees so that my anger does not come upon the people of Israel. The Levites must perform the duties of the tabernacle of the covenant decrees."
 \v 54 The people of Israel did all these things. They did everything that Yahweh commanded through Moses.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke again to Moses and Aaron. He said,
-\v 2 "Each one of the Israelites must camp around his standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They will camp around the tent of meeting on every side.
+\v 2 "Each one of the people of Israel must camp around his standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They will camp around the tent of meeting on every side.
 
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-\v 3 Those will be camping on the east of the tent of meeting, where the sun rises, they are the camp of Judah and they are camping under their standard. Nahshon son of Amminadab is the leader of the people of Judah.
-\v 4 The number of the people of Judah is 74,600.
+\v 3 Those will be camping on the east of the tent of meeting, where the sun rises, they are the camp of Judah by their armed groups, and they are camping under their standard. Nahshon son of Amminadab is the leader of the people of Judah.
+\v 4 The number of the host of the people of Judah is 74,600.
 
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 \v 5 The tribe of Issachar must camp next to Judah. Nethanel son of Zuar must lead the army of Issachar.
-\v 6 The number in his division is 54,400 men.
+\v 6 The number of the host of the people of Issachar is 54,400 men.
 
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 \v 7 The tribe of Zebulun must camp next to Issachar. Eliab son of Helon must lead the army of Zebulun.
-\v 8 The number in his division is 57,400.
+\v 8 The number of the host of the people of Zebulun is 57,400.
 
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 \v 10 On the south side will be the camp of Reuben under their standard. The leader of the camp of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur.
-\v 11 The number in his division is 46,500.
+\v 11 The number of the host of the people of Reuben is 46,500.
 
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-\v 12 Simeon is camping next to Reuben. The leader of the people of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.
-\v 13 The number in his division is 59,300.
+\v 12 Simeon is camping next to Reuben. The leader of the tribe of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.
+\v 13 The number of the host of the people of Simeon is 59,300.
 
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 \v 14 The tribe of Gad is next. The leader of the people of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel.
-\v 15 The number in his division is 45,650.
+\v 15 The number of the host of the people of Gad is 45,650.
 
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 \v 18 On the west side will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud.
-\v 19 The number in his division is 40,500.
+\v 19 The number of the host of the people of Ephraim is 40,500.
 
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 \v 20 Next to them is the tribe of Manasseh. The leader of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
-\v 21 The number in his division is 32,200.
+\v 21 The number of the host of the people of Manasseh is 32,200.
 
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 \v 22 Next will be the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.
-\v 23 The number in his division is 35,400.
+\v 23 The number of the host of the people of Benjamin is 35,400.
 
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 \v 25 On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
-\v 26 The number in his division is 62,700.
+\v 26 The number the host of the people of Dan is 62,700.
 
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 \v 27 The people of the tribe of Asher camp next to Dan. The leader of Asher is Pagiel son of Okran.
-\v 28 The number in his division is 41,500.
+\v 28 The number the host of the people of Asher is 41,500.
 
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 \v 29 The tribe of Naphtali is next. The leader of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan.
-\v 30 The number in his division is 53,400.
+\v 30 The number the host of the people of Naphtali is 53,400.
 
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 \v 31 All those numbered in the camp with Dan is 157,600. They will go out from the camp last, under their banner."
 
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-\v 32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. All those counted in their camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.
+\v 32 These are the descendants of Israel, numbered according to their ancestral households. All those counted in their camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.
 \v 33 But he Levites were not counted along with the people of Israel, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 
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-\v 34 The people of Israel did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They camped by their banners. They went out from the camp by their clans, in the order of their ancestor's families.
+\v 34 The people of Israel did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They camped by their banners. They went out from the camp by their clans, in the order of their ancestor's households.
 
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 \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 12 "Look, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel. I have done this instead of taking each firstborn male who is born among the people of Israel. The Levites belong to me.
+\v 12 "Look, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel. I have done this instead of taking each firstborn, the first issue of the womb, from among the people of Israel. The Levites belong to me.
 \v 13 All the firstborn belong to me. On the day that I attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both men and animals. They belong to me. I am Yahweh."
 
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-\v 17 The names of Levi's sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
+\v 17 The names of the sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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-\v 18 The clans coming from Gershon's sons were Libni and Shimei.
+\v 18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
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-\v 19 The clans coming from Kohath's sons were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
+\v 19 The sons of Kohath, by their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
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-\v 20 The clans coming from Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, listed clan by clan.
+\v 20 The sons of Merari, by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, listed clan by clan.
 
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 \v 27 These clans come from Kohath: the clan of the Amramites, the clan of the Izharites, the clan of the Hebronites, and the clan of the Uzzielites. These clans belong to the Kohathites.
-\v 28 8,600 males have been counted aged one month old and older to take care of the things that belong to Yahweh.
+\v 28 8,600 males have been counted aged one month old and older to perform the duties of the sanctuary.
 \v 29 The Kohath clans must camp on the south side of the tabernacle.
 
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-\v 30 Elizaphan son of Uzziel must lead the clans of the Kohathites.
+\v 30 Elizaphan son of Uzziel must lead the ancestral households of the Kohathites.
 \v 31 They must care for the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the holy things that are used in their service, the curtain, and all the work around it.
-\v 32 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest must lead the men who lead the Levites. He must supervise the men who care for the holy place.
+\v 32 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest must lead the men who lead the Levites. He must supervise the men who perform the duties of the holy place.
 
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 \v 33 Two clans have come from Merari: the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites. These clans have come from Merari.
 \v 34 6,200 males have been counted aged one month old and older.
-\v 35 Zuriel son of Abihail must lead the clans of Merari. They must camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
+\v 35 Zuriel son of Abihail must lead the ancestral households of Merari. They must camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
 
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-\v 38 Moses and Aaron and his sons must camp on the east side of the tabernacle, in front of the tent of meeting, toward the sunrise. They are responsible for the fulfillment of the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the people of Israel. Any foreigner who approaches the sanctuary must be put to death.
+\v 38 Moses and Aaron and his sons must camp on the east side of the tabernacle, in front of the tent of meeting, toward the sunrise. They are responsible for performing the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the people of Israel. Any foreigner who approaches the sanctuary must be put to death.
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 \v 39 Moses and Aaron counted all the males in the clans of Levi who were aged one month old and older, just as Yahweh commanded. They counted twenty-two thousand men.
 
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 \v 45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and take the Levites' livestock instead of the people's livestock. The Levites belong to me—I am Yahweh.
 
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-\v 46 You must collect five shekels for the redemption of each of the 273 firstborn people of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites.
-\v 47 You must use the shekel of the sanctuary as your standard weight. The shekel equals twenty gerahs.
-\v 48 You must give the price of redemption that you paid to Aaron and his sons."
+\v 46 For the redemption of the 273 firstborn sons of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites
+\v 47 you must collect five shekels for each of them. You must use the shekel of the sanctuary as your standard weight. The shekel equals twenty gerahs.
+\v 48 You must give the redemption money that you paid to Aaron and his sons."
 
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-\v 49 So Moses collected the payment of redemption from those who exceeded the number of those redeemed by the Levites.
+\v 49 So Moses collected the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those redeemed by the Levites.
 \v 50 Moses collected the money from the firstborn of the people of Israel. He collected 1,365 shekels, weighing with the shekel of the sanctuary.
 \v 51 Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons. Moses did everything he was told to do by Yahweh's word, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He said,
-\v 2 "Conduct a census of the male descendants of Kohath from among the Levites, by their clans and families.
+\v 2 "Conduct a census of the male descendants of Kohath from among the Levites, by their clans and ancestral households.
 \v 3 Count all the men who are thirty to fifty years old. These men must join the company to serve in the tent of meeting.
 \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 testimony with it.
-\v 6 They must cover the ark with a piece of fine leather. They must spread a blue cloth over it. They must insert the poles to carry it.
+\v 5 When the camp prepares to move forward, Aaron and his sons must go into the tent, take down the screening 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 a piece of fine leather. They must spread a cloth that is completely blue over it. They must insert the poles to carry it.
 
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-\v 7 They are to spread a blue cloth on the table of the bread of the presence. On it they must put the dishes, spoons, bowls, and jars for pouring. Bread must always continue to be on the table.
+\v 7 They are to spread a blue cloth on the table of the bread of the presence. On it they must put the dishes, spoons, bowls, and jars for the drink offering. Bread must always continue to be on the table.
 \v 8 They are to spread over them a scarlet cloth and cover the same with hides of fine leather. They must insert poles to carry the table.
 
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 \v 11 They must spread a cloth of blue on the gold altar. They must cover it with a covering of fine leather, and then insert the carrying poles.
 
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-\v 12 They must take all the equipment for the work in the holy place and wrap it in a blue cloth. They must cover that with the hides of fine leather and put the equipment on the carrying frame.
+\v 12 They must take all the equipment for the ministry, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and wrap it in a blue cloth. They must cover that with the hides of fine leather and put the equipment on the carrying frame.
 \v 13 They must clear away the ashes of fat from the altar and spread a purple cloth on the altar.
 \v 14 They must put on the carrying frame all the equipment that they use in the work of the altar. These objects are the firepans, forks, shovels, bowls, and all the other equipment for the altar. They must cover the altar with fine leather hides and then insert the carrying poles.
 
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 \v 30 from thirty years old and older up to fifty years old. Count everyone who is going to join the company and serve in the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 31 This is their responsibility and their work in all their service for the tent of meeting. They must care for the framing of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, and sockets,
+\v 31 This is their responsibility and their burden in all their service for the tent of meeting. They must care for the framing of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, and sockets,
 \v 32 along with the posts of the courtyard around the tabernacle, their sockets, pegs, and their ropes, with all their hardware. List by name the articles they must carry.
 
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-\v 46 So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel counted all the Levites by their clans in their ancestral families
+\v 46 So Moses, Aaron, and the chiefs of Israel counted all the Levites by their clans in their ancestral families
 \v 47 from thirty to fifty years old. They counted everyone who would do work in the tabernacle, and who would carry and care for the items in the tent of meeting.
 \v 48 They counted 8,580 men.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 2 "Command the people of Israel to send away from the camp everyone with an infectious skin disease, and everyone who has an oozing sore, and whoever is unclean through touching a dead body.
+\v 2 "Command the people of Israel to send away from the camp every leper, everyone who has an oozing sore, and whoever is unclean through touching a dead body.
 \v 3 Whether male or female, you must send them out of the camp. They must not defile the camp, because I live in it."
 \v 4 The people of Israel did so. They sent them out of the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses. The people of Israel obeyed Yahweh.
 
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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.
-\v 9 Every offering of the people of Israel, the things that are set aside and brought to the priest by the people of Israel, will belong to him.
+\v 9 Every contribution, everything the people of Israel have set apart, which they have brought to the priest, will belong to him.
 \v 10 The offerings of every person will be for the priest; if anyone gives anything to the priest, it will belong to him."
 
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 \v 11 Again, Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 12 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Suppose that a man's wife turns away and sins against her husband.
+\v 12 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Suppose that a man's wife turns away and is unfaithful to her husband.
 
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-\v 13 If a man lies with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and her impurity is undetected even though she defiled herself, and there no witness against her. since she was not caught in the act,
+\v 13 If a man lies with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and her impurity is undetected even though she defiled herself, and there no witness against her, since she was not caught in the act,
 \v 14 nevertheless, a spirit of jealousy might still inform the husband that his wife is defiled. However, a spirit of jealousy might falsely come on a man when his wife is not defiled.
 
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 \v 17 The priest must take a jar of holy water and take dust from the floor of the tabernacle. He must put the dust into the water.
 
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-\v 18 The priest will set the woman before Yahweh and he will untie the hair on the woman's head. He will put into her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that can bring a curse.
-\v 19 The priest will put the woman under an oath and say to her, 'If no other man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse.
+\v 18 The priest will set the woman before Yahweh and he will untie the hair on the woman's head. He will put into her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that can bring a curse.
+\v 19 The priest will put the woman under an oath and say to her, 'If no other man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed uncleanness, then you will be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse.
 
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 \v 20 But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority and you have defiled yourself, and some other man has had sexual relations 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 and make your abdomen swell and your thighs waste away.' 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, 'Amen. Amen.'
 
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-\v 29 This is the law of jealousy. It is the law for a woman who strays away from her husband and is defiled.
+\v 29 This is the law of jealousy. It is the law for a woman who goes astray from her husband and is defiled.
 \v 30 It is the law for a man with a spirit of jealousy when he is jealous of his wife. He must bring the woman before Yahweh, and the priest must do to her everything that this law of jealousy describes.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'When a man or a woman separates himself to Yahweh with a special vow of a Nazirite,
-\v 3 he must keep himself from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from strong drink. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
-\v 4 In all the days that he is separate to me, he must eat nothing that is made from grapes, including everything made from the seeds to their skins.
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'When a man or a woman consecrates himself to Yahweh with the special vow of a Nazirite,
+\v 3 he must abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from strong drink. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
+\v 4 In all the days of his consecration, he must eat nothing that is made from the grape vine, including everything from the seeds to the skins.
 
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-\v 5 During all the time of his vow of separation, no razor is to be used on his head until the days of his separation to Yahweh are fulfilled. He must be set apart to Yahweh. He must let the hair grow long on his head.
+\v 5 During all the time of his vow of consecration, no razor is to be used on his head until the days of his consecration to Yahweh are fulfilled. He must be set apart to Yahweh. He must let the hair grow long on his head.
 
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-\v 6 During all the time that he separates himself to Yahweh, he must not come near a dead body.
-\v 7 He must not make himself unclean even for his father, mother, brother, or sister, if they die. This is because he is separated to God, as everyone can see by his long hair.
-\v 8 During all the time of his separation he is holy, reserved for Yahweh.
+\v 6 During all the time that he sets himself apart to Yahweh, he must not come near a dead body.
+\v 7 He must not make himself unclean even for his father, mother, brother, or sister, if they die. This is because he is consecrated to God, as everyone can see by his long hair.
+\v 8 During all the time of his consecration he is holy, reserved for Yahweh.
 
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-\v 13 This is the law about the Nazirite for when the time of his separation is complete. He must be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
+\v 13 This is the law about the Nazirite for when the time of his consecration is complete. He must be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 \v 14 He must present his offering to Yahweh. He must offer as a burnt offering a male lamb one year old and without blemish. He must bring as a sin offering a female lamb one year old and without blemish. He must bring a ram as a fellowship offering that is without blemish.
 \v 15 He must also bring a basket of bread made without yeast, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, wafers without yeast rubbed with oil, together with their grain offering and drink offerings.
 
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 \v 17 With the basket of unleavened bread, he must present the ram as a sacrifice, the fellowship offering to Yahweh. The priest must present also the grain offering and the drink offering.
 
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-\v 18 The Nazirite must shave his head indicating his separation to God at the entrance to the tent of meeting. He must take the hair from his head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of fellowship offerings.
+\v 18 The Nazirite must shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting. He must take the hair from his head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of fellowship offerings.
 
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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 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.
+\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 consecrated hair.
+\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 the contribution for the priest. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
 
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-\v 21 This is the law for the Nazirite who vows his offering to Yahweh for his separation. Whatever else he may give, he must keep the obligations of the vow he has taken, to keep the promise indicated by the law for the Nazirite.'"
+\v 21 This is the law for the Nazirite who vows his offering to Yahweh for his consecration. Whatever else he may give, he must keep the obligations of the vow he has taken, to keep the promise indicated by the law of his consecration.'"
 
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-\v 84 The leaders of Israel set all these apart on the day that Moses anointed the altar. They set apart the twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.
+\v 84 This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day that it was anointed: the chiefs of Israel set apart the twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.
 \v 85 Each silver platter weighed 130 shekels and each bowl weighed seventy shekels. All the silver vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel.
 \v 86 Each of the twelve gold dishes, full of incense, weighed ten shekels by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. All the gold dishes weighed 120 shekels.
 
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 \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.
+\v 16 Do this, because they are entirely mine from among the people of Israel. They will take the place of each firstborn, the first issue of the womb, of all the descendants of Israel. I have taken the Levites for myself.
 \v 17 All the firstborn from among the people of Israel are mine, both man or animal. On the day that I took the lives of all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set them apart for myself.
 
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 \v 25 They must stop serving in this way at the age of fifty years. At that age they must not serve any longer.
-\v 26 They may help their brothers who continue to work at the tent of meeting, but they must serve no more. You must direct the Levites in all these matters."
+\v 26 They may help their brothers who continue to work at the tent of meeting, to perform their duties, but they must serve no more. This is how you must deal with the Levites in all their responsibilities."
 
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 \v 12 They must not leave any of it until the morning, or break any of its bones. They must follow all the regulations for the Passover.
 
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-\v 13 But any person who is clean and is not on a journey, but who fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not offer the sacrifice that Yahweh requires at the fixed time of year. That man must carry his sin.
-\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover to Yahweh, he must keep it according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule. You must have one statute both for the foreigner and for the one who was born in the land."
+\v 13 But any person who is clean and is not on a journey, but who fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not bring the offering that Yahweh requires at the fixed time of year. That man must carry his sin.
+\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover to Yahweh, he must keep it according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule. You must have one statute both for the sojourner and for the one who was born in the land."
 
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 \v 3 The priests must blow the trumpets to call all the community together in front of you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 \v 4 If the priests blow only one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, must gather to you.
-\v 5 When you blow a loud signal, the camps on the east side must begin their journey.
+\v 5 When you blow a loud signal, the tribes camped on the east side must begin their journey.
 
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-\v 6 When you blow a loud signal the second time, the camps on the south side must begin their journey. They must blow a loud signal for their journeys.
+\v 6 When you blow a loud signal the second time, the tribes camped on the south side must begin their journey. They must blow a loud signal for their journeys.
 \v 7 When the community gathers together, blow the trumpets, but not loudly.
-\v 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets. This will always be a regulation for you throughout your people's generations.
+\v 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets. This will always be an ordinance for you throughout your people's generations.
 
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 \v 9 When you go to war in your land against an adversary who oppresses you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets. I, Yahweh your God, will call you to mind and save you from your enemies.
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 \v 29 Moses spoke to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite. Reuel was the father of Moses's wife. Moses spoke to Hobab and said, "We are traveling to a place that Yahweh described. Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will do you good. Yahweh has promised to do good for Israel."
-\v 30 But Hobab said to Moses, "I will not go with you. I will go to my own land and my own people."
+\v 30 But Hobab said to Moses, "I will not go with you. I will go to my own land and my own relatives."
 
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 \v 33 They journeyed from the mountain of Yahweh for three days. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them for three days to find a place for them to rest.
-\v 34 Yahweh's cloud was over them by daylight as they journeyed.
+\v 34 Yahweh's cloud was over them in the daytime as they journeyed.
 
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 \v 7 Manna was like coriander seed. It looked like resin.
-\v 8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it in mills, beat it in mortars, boiled it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like fresh olive oil.
+\v 8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it in mills, beat it in mortars, boiled it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like a delicacy baked with olive oil.
 
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 \v 20 but you will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. It will disgust you because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you. You have wept before him. You said, "Why did we leave Egypt?"'"
 
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-\v 21 Then Moses said, "I am with 600,000 people, and you have said, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.'
+\v 21 Then Moses said, "The people I am with are 600,000 footmen, and you have said, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.'
 \v 22 Should we kill flocks and herds to satisfy them? Should we catch all the fish in the sea to satisfy them?"
 \v 23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Is my hand short? Now you will see whether or not my word is true."
 
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 \v 32 The people were busy gathering quail all that day, all the night, and all the next day. No one gathered less than ten homers of quail. They shared the quail all through the camp.
 
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-\v 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, while they were chewing it, Yahweh became angry at them. He attacked the people with a very great disease.
+\v 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, while they were chewing it, the anger of Yahweh was kindled at them. He attacked the people with a very great disease.
 \v 34 That place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat.
 \v 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth, where they stayed.
 
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 \v 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, so that they might obey Yahweh's command. All of them were leaders among the people of Israel.
-\v 4 These were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
+\v 4 These were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;
 
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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 man, 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 this report about you will 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.'
 
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-\v 17 Now, I beg you, use your great power. For you have said,
+\v 17 Now, I beg you, may the power of my Lord be great. For you have said,
 \v 18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'
-\v 19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's sin because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now."
+\v 19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's iniquity because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now."
 
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 \v 27 "How long must I tolerate this evil community that criticizes me? I have heard the complaining of the people of Israel against me.
 
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-\v 28 Say to them, 'As I live,' says Yahweh, 'as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
+\v 28 Say to them, 'As I live—this is Yahweh's declaration—as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
 \v 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all you who complained against me, you who were counted in the census, the whole number of the people from twenty years old and upward.
 \v 30 You will certainly not go into the land that I promised to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
 
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 \v 34 According to the number of the days during which you examined the land, forty days, you will bear the punishment for your sins for forty years, one year for every day, and you will know my opposition.
-\v 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will certainly do this to all this evil community that is gathered together against me. They will be completely cut off, and here they will die.'"
+\v 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will certainly do this to all this evil community that is gathered together against me. They will be completely cut off in this wilderness, and here they will die.'"
 
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 \v 43 The Amalekites and Canaanites are there, and you will die by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh. So he will not be with you."
 
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-\v 44 But they presumed to go up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left the camp.
-\v 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and defeated them all the way to Hormah.
+\v 44 But they arrogantly went up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left the camp.
+\v 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and beat them down all the way to Hormah.
 
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 \v 13 All who are native-born must do these things in this way, when anyone brings an offering made by fire, to produce an aroma that is pleasing to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 14 If a foreigner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people's generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
-\v 15 There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people's generations. As you are, so also must be the traveler staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
+\v 14 If a sojourner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people's generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
+\v 15 There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people's generations. As you are, so also must be the sojourner staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
 \v 16 The same law and decree must apply to you and to the foreigner who is staying with you.'"
 
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 \v 17 Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
 \v 18 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land where I will take you,
-\v 19 when you eat the food produced in the land, you must offer an offering and present it to me.
+\v 19 when you eat the food produced in the land, you must lift up a contribution to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 20 From the first of your dough you must offer a loaf to raise it up as a raised offering from the threshing floor. You must raise it up in this way.
-\v 21 You must give to me a raised offering throughout your people's generations from the first of your dough.
+\v 20 From the first of your dough you must offer a loaf to lift it up as a contribution, a contribution from the threshing floor. You must lift it up in this way.
+\v 21 You must give to me a lifted contribution throughout your people's generations from the first of your dough.
 
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 \v 27 If a person sins unintentionally, then he must offer a female goat a year old as a sin offering.
-\v 28 The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.
+\v 28 The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who goes astray and sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.
 \v 29 You must have the same law for the one who does anything unintentionally, the same law for the one who is native born among the people of Israel and for the foreigners who are staying among them.
 
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-\v 30 But the person who does anything in defiance, whether he is native born or a foreigner, blasphemes me. That person must be cut off from among his people.
-\v 31 Because he has despised my word and has broken my commandment, that person must be cut off completely. His sin will be on him.'"
+\v 30 But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native born or a foreigner, blasphemes me. That person must be cut off from among his people.
+\v 31 Because he has despised my word and has broken my commandment, that person must be cut off completely. His iniquity will be on him.'"
 
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 \v 1 Now Korah son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, descendants of Reuben, gathered some men.
-\v 2 They rose up against Moses, along with other men from the people of Israel, 250 leaders of the community who were well-known members in the community.
+\v 2 They rose up against Moses, along with other men from the people of Israel, 250 leaders of the community who were men of reputation in the community.
 \v 3 They assembled themselves together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said to them, "You have gone too far! All the community is set apart, every one of them, and Yahweh is among them. Why do you lift up yourselves above the rest of Yahweh's community?"
 
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 \v 4 When Moses heard that, he lay facedown.
-\v 5 He spoke to Korah and to all those with him, "In the morning Yahweh will make known who belongs to him and who is set apart to him. He will bring that person near to him. The one he chooses he will bring near to himself.
+\v 5 He spoke to Korah and all his companions, "In the morning Yahweh will make known who belongs to him and who is set apart to him. He will bring that person near to him. The one he chooses he will bring near to himself.
 
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 \v 6 Do this, Korah and all your group. Take censers
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 \v 8 Again, Moses said to Korah, "Now listen, you descendants of Levi:
 \v 9 is it a small thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do work in Yahweh's tabernacle, and to stand before the community to serve them?
 \v 10 He has brought you near, and all your kinfolk, the descendants of Levi, with you, yet you are seeking the priesthood also!
-\v 11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled against Yahweh. Who is Aaron that you grumble against him?"
+\v 11 Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh. Who is Aaron that you grumble against him?"
 
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 \v 15 Moses was very angry and said to Yahweh, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed any of them."
-\v 16 Then Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow you and all your company must go before Yahweh—you and they, and Aaron.
+\v 16 Then Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow you and all your companions must go before Yahweh—you and they, and Aaron.
 \v 17 Each of you must take his censer and put incense in it. Then each man must bring before Yahweh his censer, 250 censers. You and Aaron, also, must each bring your censer."
 
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 \v 2 As for your fellow members of the tribe of Levi, your ancestors' tribe, you must bring them with you so they may join you and help you when you and your sons serve in front of the tent of the covenant decrees.
 
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-\v 3 They must serve you and the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the holy place or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die.
-\v 4 They must join you and take care of the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you.
-\v 5 You must take responsibility for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again.
+\v 3 They must perform your duties and the duties of the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the holy place or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die.
+\v 4 They must join you and perform the duties connected with the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you.
+\v 5 You must perform the duties for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again.
 
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 \v 6 Look, I myself have chosen your fellow members of the Levites from among the descendants of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to me to do the work connected to the tent of meeting.
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-\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "Look, I have given you the duty of handling the offerings raised up to me, and all the holy offerings that the people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your ongoing share.
+\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "Look, I have given you the duty of handling the contributions lifted up to me, and all the holy offerings that the people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you as a consecrated portion and to your sons as your assigned portion for all time.
 \v 9 This will belong to you from the most holy things that is kept from the fire. From every offering of theirs—every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—they are set apart to you and to your sons.
 
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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, set apart out of all their gifts of the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your portion forever. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your family may eat any of these offerings.
+\v 11 These are the contributions that will belong to you, set apart out of all their gifts of the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your portion forever. Everyone who is ceremonially 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.
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 \v 14 Every devoted thing in Israel will be yours.
-\v 15 Everything that opens the womb, all the firstborn which the people offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the people must certainly redeem every firstborn son, and they must redeem the firstborn male of unclean animals.
-\v 16 Those that are to be bought back by the people must be bought back after becoming one month old. Then the people may buy them back, for the price of five shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.
+\v 15 Every first issue of the womb, all the firstborn that the people offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the people must certainly redeem every firstborn son, and they must redeem the firstborn male of unclean animals.
+\v 16 Those that are to be redeemed by the people must be redeemed after becoming one month old. Then the people may redeem them for the price of five shekels of silver, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.
 
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 \v 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat—you must not redeem these animals; they are set apart to me. You must sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to Yahweh.
-\v 18 Their meat will be yours. Like the raised breast and the right thigh, their meat will be yours.
+\v 18 Their meat will be yours. Like the breast and the right thigh that are lifted as an offering, their meat will be yours.
 
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-\v 19 All the holy offerings that the people of Israel present to Yahweh, I have given to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a continual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt, a binding covenant forever, before Yahweh for both you and your descendants with you."
+\v 19 All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to Yahweh, I have given to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a continual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt, a binding covenant forever, before Yahweh for both you and your descendants with you."
 \v 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in the people's land, nor will you have any share of property among the people. I am your share and inheritance among the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 22 From now on the people of Israel must not come near the tent of meeting, or they will be responsible for this sin and die.
 
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-\v 23 The Levites must do the work connected to the tent of meeting. They will be responsible for any sin regarding it. This will be a permanent law throughout your people's generations. Among the people of Israel they must have no inheritance.
-\v 24 For the tithes of the people of Israel, which they offer as a contribution to me—it is these that I have given to the Levites as their inheritance. That is why I said to them, 'They must have no inheritance among the people of Israel.'"
+\v 23 The Levites must do the work connected to the tent of meeting. They will be responsible for any iniquity regarding it. This will be a permanent law throughout your people's generations. Among the people of Israel they must have no inheritance.
+\v 24 For the tithes of the people of Israel, which they offer as a contribution to Yahweh—it is these that I have given to the Levites as their inheritance. That is why I said to them, 'They must have no inheritance among the people of Israel.'"
 
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 \v 30 Therefore you must say to them, 'When you present the best of it, then it must be credited to the Levites as the product from the threshing floor and the winepress.
 \v 31 You may eat the rest of your gifts in any place, you and your families, because it is your pay in return for your work in the tent of meeting.
-\v 32 You will not incur any guilt by eating and drinking it, if you have presented to Yahweh the best of what you have received. But you must not profane the holy offerings of the people of Israel, or you will die.'"
+\v 32 You will not bear any sin by eating and drinking it, if you have presented to Yahweh the best of what you have received. But you must not profane the holy offerings of the people of Israel, or you will die.'"
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said,
-\v 2 "This is a statute, a law which I am commanding you: Say to the people of Israel that they must bring to you a red heifer without flaw or blemish, and which has never carried a yoke.
+\v 2 "This is a statute, a law which Yahweh is commanding you: Say to the people of Israel that they must bring to you a red heifer without flaw or blemish, and which has never carried a yoke.
 
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 \v 3 Give the heifer to Eleazar the priest. He must bring it outside the camp, and someone must kill it in front of him.
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 \v 8 The one who has burned the heifer must wash his clothes in water and bathe in water. He will remain unclean until the evening.
 
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-\v 9 Someone who is clean must gather up the heifer's ashes and put them outside the camp in a clean place. These ashes must be kept for the community of the people of Israel. They will mix the ashes with water for purification from sin, since the ashes were from a sin offering.
+\v 9 A man who is clean must gather up the heifer's ashes and put them outside the camp in a clean place. These ashes must be kept for the community of the people of Israel. They will mix the ashes with water for purification from sin, since the ashes were from a sin offering.
 \v 10 The one who gathered the heifer's ashes must wash his clothes. He will remain unclean until the evening. This will be a permanent law for the people of Israel and the foreigners who stay with them.
 
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 \v 10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock. Moses said to them, "Listen now, you rebels. Must we bring water out of this rock for you?"
-\v 11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, and much water came out. The community drank, and their livestook drank.
+\v 11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, and much water came out. The community drank, and their livestock drank.
 
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 \v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me or honor me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them."
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-\v 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: Your brother Israel says this: "You know all the difficulties that have happened to us.
+\v 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: Your brother Israel says this: "You know all the hardship that has found us.
 \v 15 You know that our ancestors went down to Egypt and lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians treated us harshly and also our ancestors.
 \v 16 When we called out to Yahweh, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. Look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the border of your land.
 
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 \v 27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the community.
 \v 28 Moses took Aaron's priestly garments off him and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down.
-\v 29 When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the entire nation wept for Aaron for thirty days.
+\v 29 When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the entire house of Israel wept for Aaron for thirty days.
 
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 \v 1 When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was traveling by the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.
 \v 2 Israel vowed to Yahweh and said, "If you give us victory over these people, then we will completely destroy their cities."
-\v 3 Yahweh listened to Israel's voice and he gave them victory over the Canaanites. They completely destroyed them and their cities. That place was called Hormah.
+\v 3 Yahweh listened to Israel's voice and he gave them victory over the Canaanites. They completely destroyed them and their cities. That place was named Hormah.
 
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 \v 5 The people spoke against God and Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we hate this miserable food."
 
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-\v 6 Then Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among the people. The snakes bit the people; many people died.
+\v 6 Then Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among the people. The snakes bit the people; many people of Israel died.
 \v 7 The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and you. Pray to Yahweh for him to take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
 
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-\v 18 Balaam answered and said to Balak's men, "Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Yahweh, my God, and do less or more than what he tells me.
+\v 18 Balaam answered and said to Balak's servants, "Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Yahweh, my God, and do less or more than what he tells me.
 \v 19 Now then, please wait here tonight too, so that I may learn anything further that Yahweh says to me."
 \v 20 God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them. But only do what I tell you to do."
 
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 \v 6 So Balaam returned to Balak, who was standing by his burnt offering, and all the leaders of Moab were with him.
 
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-\v 7 Then Balaam began to speak his prophecy and said,
+\v 7 Then Balaam began to speak his proverb and said,
 \q "Balak has brought me from Aram,
 \q2 the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.
 \q 'Come, curse Jacob for me,' he said.
-\q2 'Come, defy Israel.'
+\q2 'Come, denounce Israel.'
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 \v 8 How can I curse those whom God has not cursed?
-\q2 How can I oppose those whom Yahweh does not oppose?
+\q2 How can I denounce those whom Yahweh does not denounce?
 
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 \v 21 He has not looked upon disaster in Jacob,
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 \q Yahweh their God is with them,
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 \v 23 There is no sorcery that works against Jacob,
-\q2 and no fortune-telling harms Israel.
+\q2 and no divination harms Israel.
 \q Instead, it must be said about Jacob and Israel,
 \q2 'Look what God has done!'
 
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 \v 1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he did not go, as at the other times, to use sorcery. Instead, he looked toward the wilderness.
 
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-\v 2 He raised his eyes and saw that Israel was camped, each in their own tribe, and the Spirit of God came on him.
+\v 2 Balaam raised his eyes and saw that Israel was camped, each in their own tribe, and the Spirit of God came on him.
 \v 3 He received this prophecy and said,
-\q "Balaam son of Beor is about to speak,
-\q2 the man whose eyes are wide open.
+\q "This is the declaration of Balaam son of Beor,
+\q2 the declaration of the man whose eyes are wide open,
 
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-\v 4 He speaks and hears God's words.
-\q2 He sees a vision from the Almighty,
-\q Before whom he bows down with his eyes open.
+\v 4 the declaration of the one who hears the words of God,
+\q2 who sees a vision from the Almighty,
+\q who bows down with his eyes open.
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-\v 5 How beautiful are your tents, Jacob,
+\v 5 How delightful are your tents, Jacob,
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 \v 10 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam and he struck his hands together in anger. Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have blessed them three times.
-\v 11 So leave me right now and go home. I said I would greatly reward you, but Yahweh has kept you from getting any reward."
+\v 11 So flee home now. I said I would greatly reward you, but Yahweh has kept you from getting any reward."
 
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 \v 12 Then Balaam replied to Balak, "I said to the messengers that you sent to me,
 \v 13 'Even if Balak gave me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond Yahweh's word and anything bad or good, or anything at all that I might want to do. I can say only what Yahweh tells me to say.' Did I not say this to them?
-\v 14 So now, look, I will go back to my people. But first let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days ahead."
+\v 14 So now, look, I will go back to my people. But first let me advise you about what this people will do to your people in the days ahead."
 
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 \v 15 Balaam began this prophecy. He said,
-\q "Balaam son of Beor speaks,
-\q2 The man whose eyes are wide open.
+\q "This is the declaration of Balaam son of Beor,
+\q2 the declaration of the man whose eyes are wide open.
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-\v 16 This is a prophecy of someone who hears words from God,
+\v 16 This is the declaration of someone who hears words from God,
 \q2 who has knowledge from the Most High,
-\q2 who has visions from the Almighty,
-\q Before whom he bows down with open eyes.
+\q2 who sees visions from the Almighty,
+\q who bows down with open eyes.
 
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 \v 20 Then Balaam looked at Amalek and began his prophecy. He said,
 \q "Amalek was once the greatest of nations,
-\q2 but his final end will be destruction."
+\q2 but his end will be eternal destruction."
 
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 \v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Kill all the leaders of the people and hang them up before me to expose them in the daylight, so that my fierce anger may turn away from Israel."
-\v 5 So Moses said to Israel's leaders, "Each of you must execute his people who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor."
+\v 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must slay his people who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor."
 
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 \v 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned my rage away from the people of Israel because he was passionate with my zeal among them. So I have not consumed the people of Israel in my fierceness.
+\v 11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned my rage away from the people of Israel because he was passionate with my zeal among them. So I have not consumed the people of Israel in my jealousy.
 
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 \v 14 Now the name of the man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of an ancestor's family among the Simeonites.
-\v 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kozbi daughter of Zur, who was head of a tribe and family in Midian.
+\v 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kozbi daughter of Zur, who was head of a tribe and ancestral household in Midian.
 
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-\v 9 Eliab's sons were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These were the same Dathan and Abiram who followed Korah when they challenged Moses and Aaron and rebelled against Yahweh.
+\v 9 Eliab's sons were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These were the same Dathan and Abiram who were in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Moses and Aaron and rebelled against Yahweh.
 
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-\v 10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when all his followers died. At that time, fire devoured 250 men, who became a warning sign.
+\v 10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when all his company died. At that time, fire devoured 250 men, who became a warning sign.
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 \v 54 To the larger clans you must give more inheritance, and to the smaller clans you must give less inheritance. To every family you must give an inheritance according to the number of men who were counted.
-\v 55 However, the land must be divided by random lots. They must inherit the land as it will be divided among their ancestors' tribes.
+\v 55 However, the land must be divided by random lots. They must inherit the land according to the names of their ancestors' tribes.
 \v 56 Their inheritance must be divided among the larger and the smaller clans, distributed to them by random lot."
 
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 \v 2 They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and before all the community at the entrance to the tent of meeting. They said,
-\v 3 "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among those who conspired against Yahweh in the company of Korah. He died for his own sin, and he had no sons.
+\v 3 "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company that gathered themselves together to oppose Yahweh, in the company of Korah. He died for his own sin, and he had no sons.
 
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-\v 4 Why should our father's name be taken away from among his clan members because he had no son? Give us land among our father's relatives."
+\v 4 Why should our father's name be taken away from among his clan members because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father's relatives."
 \v 5 So Moses brought their case before Yahweh.
 
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 \v 6 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 7 "Zelophehad's daughters are speaking correctly. You must certainly give them land as an inheritance among their father's relatives, and you must ensure that their father's inheritance passes on to them.
+\v 7 "Zelophehad's daughters are speaking correctly. You must certainly give them a possession as an inheritance among their father's relatives, and you must ensure that their father's inheritance passes on to them.
 \v 8 You must speak to the people of Israel and say, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you must cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
 
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 \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.
 \v 13 After you have seen it, you, too, must be gathered to your people, like Aaron your brother.
-\v 14 This will happen because you two rebelled against my command in the wilderness of Zin. There, when the water flowed from the rock, in your anger you failed to honor me as holy before the eyes of the whole community." These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
+\v 14 This will happen because you two rebelled against my command in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation. There, when the water flowed from the rock, in your anger you failed to honor me as holy before the eyes of the whole community." These are the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
 
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 \v 22 So Moses did as Yahweh had commanded him. He took Joshua and placed him before Eleazar the priest and all the community.
-\v 23 He laid his hands on him and commanded him to lead, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
+\v 23 Moses laid his hands on him and commanded him to lead, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
 
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-\v 12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you must have a holy assembly to honor Yahweh. You must not do regular work on that day, and you must keep the festival for him seven days.
+\v 12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you must have a holy assembly to honor Yahweh. You must not do regular work on that day, and you must celebrate the festival for him seven days.
 \v 13 You must offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. You must offer thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old. Each must be without blemish.
 
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 \v 4 if her father hears the vow and the promise by which she has bound herself, and if he says nothing to reverse her, then all her vows will remain in force, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.
 
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-\v 5 But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; Yahweh will release her because her father has forbidden her.
+\v 5 But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; Yahweh will forgive her because her father has forbidden her.
 
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 \v 6 If she marries a husband after she makes a vow or her lips uttered a rash promise by which she has bound herself,
 \v 7 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows will stand, and the pledges by which she bound herself will stand.
 
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-\v 8 But if her husband stops her on the day that he hears about it, then he cancels the vow that she has made, the rash talk of her lips with which she has bound herself, and Yahweh will release her.
+\v 8 But if her husband stops her on the day that he hears about it, then he cancels the vow that she has made, the rash talk of her lips with which she has bound herself, and Yahweh will forgive her.
 
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 \v 9 But any vow of a widow or a divorced woman will stand against her.
-\v 10 If a woman made a vow in her husband's house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath,
+\v 10 If a woman made a vow in her husband's house or bound herself by a promise with an oath,
 \v 11 and her husband hears of it but he says nothing to her and he does oppose her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself will stand.
 
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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 stand. Her husband has canceled them, and Yahweh will release her.
+\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 stand. Her husband has canceled them, and Yahweh will forgive her.
 
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 \v 13 Any vow and any binding oath to afflict her, her husband may make it stand or her husband may cancel it.
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 2 "Take vengeance on the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After doing that, you will die and be gathered to your people."
+\v 2 "Take vengeance on the Midianites for what they did to the people of Israel. After doing that, you will die and be gathered to your people."
 
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 \v 3 So Moses spoke to the people. He said, "Arm some of your men for war so they may go against Midian and carry out Yahweh's vengeance on it.
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 \v 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their dead: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor, with the sword.
 
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-\v 9 The army of Israel took captive the women of Midian, their children, all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods. They took these as plunder.
+\v 9 The army of Israel took captive the women of Midian, their children, all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods. They took these as plunder.
 \v 10 They burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps.
 
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 \v 11 They took all the plunder and prisoners, both people and animals.
-\v 12 They brought the prisoners, the plunder, and the captured things to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the people of Israel. They brought these to the camp in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan near Jericho.
+\v 12 They brought the prisoners, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the people of Israel. They brought these to the camp in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan near Jericho.
 
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 \v 13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
-\v 14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from battle.
+\v 14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from serving in the battle.
 \v 15 Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
 
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-\v 16 Look, these women caused the people of Israel, through Balaam's advice, to commit sin against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, when the plague spread among Yahweh's community.
+\v 16 Look, these women caused the people of Israel, through Balaam's advice, to commit faithlessness against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, when the plague spread among Yahweh's community.
 \v 17 Now then, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with him.
 
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-\v 18 But take for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man by lying with him.
+\v 18 But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man by lying with him.
 \v 19 All of you who have killed anyone or touched anyone who was killed must stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you must purify yourselves and your captives.
 \v 20 You must purify every garment and everything made of animal hide and goats' hair, and everything made of wood."
 
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-\v 21 Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to war, "This is a decreed law that Yahweh has given to Moses:
+\v 21 Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to war, "This is a decreed law that Yahweh has commanded Moses:
 \v 22 The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead,
 \v 23 and everything that resists fire, you must put it through the fire, and it will become clean. You must then purify those things with the water of cleansing. Whatever cannot go through the fire you must cleanse with that water.
 \v 24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and then you will become clean. Afterward you may come into Israel's camp."
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 \v 25 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 26 "Count all the plundered things that were taken, both men and animals. You and Eleazar the priest and family heads of the ancestor's clans
+\v 26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the community's ancestral clans are to count all the plundered things that were captured, both men and animals. 
 \v 27 must divide the plunder into two parts. Divide it between the soldiers who went out to battle and all the rest of the community.
 
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 \v 28 Then levy a tax to be given to me from the soldiers who went out to battle. This tax must be one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or goats.
-\v 29 Take this tax from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest for an offering to be presented to me.
+\v 29 Take this tax from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest for a contribution to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 30 Also from the people of Israel's half, you must take one out of every fifty—from the persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats. Give these to the Levites who take care of my tabernacle."
+\v 30 Also from the people of Israel's half, you must take one out of every fifty—from the persons, cattle, donkeys, and sheep—from all the animals. Give these to the Levites who perform the duties of my tabernacle."
 \v 31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 
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-\v 32 Now the plunder that remained of what the soldiers had taken was 675,000 sheep,
+\v 32 Now the booty that remained of the spoil that the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep,
 \v 33 seventy-two thousand cattle,
 \v 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,
 \v 35 and thirty-two thousand women who had not known a man by lying with him.
 
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 \v 36 The half that was kept for the soldiers numbered 337,000 sheep,
-\v 37 from which Yahweh's part of the sheep was 675.
+\v 37 The tax for Yahweh of the sheep was 675.
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-\v 38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand from which Yahweh's part was seventy-two.
+\v 38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand, from which the tax for Yahweh was seventy-two.
 
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-\v 39 The donkeys were 30,500 from which Yahweh's part was sixty-one.
+\v 39 The donkeys were 30,500 from which the tax for Yahweh was sixty-one.
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-\v 40 The persons were sixteen thousand women from which Yahweh's part was thirty-two.
+\v 40 The persons were sixteen thousand women, from which the tax for Yahweh was thirty-two.
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-\v 41 Moses took the tax that was to be an offering presented to Yahweh. He gave it to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
+\v 41 Moses took the tax that was to be a contribution presented to Yahweh. He gave it to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
 
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 \v 46 and sixteen thousand women.
 
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-\v 47 From the people of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of people and animals. He gave them to the Levites who kept care of Yahweh's tabernacle, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
+\v 47 From the people of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of people and animals. He gave them to the Levites who performed the duties of Yahweh's tabernacle, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
 
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 \v 48 Then the officers of the army, the commanders over thousands and the captains over hundreds, came to Moses.
-\v 49 They said to him, "Your servants have counted the soldiers who are under our command, and not one man is missing.
+\v 49 They said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the soldiers who are under our command, and not one man is missing.
 
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 \v 50 We have brought Yahweh's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before Yahweh."
-\v 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold and all the articles of craftsmanship.
+\v 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold—all the articles of craftsmanship.
 
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-\v 52 All the gold of the offering that they gave to Yahweh—the offerings from the commanders of thousands and from the captains of hundreds—weighed 16,750 shekels.
+\v 52 All the gold of the contribution that they gave to Yahweh—the offerings from the commanders of thousands and from the captains of hundreds—weighed 16,750 shekels.
 \v 53 Each soldier had taken plunder, each man for himself.
 \v 54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and captains of hundreds. They took it into the tent of meeting as a reminder of the people of Israel for Yahweh.
 
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 \v 25 The descendants of Gad and Reuben spoke to Moses and said, "Your servants will do as you, our master, commands.
 
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-\v 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will stay there in the cities of Gilead.
-\v 27 However, we, your servants, will cross over before Yahweh to battle, every man who is armed for war, as you, our master, say."
+\v 26 Our little ones, our wives, our cattle, and all our livestock will stay there in the cities of Gilead.
+\v 27 However, we, your servants, every man who is armed for war, will cross over before Yahweh to battle, as our master says."
 
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 \v 3 They traveled from Rameses during the first month, leaving on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morning after the Passover, the people of Israel left openly, in the sight of all the Egyptians.
-\v 4 This happened while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, those whom Yahweh had killed among them, for he also inflicted punishment on their gods.
+\v 4 This happened while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, those whom Yahweh had killed among them, for he also made judgments against their gods.
 
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 \v 50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho and said,
 \v 51 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
-\v 52 then you must drive out all the land's inhabitants before you. You must destroy all their carved figures. You must destroy all their cast figures and demolish all their high places.
+\v 52 then you must drive out all the land's inhabitants before you. You must destroy all their carved figures. You must destroy all their cast metal images and demolish all their high places.
 
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 \v 53 You must take possession of the land and settle in it, because I have given you the land to possess.
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-\v 13 Then Moses commanded the people of Israel and said, "This is the land that you will receive by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.
+\v 13 Then Moses commanded the people of Israel and said, "This is the land that you will receive by lot as a possession, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.
 \v 14 The tribe of the descendants of Reuben, following the assignment of property to their ancestor's tribe, and the tribe of the descendants of Gad, following the assignment of property to their ancestor's tribe, and the half tribe of Manasseh have all received their land.
-\v 15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their share of land beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."
+\v 15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their possession  beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."
 
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 \v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
 \v 17 "These are the names of the men who will divide the land for your inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
-\v 18 You must choose one leader from every tribe to divide the land for their clans.
+\v 18 You must choose one leader from every tribe to divide the land as their possession.
 
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 \v 28 From the tribe of the descendants of Naphtali a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud."
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-\v 29 Yahweh commanded these men to divide the land of Canaan and to give each of the tribes of Israel their share.
+\v 29 Yahweh commanded these men to divide the land of Canaan and to give it to each of the tribes of Israel as their possession.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho and said,
-\v 2 "Command the people of Israel to give some of their own shares of land to the Levites. They must give them cities to live in and pastureland surrounding those cities.
+\v 2 "Command the people of Israel to give some of their own shares of the inheritance that they possess to the Levites. They must give them cities to live in and pastureland surrounding those cities.
 
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 \v 3 The Levites will have these cities to live in. The pastureland will be for their cattle, their flocks, and all their other animals.
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 \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 8 The larger tribes of the people of Israel, the tribes that have more land, must provide more cities. The smaller tribes will provide fewer cities. Each tribe must provide for the Levites according to the share that it has received."
+\v 8 As for the cities which you will give from the possession of the children of Israel, from tribes with many you shall take many, and from tribes with few you shall take few. Every tribe according to its inheritance shall give some of his cities to the Levites."
 
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 \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.
+\v 12 These cities must be your refuge from the avenger, so that the killer will not die without first standing trial before the community.
 \v 13 You must choose six cities as cities of refuge.
 
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 \v 25 The community must rescue the accused from the power of the avenger of blood. The community must return the accused to the city of refuge to which he had originally fled. He must live there until the death of the current high priest, the one who was anointed with the holy oil.
 
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-\v 26 But if the accused man at any time goes beyond the border of the city of refuge to which he fled,
+\v 26 But if the killer at any time goes beyond the border of the city of refuge to which he fled,
 \v 27 and if the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and if he kills the accused man, the avenger of blood will not be guilty of murder.
 \v 28 This is because the accused man should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest, the accused may return to the land where he has his own property.
 
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 \v 1 Then the leaders of the ancestors' families of the clan of Gilead son of Makir (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.
+\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 possession 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 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."
+\v 4 In that case, when the year of Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their possession will be joined to the possession of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their possession will be taken away from the possession of our ancestors' tribe."
 
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 \v 5 So Moses gave a command to the people of Israel, at Yahweh's word. He said, "What the tribe of Joseph's descendants says is right.
-\v 6 This is what Yahweh commands concerning Zelophehad's daughters. He says, 'Let them be married to whom they think best, but they must marry only within the tribal clan of their father.'
+\v 6 This is what Yahweh commands concerning Zelophehad's daughters. He says, 'Let them be married to whom they think best, but they must marry only within the tribe of their father.'
 
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-\v 7 No share of the people of Israel must change from one tribe to another. Each one of the people of Israel must continue with the share of his ancestor's tribe.
+\v 7 No possession of the people of Israel must change from one tribe to another. Each one of the people of Israel must continue with the possession of his ancestor's tribe.
 
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-\v 8 Every woman of the people of Israel who owns a share in her tribe must marry someone from the clans belonging to her father's tribe. This is so that everyone of the people of Israel may own an inheritance from his ancestors.
+\v 8 Every woman of the people of Israel who has a possession in her tribe must marry someone from the clans belonging to her father's tribe. This is so that everyone of the people of Israel may own an inheritance from his ancestors.
 \v 9 No share may change hands from one tribe to another. Everyone of the tribes of the people of Israel must keep his own inheritance."
 
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-\v 41 Then you answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against Yahweh; we will go up and fight, and we will follow all that Yahweh our God has commanded us to do.' Every man among you put on his weapons of war, and you were ready to attack the hill country.
+\v 41 Then you answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against Yahweh; we will go up and fight, and we will follow all that Yahweh our God has commanded us to do.' Every man among you girded on his weapons of war, and you were ready to attack the hill country.
 \v 42 Yahweh said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not attack and do not fight, for I will not be with you, and you will be defeated by your enemies.'
 
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 \v 43 I spoke to you in this way, but you did not listen. You rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh; you were arrogant and attacked the hill country.
-\v 44 But the Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you like bees, and struck you down in Seir, as far as Hormah.
+\v 44 But the Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you like bees, and crushed you in Seir, as far as Hormah.
 
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 \v 45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh did not listen to your voice, nor did he pay attention to you.
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 \v 24 "'Now rise up, go on your journey, and pass over the Valley of the Arnon; look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and fight with him in battle.
-\v 25 Today I will begin to put the fear and terror of you on the peoples that are under the whole sky; they will hear news about you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.'
+\v 25 Today I will begin to put the fear and terror of you on the peoples that are under the whole sky; they will hear a report about you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.'
 
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 \v 34 We took all his cities at that time and completely destroyed every city—men and the women and the little ones; we left no survivor.
-\v 35 Only the livestock we took as spoils for ourselves, along with the spoil of the cities that we had taken.
+\v 35 Only the livestock we took as booty for ourselves, along with the spoil of the cities that we had taken.
 
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 \v 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, all the way to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God gave them into our hands.
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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. 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 survivor remained for him.
 \v 4 We took all his cities at that time. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
 
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 \v 5 These were all cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; this was besides very many unwalled villages.
 \v 6 We completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, completely destroying every city—men and the women and the little ones.
-\v 7 But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we plundered for ourselves.
+\v 7 But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.
 
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 \v 8 At that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
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-\v 23 I implored Yahweh at that time, saying,
+\v 23 I earnestly appealed to Yahweh at that time, saying,
 \v 24 'O Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do the same works as you have done, and the same mighty acts?
 \v 25 Let me go over, I beg you, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country, and also Lebanon.'
 
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 \v 44 This is the law that Moses placed before the people of Israel;
-\v 45 these are the covenant decrees, laws, and other decrees that he spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
+\v 45 these are the covenant decrees, laws, and ordinances that he spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
 \v 46 when they were east of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the people of Israel had defeated when they came out of Egypt.
 
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 \v 20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron so as to destroy him; I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
 
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-\v 21 I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it, beat it, and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.
+\v 21 I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it, beat it, and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.
 
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 \v 4 You will not worship Yahweh your God like that.
 
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-\v 5 But to the place that Yahweh your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name, that will be the place where he lives, and it is there that you will go.
+\v 5 But to the place where Yahweh your God chooses out of all your tribes to establish his name, that will be the place where he lives, and it is there that you will go.
 \v 6 It is there that you will bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offerings presented by your hand, your offerings for vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
 
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-\v 15 However, you may kill and eat animals within all your gates, as you wish, receiving the blessing of Yahweh your God for all that he has given you; the unclean and the clean persons both may eat of it, animals such as the gazelle and the deer.
+\v 15 However, you may kill and eat animals within all your gates, as you desire, receiving the blessing of Yahweh your God for all that he has given you; the unclean and the clean persons both may eat of it, animals such as the gazelle and the deer.
 \v 16 But you will not eat the blood; you will pour it out on the earth like water.
 
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 \v 20 When Yahweh your God enlarges your borders, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat flesh,' because of your desire to eat meat, you may eat meat, as your soul desires.
 
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-\v 21 If the place that Yahweh your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, then you will kill some of your herd and your flock that Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; you may eat within your gates, as your soul desires.
+\v 21 If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to establish his name is too far from you, then you will kill some of your herd and your flock that Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; you may eat within your gates, as your soul desires.
 \v 22 Like the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you will eat of it; the unclean and the clean persons may eat of it alike.
 
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-\v 5 That prophet or that dreamer of dreams will be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and who redeemed you out of the house of bondage. That prophet wants to draw you out of the way in which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk. So put away the evil from among you.
+\v 5 That prophet or that dreamer of dreams will be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and who redeemed you out of the house of bondage. That prophet wants to draw you out of the way in which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk. So completely remove the evil from among you.
 
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 \v 15 You will surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, completely destroy it and all the people who are in it, along with its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
-\v 16 You will gather all the spoil from it into the middle of its street and will burn the city, as well as all its spoil—for Yahweh your God. The city will be a heap of ruins forever; it must never be built again.
+\v 16 You will gather all the spoil from it into the middle of its street and will burn the city, as well as all its booty, as a burnt offering for Yahweh your God. The city will be a heap of ruins forever; it must never be built again.
 
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-\v 17 None of those things set apart for destruction must stick in your hand. This must be the case, so that Yahweh will turn from the fierceness of his anger, show you mercy, have compassion on you, and make you increase in numbers, as he has sworn to your fathers.
+\v 17 None of those things set apart for destruction must stick in your hand. This must be the case, so that Yahweh will turn from the burning of his anger, show you mercy, have compassion on you, and make you increase in numbers, as he has sworn to your fathers.
 \v 18 He will do this because you are listening to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
+\v 21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
 
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 \v 22 You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after year.
-\v 23 You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose as his sanctuary, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.
+\v 23 You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place where he will choose to make a dwelling for his name, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 24 If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses you,
+\v 24 If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place where Yahweh your God will choose to establish his name is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses you,
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 \v 1 Observe the month of Aviv, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Aviv Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
-\v 2 You will sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God with some of the flock and the herd in the place that Yahweh will choose as his sanctuary.
+\v 2 You will sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God with some of the flock and the herd in the place where Yahweh will choose to make a dwelling for his name.
 
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 \v 3 You will eat no leavened bread with it; seven days will you eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste. Do this all the days of your life so that you may call to mind the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
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 \v 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your city gates that Yahweh your God is giving you.
-\v 6 Instead, sacrifice at the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary. There you will perform the sacrifice of the Passover in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the time of year that you came out of Egypt.
+\v 6 Instead, sacrifice at the place where Yahweh your God will choose to make a dwelling for his name. There you will perform the sacrifice of the Passover in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the time of year that you came out of Egypt.
 
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 \v 9 You will count seven weeks for yourselves; from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you must start counting seven weeks.
-\v 10 You must keep the Festival of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the contribution of a freewill offering from your hand that you will give, according as Yahweh your God has blessed you.
+\v 10 You must keep the Festival of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand that you will give, according as Yahweh your God has blessed you.
 
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-\v 11 You will rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your city gates, and the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose for his sanctuary.
+\v 11 You will rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your city gates, and the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place where Yahweh your God will choose to make a dwelling for his name.
 \v 12 You will call to mind that you were a slave in Egypt; you must observe and do these statutes.
 
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 \v 16 Three times in a year all your males must appear before Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Shelters. No one will appear before Yahweh empty-handed;
-\v 17 instead, every man will give as he is able, that you might know the blessing that Yahweh your God has given to you.
+\v 17 instead, every man will bring a gift as he is able, that you might know the blessing that Yahweh your God has given to you.
 
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-\v 8 If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge—perhaps a question of murder or accidental death, of one person's right and another person's right, or a question of one kind of harm done, or another kind of matter, matters of controversy within your city gates—then you must go up to the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary.
+\v 8 If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge—perhaps a question of one kind of bloodshed or another, of one kind of lawsuit or another, or of one kind of wound or another—matters of controversy within your city gates—then you must go up to the place that Yahweh your God chooses.
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-\v 12 Anyone who acts arrogantly, in not listening to the priest who is standing to serve before Yahweh your God, or in not listening to the judge—that man will die; you will put away the evil from Israel.
+\v 12 Anyone who acts in arrogance, listening neither to the priest who is standing to serve before Yahweh your God nor to the judge—that man will die; you will completely remove the evil from Israel.
 \v 13 All the people must hear and fear, and act arrogantly no more.
 
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-\v 6 If a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel from where he is living, and desires with all his soul to come to the place Yahweh will choose,
+\v 6 If a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel where he is living and desires with all his soul to come to the place Yahweh will choose,
 \v 7 then he must serve in the name of Yahweh his God as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
 \v 8 They must have similar portions to eat, besides of what comes of the sale of his family's inheritance.
 
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 \v 9 When you have come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, you must not learn to observe the abominations of those nations.
-\v 10 There must not be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or his daughter in the fire, anyone who uses divination or tells fortunes, or reads signs found in a cup, or engages in witchcraft,
-\v 11 any charmer, anyone who conjurs up spirits, or one who casts spells, or who talks with spirits of the dead.
+\v 10 There must not be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or his daughter in the fire, or anyone who uses divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
+\v 11 or one who casts spells or a sorcerer or a spiritist or one who seeks the dead.
 
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 \v 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; it is because of these abominations that Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you.
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 \v 21 This is what you must say in your heart: 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'
 
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-\v 22 You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.
+\v 22 You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it in arrogance, and you must not be afraid of him.
 
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 \v 11 But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, and mortally wounds him so that he dies, and if he then flees into one of these cities—
 \v 12 then the elders of his city must send and bring him back from there, and turn him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
-\v 13 Your eye must not pity him; instead, you must eradicate the bloodguilt from Israel, that it may go well with you.
+\v 13 Your eye must not pity him; instead, you must completely remove the bloodguilt from Israel so that it may go well with you.
 
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 \v 6 Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go home, so he will not die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
-\v 7 What man is there who is engaged to marry a woman but has not yet married her? Let him go home so that he does not die in battle and another man marries her.'
+\v 7 What man is there who is betrothed to a woman but has not yet married her? Let him go home so that he does not die in battle and another man marry her.'
 
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 \v 8 The officers must speak further to the people and say, 'What man is there who is fearful or fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, so that his brother's heart does not melt like his own heart.'
-\v 9 When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they must appoint commanders over them.
+\v 9 When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they must appoint commanders of armies over them.
 
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 \v 10 When you march up to attack a city, make those people an offer of peace.
-\v 11 If they accept your offer and open their gates to you, all the people who are found in it must become forced labor for you and must serve you.
+\v 11 If they answer peace and open their gates to you, all the people who are found in it must become forced labor for you and must serve you.
 
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 \v 12 But if it makes no offer of peace to you, but instead makes war against you, then you must besiege it,
-\v 13 and when Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, you must kill every man in the town.
+\v 13 and when Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, you must strike every man in the town with the edge of the sword.
 
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 \v 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not put guilt for innocent bloodshed in the midst of your people Israel.' Then the bloodshed will be forgiven them.
-\v 9 In this way you will put away the innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
+\v 9 In this way you will completely remove the innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
 
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 \v 10 When you go out to do battle against your enemies and Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, and you take them away as captives,
-\v 11 if you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire for her and wish to take her for yourself as a wife,
+\v 11 if you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you delight in her and wish to take her for yourself as a wife,
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 \v 13 Suppose a man takes a wife, and he goes to her, and then hates her,
-\v 14 and then accuses her of shameful things and puts a bad reputation on her, and says, 'I took this woman, but when I came near to her, I found no proof of virginity in her.'
+\v 14 and then accuses her of shameful deeds and puts a bad reputation on her, and says, 'I took this woman, but when I came near to her, I found no proof of virginity in her.'
 
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 \v 18 The elders of that city must take that man and punish him;
-\v 19 and they must fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because the man has caused a bad reputation for a virgin of Israel. She must be his wife; he may not send her away during all his days.
+\v 19 and they must force him to pay a fine of one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because the man has caused a bad reputation for a virgin of Israel. She must be his wife; he may not send her away during all his days.
 
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-\v 22 If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from among you.
+\v 22 If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from Israel.
 
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-\v 23 If there is a girl who is a virgin, engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,
+\v 23 If there is a girl who is a virgin, betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,
 \v 24 take both of them to the city gate, and stone them to death. You must stone the girl, because she did not cry out, even though she was in the city. You must stone the man, because he violated his neighbor's wife; and you will remove the evil from among you.
 
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-\v 25 But if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and if he seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her must die.
+\v 25 But if the man finds the betrothed girl in the field, and if he seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her must die.
 \v 26 But to the girl you must do nothing; there is no sin worthy of death in the girl. For this case is like when a man attacks his neighbor and kills him.
-\v 27 For he found her in the field; the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.
+\v 27 For he found her in the field; the betrothed girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.
 
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-\v 28 If a man finds a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and if he seizes her and lies with her, and if they are discovered,
+\v 28 If a man finds a girl who is a virgin but who is not betrothed, and if he seizes her and lies with her, and if they are discovered,
 \v 29 then the man who lay with her must give fifty shekels of silver to the girl's father, and she must become his wife, because he has violated her. He may not send her away during all his days.
 
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 \v 9 When you march out as an army against your enemies, then you must keep yourselves from every evil thing.
-\v 10 If there is among you any man who is unclean because of what happened to him at night, then he must go out of the army's camp; he must not come back into the camp.
+\v 10 If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nighttime accident, then he must go out of the army's camp; he must not come back into the camp.
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-\v 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unsuitable thing in her, then he must write her a certificate of divorce, put it into her hand, and send her out of his house.
+\v 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found something shameful about her, then he must write her a certificate of divorce, put it into her hand, and send her out of his house.
 \v 2 When she has gone out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
 
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 \v 3 If the second husband hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it into her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the second husband dies, the man who took her to be his wife—
-\v 4 then her former husband, the one who had first sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has become impure; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You must not cause the land to become guilty, the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.
+\v 4 then her former husband, the one who had first sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has become unclean; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You must not cause the land to become guilty, the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.
 
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-\v 5 When a man takes a new wife, he will not go to war with the army, neither may he be commanded to go on any forced duty; he will be free to be at home for one year and will cheer his wife whom he has taken.
+\v 5 When a man takes a new wife, he will not go to war with the army, neither may he be commanded to go on any forced duty; he will be free to be at home for one year and will bring joy to his wife whom he has taken.
 
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 \v 19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and if you have forgotten an omer of grain in the field, you must not go back to get it; it must be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, or for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
-\v 20 When you shake your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again; it will be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, or for the widow.
+\v 20 When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again; it will be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, or for the widow.
 
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 \v 1 If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges judge them, then they will acquit the righteous and condemn the wicked.
-\v 2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, then the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the ordered number of blows, as was his crime.
+\v 2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, then the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the ordered number of blows, according to his wickedness.
 
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 \v 1 When you have come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and when you possess it and live in it,
-\v 2 then you must take some of the first of all the harvest of the land that you have brought in from the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. You must put it in a basket and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary.
+\v 2 then you must take some of the first of all the produce of the land that you have brought in from the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. You must put it in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your God will choose to make a dwelling for his name.
 
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 \v 3 You must go to the priest who will be serving in those days and say to him, 'I acknowledge today to Yahweh your God that I have come to the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors to give us.'
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-\v 6 The Egyptians treated us badly and afflicted us. They made us do the work of slaves.
+\v 6 The Egyptians treated us badly and afflicted us. They put hard labor on us.
 \v 7 We cried out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and he heard our voice and saw our affliction, our labor, and our oppression.
 
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 \v 9 and he has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.
 
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-\v 10 Now look, I have brought the first of the harvest of the land that you, Yahweh, have given me.' You must set it down before Yahweh your God and worship before him;
+\v 10 Now look, I have brought the first of the produce of the land that you, Yahweh, have given me.' You must set it down before Yahweh your God and worship before him;
 \v 11 and you must rejoice in all the good that Yahweh your God has done for you, for your house—you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
 
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 \v 12 When you have finished giving all the tithe of your harvest in the third year, that is, the year of tithing, then you must give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your city gates and be filled.
-\v 13 You must say before Yahweh your God, 'I have brought out of my house the things that belong to Yahweh, and have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments that you have given me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
+\v 13 You must say before Yahweh your God, 'I have completely removed from my house the things that belong to Yahweh, and have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments that you have given me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
 
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-\v 14 I have not eaten any of it in my mourning, nor have I put it somewhere else when I was impure, nor have I given any of it in honor of the dead. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have obeyed everything you have commanded me to do.
+\v 14 I have not eaten any of it in my mourning, nor have I put it somewhere else when I was unclean, nor have I given any of it in honor of the dead. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have obeyed everything you have commanded me to do.
 \v 15 Look down from the holy place where you live, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land that you have given us, as you had sworn to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'
 
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 \v 7 and you will sacrifice fellowship offerings and will eat there; you will rejoice before Yahweh your God.
-\v 8 You will write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."
+\v 8 You will write on the stones all the words of this law. Write them very plainly."
 
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-\v 18 'May the man be cursed who makes the blind to wander away from the road.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 18 'May the man be cursed who misleads the blind on the road.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 20 Yahweh will send on you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all that you put your hand to, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly because of your wicked actions by which you will have forsaken me.
+\v 20 Yahweh will send on you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all that you put your hand to, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly because of the evil of your deeds by which you will have forsaken me.
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-\v 30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
-\v 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to aid you.
+\v 30 You will betroth a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
+\v 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to deliver you.
 
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-\v 33 The harvest of your land and of all your labors—a nation that you do not know will eat it up; you will always be oppressed and crushed,
+\v 33 The produce of your land and of all your labors—a nation that you do not know will eat it up; you will always be oppressed and crushed,
 \v 34 so that you will become insane by what you have to see happen.
 \v 35 Yahweh will attack you in the knees and legs with severe boils from which you cannot be cured, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
 
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 \v 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will neither drink any of the wine, nor even gather in the grapes, for worms will eat them.
 
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-\v 40 You will have olive trees within all your territory, but you will not rub any of the oil on yourself, for your olive trees will drop their fruit.
+\v 40 You will have olive trees within all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive trees will drop their fruit.
 \v 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, for they will go into captivity.
 
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-\v 42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground—the locusts will take them over.
+\v 42 All your trees and the produce of your ground—the locusts will take them over.
 \v 43 The foreigner who is among you will rise up above you higher and higher; you yourself will come down lower and lower.
 \v 44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.
 
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 \v 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle flies to its victim, a nation whose language you do not understand;
 \v 50 a nation with a fierce face that does not respect the aged and does not show favor to the young.
-\v 51 They will eat the young of your livestock and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave for you no grain, new wine, or oil, no calves of your herds or the lambs of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
+\v 51 They will eat the young of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave for you no grain, new wine, or oil, no calves of your herds or the lambs of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
 
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 \v 52 They will besiege you in all your city gates, until your high and fortified walls come down everywhere in your land, walls in which you had trusted. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout all the land that Yahweh your God had given you.
-\v 53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will put upon you.
+\v 53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will oppress you.
 
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-\v 54 The man who is tender and very delicate among you—he will be envious of his brother and his own dear wife, and of whatever children he has left.
-\v 55 So he will not give to any of them the flesh of his own children that he is going to eat, because he will have nothing left for himself in the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within all your city gates.
+\v 54 The man who is timid and very delicate among you—he will be envious of his brother and his own dear wife, and of whatever children he has left.
+\v 55 So he will not give to any of them the flesh of his own children that he is going to eat, because he will have nothing left for himself in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will oppress you within all your city gates.
 
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 \v 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to put the bottom of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness—she will be envious of her own dear husband, of her son, and of her daughter,
-\v 57 and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within your city gates.
+\v 57 and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will oppress you within your city gates.
 
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 \v 5 I have led you for forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.
-\v 6 You did not eat any bread, and you did not drink any wine or other alcoholic drinks, so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.
+\v 6 You did not eat any bread, and you did not drink any wine or other strong drink, so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 7 When you came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us to fight, and we struck them down.
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 \v 17 You have seen their disgusting idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, that were among them.
-\v 18 Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.
+\v 18 Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces poison fruit and wormwood.
 \v 19 When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.
 
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-\v 1 When all these things have come on you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, and when you call them to mind among all the other nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
+\v 1 When all these things have come on you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, and when you call them to mind among all the other nations where Yahweh your God has banished you,
 \v 2 and when you return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice, following all that I am commanding you today— you and your children—with all your heart and with all your soul,
 \v 3 then Yahweh your God will reverse your captivity and have compassion on you; he will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
 
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 \v 8 You will return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I am commanding you today.
 
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-\v 9 Yahweh your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for prosperity. For Yahweh will again delight in making you prosperous, as he took delight in your fathers.
+\v 9 Yahweh your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for prosperity. For Yahweh will again delight in making you prosperous, as he rejoiced over your fathers.
 \v 10 He will do this if you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God, so as to keep his commandments and regulations that are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul.
 
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 \v 20 For when I will have brought them into the land that I swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, and when they have eaten and become satisfied and prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and they will serve them and they will despise me and they will break my covenant.
 
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-\v 21 When many evils and troubles come upon this people, this song will testify before them as a witness (for it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants). For I know the plans that they are forming today, even before I have brought them into the land that I promised them."
+\v 21 When many evils and troubles come upon this people, this song will testify before them as a witness (for it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants). For I know the plans that they are forming today, even before I have brought them into the land that I swore to them."
 
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 \q They are a perverted and crooked generation.
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 \v 6 Do you reward Yahweh in this way,
-\q you foolish and senseless people?
+\q you foolish and unwise people?
 \q Is he not your Father, the one who has created you?
 \q He made you and established you.
 
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 \v 7 Call to mind the days of ancient times,
-\q think about the years of many ages past.
+\q think about the years of generations past.
 \q Ask your father and he will show you,
 \q your elders and they will tell you.
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 \v 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance—
 \q when he divided all of mankind,
-\q and he set the boundaries of the peoples,
-\q as he also fixed the number of their gods.
+\q and he set the boundaries of the peoples
+\q according to the number of the children of Israel.
 
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 \q with fat of lambs,
 \q rams of Bashan and goats,
 \q with the finest of the wheat—
-\q and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes.
+\q and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of grapes.
 
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 \v 20 "I will hide my face from them," he said,
 \q "and I will see what their end will be;
 \q for they are a perverse generation,
-\q children who are unfaithful.
+\q children in whom is no faithfulness.
 
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 \v 22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
 \q and is burning to the lowest Sheol;
-\q it is devouring the earth and its harvest;
+\q it is devouring the earth and its produce;
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-\v 28 For Israel is a nation devoid of wisdom,
+\v 28 For Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
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 \v 29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
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 \q and Yahweh had given them up?
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 \v 31 For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock,
-\q just as even our enemies admit.
+\q just as even our enemies have concluded.
 
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 \v 10 There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face.
 \v 11 There has never been any prophet like him in all the signs and wonders that Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land.
-\v 12 There has never been any prophet like him in all the great, fearsome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
+\v 12 There has never been any prophet like him in all the mighty, fearsome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
 

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 \v 19 All the silver, gold, and the things made of bronze and iron are set apart to Yahweh. They must go into the treasury of Yahweh."
 
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-\v 20 When they gave blasts with the trumpets, the people gave a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so every man charged straight in and captured the city.
+\v 20 So the people gave a great shout, and they blew on the trumpets. Now when the people heard the trumpet sound, they gave a great shout, the wall fell down flat, and every man charged straight in and captured the city.
 \v 21 They completely destroyed all that was in the city by the edge of the sword—man and woman, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
 
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 \v 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw the ambush had captured the city with the smoke rising, they turned around and killed the men of Ai.
 
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-\v 22 The other came out from the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israel in the middle, some on this side and some on that side. Israel attacked the men of Ai; none of them survived or escaped.
+\v 22 The other came out from the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israel in the middle, some on this side and some on that side. Israel attacked the men of Ai; none remained of those who survived or escaped.
 \v 23 They kept the king of Ai, whom they captured alive, and they brought him to Joshua.
 
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 \v 25 Now, look, you hold us in your power. Whatever seems good and right for you to do to us, do it."
 
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-\v 26 So Joshua did this for them: He delivered them out of the control of the people of Israel, so that the Israelites did not kill them.
+\v 26 So Joshua did this for them: He delivered them out of the control of the people of Israel, so that the people of Israel did not kill them.
 \v 27 That day Joshua made the Gibeonites cutters of wood and drawers of water for the community, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that Yahweh chooses.
 
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-\v 1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the men of Israel conquered. The Israelites took possession of the land on the east side of the Jordan where the sun rises, from the Valley of the Arnon River to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east.
+\v 1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the men of Israel conquered. The people of Israel took possession of the land on the east side of the Jordan where the sun rises, from the Valley of the Arnon River to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east.
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 \v 2 Sihon, king of the Amorites, lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer, which is on the rim of the Arnon Gorge from the middle of the valley, and half of Gilead down to the Jabbok River on the border of the Ammonites.
 

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 \v 1 Now Yahweh left these nations to test Israel, namely everyone in Israel who had not experienced any of the wars fought in Canaan.
-\v 2 (He did this to teach warfare to the new generation of the Israelites who had not known it before.)
+\v 2 (He did this to teach warfare to the new generation of the people of Israel who had not known it before.)
 \v 3 These are the nations: the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon mountains, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. \f + \ft Some modern English translations read, \fqa Hamath Pass \fqa* \f*
 
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-\v 12 After that, the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave strength to Eglon king of Moab to overpower the Israelites.
+\v 12 After that, the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave strength to Eglon king of Moab to overpower Israel.
 \v 13 Eglon joined with the Ammonites and the Amalekites and they went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.
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 \v 26 While the servants were waiting, wondering what they should do, Ehud escaped and passed beyond the place where there were carved images of idols, and so he escaped to Seirah.
-\v 27 When he arrived, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hills, and he was leading them.
+\v 27 When he arrived, he blew a ram's horn in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hills, and he was leading them.
 
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 \v 5 Whenever they and their livestock and tents came up, they would come as a swarm of locusts, and it was impossible to count either the people or their camels. They invaded the land in order to destroy it.
-\v 6 Midian weakened the Israelites so severely that the people of Israel called out to Yahweh.
+\v 6 Midian weakened the people of Israel so severely that the people of Israel called out to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 15 When Gideon heard the retelling of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He went back to the camp of Israel and said, "Get up! Yahweh has given you victory over the Midian army."
-\v 16 He divided the three hundred men into three groups, and he gave them all trumpets and empty jars, with torches inside each jar.
+\v 16 He divided the three hundred men into three groups, and he gave them all rams' horns and empty jars, with torches inside each jar.
 
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-\v 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow your trumpets also on every side of the entire camp and shout, 'For Yahweh and for Gideon!'"
+\v 18 When I blow the ram's horn, I and all who are with me, then blow your ram's horns also on every side of the entire camp and shout, 'For Yahweh and for Gideon!'"
 
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-\v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp, right at the beginning of the middle watch. Just as the Midianites were changing guard, they blew the trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.
+\v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp, right at the beginning of the middle watch. Just as the Midianites were changing guard, they blew the rams' horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
 
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-\v 20 The three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow them. They shouted out, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon."
+\v 20 The three companies blew the rams' horns and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the rams' horns in their right hands to blow them. They shouted out, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon."
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-\v 22 When they blew the three hundred trumpets, Yahweh set every Midianite man's sword against his comrades and against all their army. The army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, near Tabbath.
+\v 22 When they blew the three hundred rams' horns, Yahweh set every Midianite man's sword against his comrades and against all their army. The army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, near Tabbath.
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-\v 17 Then the Ammonites were summoned and set up camp in Gilead. The Israelites came together and set up their camp at Mizpah.
+\v 17 Then the Ammonites were summoned and set up camp in Gilead. The people of Israel came together and set up their camp at Mizpah.
 \v 18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight the Ammonites? He will become the leader over all those who are living in Gilead."
 
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 \v 5 During the night, the leaders of Gibeah attacked me, surrounding the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.
 \v 6 I took my concubine and cut her body into pieces, and sent them into each region of Israel's inheritance, because they have committed wickedness and an act of disgraceful folly in Israel.
-\v 7 Now, all you Israelites, give your advice and counsel here."
+\v 7 Now, all you people of Israel, give your advice and counsel here."
 
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 \v 16 Then the elders of the assembly said, "How will we arrange wives for the Benjamites who are left, since the women of Benjamin have been killed?"
-\v 17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe is not destroyed from Israel.
+\v 17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for the escaped remnant of Benjamin, so that a tribe is not destroyed from Israel.
 
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 \v 5 Then both Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.
 
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-\v 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the country of Moab because she had heard in the country of Moab that Yahweh had visited his people by giving them food.
+\v 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the country of Moab because she had heard in the country of Moab that Yahweh had provided for his people's needs by giving them food.
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 \v 2 He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no man among the people of Israel who was a more handsome person than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
 
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-\v 3 Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the servants with you; arise and go look for the donkeys."
+\v 3 Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the servants with you; arise and go search for the donkeys."
 \v 4 So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and went through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not find them.
 
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-\v 14 Then Saul's uncle said to him and his servant, "Where did you go?" He replied, "To look for the donkeys. When we saw that we could not find them, we went to Samuel."
+\v 14 Then Saul's uncle said to him and his servant, "Where did you go?" He replied, "To search for the donkeys. When we saw that we could not find them, we went to Samuel."
 \v 15 Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you."
 \v 16 Saul replied to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken.
 
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 \v 2 he chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with him in Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the soldiers he sent home, each man to his tent.
 
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+\v 3 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba and the Philistines heard of it. Then Saul blew the ram's horn throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."
 \v 4 All Israel heard that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a rotten smell to the Philistines. Then the soldiers were summoned together to join Saul at Gilgal.
 
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 \v 14 Now the Spirit of Yahweh left Saul, and a harmful spirit from Yahweh troubled him instead.
 \v 15 Saul's servants said to him, "See now, a harmful spirit from God is terrifying you.
-\v 16 Let our master now command your servants who are before you to look for a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the harmful spirit from God is on you, he will play it and you will be well."
+\v 16 Let our master now command your servants who are before you to search for a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the harmful spirit from God is on you, he will play it and you will be well."
 
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-\v 20 Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the earth away from Yahweh's presence; for the king of Israel has come out to look for the one flea as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
+\v 20 Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the earth away from Yahweh's presence; for the king of Israel has come out to search for the one flea as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
 
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-\v 3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. Also, Saul had banned from the land those who talked with the dead and those who talked with spirits.
+\v 3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. Also, Saul had banned sorcerers and spiritists from the land.
 \v 4 Then the Philistines gathered themselves together and came and camped at Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they camped at Gilboa.
 
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-\v 7 Then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who talks with the dead, so that I may go to her and seek her advice." His servants said to him, "See, there is a woman in Endor who talks with the dead."
+\v 7 Then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who is a sorceress, so that I may go to her and seek her advice." His servants said to him, "See, there is a woman in Endor who is a sorceress."
 
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-\v 9 The woman said to him, "See, you know what Saul has done, how he has banned from the land those who talk with the dead or with spirits. So why are you setting a trap for my life, to make me die?"
+\v 9 The woman said to him, "See, you know what Saul has done, how he has banned sorcerers and spiritists from the land. So why are you setting a trap for my life, to make me die?"
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 \v 22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows among those who had gone with David said, "Because these men did not go with us, we will not give them any of the booty that we have recovered. However, each man may lead away his wife and children and go."
 
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+\v 23 Then David said, "You must not act like this, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given to us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the marauding band that came against us.
 \v 24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as the share is for anyone who goes into battle, so also will the share be for anyone who waits by the baggage; they will share and share alike."
 \v 25 It has been so from that day to this day, for David made it a statute and a decree for Israel.
 

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 \v 27 Joab replied, "Just as God lives, if you had not said that, my soldiers would have pursued their brothers until the morning!"
 
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+\v 28 So Joab blew the ram's horn, and all his men stopped and did not pursue Israel anymore, nor did they fight anymore.
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-\v 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting and the sound of trumpets.
+\v 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting and the sound of rams' horns.
 
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 \v 9 So the king said to him, "Go in peace." So Absalom arose and went to Hebron.
-\v 10 But then Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you must say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron.'"
+\v 10 But then Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the ram's horn, then you must say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron.'"
 
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 \v 27 It came about when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Makir son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,
 \v 28 brought sleeping mats and blankets, bowls and pots, and wheat, barley flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
-\v 29 honey, butter, sheep, and milk curds, so that David and the people with him could eat. These men had said, "The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness."
+\v 29 honey, butter, sheep, and milk curds from the herd, so that David and the people with him could eat. These men had said, "The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness."
 
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-\v 16 Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the army returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab held back the army.
+\v 16 Then Joab blew the ram's horn, and the army returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab held back the army.
 \v 17 They took Absalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest; they buried his body under a very large pile of stones, while all Israel fled, every man to his own tent.
 
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-\v 1 There also happened to be at the same place a worthless man whose name was Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite. He blew the trumpet and said, "We have no part in David, neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Let every man go back to his tent, Israel!"
+\v 1 There also happened to be at the same place a worthless man whose name was Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite. He blew the ram's horn and said, "We have no part in David, neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Let every man go back to his tent, Israel!"
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 \v 21 That is not true. But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, named Sheba son of Bikri, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city." The woman said to Joab, "His head will be thrown to you over the wall."
-\v 22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri, and threw it out to Joab. Then he blew the trumpet and Joab's men left the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
+\v 22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri, and threw it out to Joab. Then he blew the ram's horn and Joab's men left the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
 
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 \v 28 Then King David answered and said, "Call Bathsheba back to me." She came into the king's presence and stood before the king.
-\v 29 The king made an oath and said, "As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed me out of all trouble,
+\v 29 The king made an oath and said, "As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all trouble,
 \v 30 as I vowed to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, 'Solomon your son will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place,' I will do this today."
 \v 31 Then Bathsheba bowed down and put her face to the ground and she showed honor to the king and said, "May my master King David live forever!"
 
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 \v 32 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada." So they came before the king.
 \v 33 The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your master, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
-\v 34 Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel and blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
+\v 34 Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel and blow the ram's horn and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
 
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 \v 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride upon King David's mule; they brought him to Gihon.
-\v 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
+\v 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram's horn, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
 \v 40 Then all the people went up after him, and the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.
 
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-\v 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "Why is there an uproar in the city?"
+\v 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the ram's horn, he said, "Why is there an uproar in the city?"
 \v 42 While he was still speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest came. Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news."
 
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-\v 42 the king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by Yahweh and testify to you, saying, 'Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any other place, you will surely die'? Then you said to me, 'What you say is good.'
+\v 42 the king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by Yahweh and testify to you, saying, 'Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any other place, you will surely die'? Then you said to me, 'What I have heard is good.'
 
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-\v 19 and Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan, and he was the only official who was in the land.
+\v 19 and Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan, and he was the only deputy who was in the land.
 
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-\v 20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea. They were eating and drinking and were happy.
+\v 20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea. They were eating and drinking and were rejoicing.
 \v 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 \v 22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,
 \v 23 ten head of cattle fattened in the stall, twenty head of cattle taken from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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 \v 27 But will God actually live on the earth? Look, the entire universe and heaven itself cannot contain you—how much less can this temple that I have built!
-\v 28 Yet please respect this prayer of your servant and his request, Yahweh my God; listen to the cry and prayer that your servant prays before you today.
+\v 28 Yet please respect this prayer of your servant and his humble request, Yahweh my God; listen to the cry and prayer that your servant prays before you today.
 
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-\v 30 So listen to the request of your servant and of your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, listen from the place where you live, from the heavens; and when you listen, forgive.
+\v 30 So listen to the humble request of your servant and of your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, listen from the place where you live, from the heavens; and when you listen, forgive.
 
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 \v 31 If a man sins against his neighbor and is required to swear an oath, and if he comes and swears an oath before your altar in this house,
-\v 32 listen from the heavens and act. Judge your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing what he has done upon his own head. Declare the innocent not guilty and give to him according to his righteousness.
+\v 32 listen from the heavens and act. Judge your servants, condemning the wicked and bringing what he has done upon his own head. Declare the innocent not guilty and give to him according to his righteousness.
 
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-\v 33 When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn back to you, confess your name, pray, and request forgiveness from you in this temple—
+\v 33 When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn back to you, confess your name, pray, and seek your favor in this temple—
 \v 34 then please listen in the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel; bring them back to the land that you gave to their ancestors.
 
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 \v 37 Suppose there is famine in the land, or suppose that there is disease, blight or mildew, locusts or caterpillars; or suppose that an enemy attacks the city gates in their land, or that there is any plague or sickness—
-\v 38 and suppose then that prayers and requests are made by a person or by all your people Israel—each knowing the plague in his own heart as he spreads out his hands toward this temple.
+\v 38 and suppose then that prayers and humble requests are made by a person or by all your people Israel—each knowing the plague in his own heart as he spreads out his hands toward this temple.
 
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-\v 50 Forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and make them objects of compassion before their conquerors, and cause their conquerors to have compassion on them.
+\v 50 Forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, and cause their captors to have compassion on them.
 
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-\v 51 They are your people whom you have chosen, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.
-\v 52 May your eyes be open to the request of your servant and to the requests of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
+\v 51 They are your people and your inheritance, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.
+\v 52 May your eyes be open to the humble request of your servant and to the requests of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
 \v 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to belong to you and receive your promises, just as you explained by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh."
 
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 \v 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to live in all his ways and keep his commandments and his regulations and his statutes, which he commanded our fathers.
 
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-\v 59 Let these words I have spoken, by which I have made request before Yahweh, be near Yahweh our God day and night, so that he may help the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require;
+\v 59 Let these words I have spoken, by which I have sought the favor of Yahweh, be near Yahweh our God day and night, so that he may help the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require;
 \v 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God, and there is no other God!
 \v 61 Therefore let your heart be true to Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes and keep his commandments, as on this day."
 
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-\v 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes with joyful and glad hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, his servant, and to Israel, his people.
+\v 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their tents with joyful and glad hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, his servant, and to Israel, his people.
 
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-\v 1 After Solomon had finished building the house of Yahweh and the king's palace, and after he had accomplished all that he wanted to do,
+\v 1 After Solomon had finished building the house of Yahweh and the king's palace, and after he had accomplished all that he desired to do,
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+\v 3 Then Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your request for favor that you have made before me. I have set apart this house, which you have built, to myself, to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
 
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-\v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to test him with hard questions.
+\v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard the report about Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to test him with hard questions.
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-\v 7 I did not believe what I heard until I came here, and now my eyes have seen it. Not half was told me about your wisdom and wealth! You have exceeded the fame that I heard about.
+\v 7 I did not believe what I heard until I came here, and now my eyes have seen it. Not half was told me! In wisdom and wealth you have exceeded the report that I heard.
 
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-\v 29 Chariots were purchased out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver each, and horses for 150 shekels each. Many of these were then sold to all the kings of the Hittites and Aram.
+\v 29 Chariots were brought up from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver each, and horses for 150 shekels each. Many of these were then sold to all the kings of the Hittites and Aram.
 
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 \v 2 They were from the nations about which Yahweh said to the people of Israel, "You will not go among them to marry, neither will they come among you, for they will certainly turn your heart to their gods." In spite of this command, Solomon was affectionate toward these women in love.
 
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+\v 3 Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
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 \v 14 Then Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was from the royal family of Edom.
 \v 15 When David was in Edom, Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the dead, every man who had been killed in Edom.
 \v 16 Joab and all Israel remained there six months until he had killed every male in Edom.
-\v 17 But Hadad was taken with other Edomites by his father's servants into Egypt, since Hadad was still a little child.
+\v 17 But Hadad fled to Egypt with other Edomites, his father's servants, when Hadad was still a little child.
 
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 \v 23 God also raised up another adversary to Solomon, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
-\v 24 Rezon gathered men to himself and became captain over a small force, when David defeated the men of Zobah. Rezon's men went to Damascus and lived there, and Rezon controlled Damascus.
+\v 24 Rezon gathered men to himself and became captain over a marauding band when David slew the men of Zobah. Rezon's men went to Damascus and lived there, and Rezon reigned Damascus.
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-\v 26 Then Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, an official of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
+\v 26 Then Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
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+\v 28 Jeroboam was a man of great ability. Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, so he appointed him over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
 \v 29 At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed in a new garment and the two men were alone in the field.
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+\v 29 The prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to his own city to mourn and to bury him.
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-\v 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? I have been sent to you with bad news.
+\v 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? I have been sent to you with severe news.
 \v 7 Go, tell Jeroboam that Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I raised you from among the people to make you the leader over my people Israel.
 \v 8 I tore the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you, yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, to do only what was right in my eyes.
 
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-\v 10 Therefore, look, I will bring disaster on your family; I will cut off from you every male child in Israel, whether slave or free, and will completely remove your family, like someone who burns up dung until it is gone.
+\v 10 Therefore, look, I will bring disaster on your family; I will cut off from you every male child in Israel, whether slave or free, and will completely remove the family of Jeroboam like someone who burns up dung until it is gone.
 
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-\v 11 Anyone who belongs to your family who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the heavens, for I, Yahweh, have said it.'
+\v 11 Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the heavens, for I, Yahweh, have said it.'
 \v 12 So arise, wife of Jeroboam, and go back to your home; when your feet enter the city, the child Abijah will die.
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-\v 24 There were also cultic prostitutes in the land. They did the same despicable practices as the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
+\v 24 There were also cultic prostitutes in the land. They did the same disgusting practices as the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
-\v 2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maakah. She was the daughter of Abishalom.
+\v 2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maakah. She was the daughter of Abishalom.
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 \v 9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
-\v 10 He ruled forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
+\v 10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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+\v 3 See, I will consume Baasha and his family and I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
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 \v 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah; he reigned two years.
 \v 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now Elah was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.
-\v 10 Zimri went in, attacked him and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place.
+\v 10 Zimri went in, attacked him, and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.
 
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-\v 18 So his mother said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?"
+\v 18 So his mother said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my iniquity and to kill my son?"
 
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-\v 9 He went to a cave there and stayed in it. Then the word of Yahweh came to him and said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
+\v 9 He went to a cave there and prepared to stay overnight in it. Then the word of Yahweh came to him and said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
 \v 10 Elijah replied, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, destroyed your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. Now I, only I, am left and they are also trying to take my life."
 
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-\v 6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house and your servants' houses. They will seize with their own hands and take away whatever pleases their eyes.'"
+\v 6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house and your servants' houses. They will seize with their own hands and take away everything that delights your eyes.'"
 
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 \v 10 Then Ben-Hadad sent his reply to Ahab, and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if even the ashes of Samaria will be enough for all the people who follow me to have a handful each."
 
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-\v 12 Ben-Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings under him who were in their tents. Ben-Hadad commanded his men, "Line yourselves up in position for battle." So they prepared themselves in position of battle to attack the city.
+\v 11 The king of Israel answered and said, "Tell Ben-Hadad, 'No one who is girding on his armor should boast as if he were taking it off.'"
+\v 12 Ben-Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings under him who were in their tents. Ben-Hadad commanded his servants, "Line yourselves up in position for battle." So they prepared themselves in position of battle to attack the city.
 
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 \v 13 Then behold, a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Yahweh says, 'Have you seen this great army? Look, I will place it into your hand today, and you will know that I am Yahweh.'"
-\v 14 Ahab replied, "By whom?" Yahweh replied and said, "By the young officers who serve the governors of the districts." Then Ahab said, "Who will begin the battle?" Yahweh answered, "You."
-\v 15 Then Ahab mustered the young officers who served the governors of the districts. They numbered 232. After them he mustered all the soldiers, all the army of Israel; seven thousand in number.
+\v 14 Ahab replied, "By whom?" Yahweh replied and said, "By the young officers who serve the governors of the provinces." Then Ahab said, "Who will begin the battle?" Yahweh answered, "You."
+\v 15 Then Ahab mustered the young officers who served the governors of the provinces. They numbered 232. After them he mustered all the soldiers, all the army of Israel; seven thousand in number.
 
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 \v 16 They went out at noon. Ben-Hadad had been drinking himself drunk in his tent, he and the thirty-two lesser kings who were supporting him.
-\v 17 The young officers who served the governors of the districts went forward first. Then Ben-Hadad was informed by scouts that he had sent out, "Men are coming out from Samaria."
+\v 17 The young officers who served the governors of the provinces went forward first. Then Ben-Hadad was informed by scouts that he had sent out, "Men are coming out from Samaria."
 
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-\v 19 So the young officers who served the governors of the districts went out of the city and the army followed them.
+\v 19 So the young officers who served the governors of the provinces went out of the city and the army followed them.
 
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 \v 31 Ben-Hadad's servants said to him, "See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life."
-\v 32 So they put sackcloth on their waists and ropes around their heads and then went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad said, 'Please let me live.'" Ahab said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
+\v 32 So they girded sackcloth on their waists and ropes around their heads and then went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad said, 'Please let me live.'" Ahab said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
 
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-\v 35 A certain man, one of the sons of the prophets, said to one of his fellow prophets by the word of Yahweh, "Please hit me." But the man refused to hit him.
+\v 35 A certain man, one of the sons of the prophets, said to one of his companions by the word of Yahweh, "Please hit me." But the man refused to hit him.
 \v 36 Then the prophet said to his fellow prophet, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, as soon as you leave me, a lion will kill you." As soon as that man had left him, a lion came upon him and killed him.
 
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 \v 41 Then the prophet quickly removed the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.
-\v 42 The prophet said to the king, "Yahweh says, 'Because you have let go from your hand the man whom I had sentenced to death, your life will take the place of his life, and your people for his people.'"
+\v 42 The prophet said to the king, "Yahweh says, 'Because you have let go from your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, your life will take the place of his life, and your people for his people.'"
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 \v 7 So Jezebel his wife replied to him, "Do you not still rule the kingdom of Israel? Get up and eat; let your heart be happy. I will obtain for you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
 
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-\v 8 So Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and to the wealthy who sat with him in meetings, and who lived near Naboth.
+\v 8 So Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and to the nobles who sat with him in meetings, and who lived near Naboth.
 \v 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth above the people.
-\v 10 Also place two dishonest men with him and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king.'" Then take him out and stone him to death.
+\v 10 Also place two worthless men with him and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king.'" Then take him out and stone him to death.
 
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 \v 25 There was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife incited to sin.
-\v 26 Ahab did disgusting deeds for the idols he followed, just as all that the Amorites had done, those whom Yahweh had removed before the people of Israel.
+\v 26 Ahab behaved abhorrently by following idols, just as all that the Amorites had done, those whom Yahweh had removed before the people of Israel.
 
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-\v 10 Now Ahab the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on a throne, clothed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
+\v 10 Now Ahab the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on a throne, clothed in their robes, in a threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
 \v 11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, "Yahweh says this: 'With these you will push the Arameans until they are consumed.'"
 \v 12 Then all the prophets prophesied the same, saying, "Attack Ramoth Gilead and win, for Yahweh has given it into the hand of the king."
 
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-\v 17 So Micaiah said, "I saw all Israel scattered to the mountains, like sheep who have no shepherd, and Yahweh said, 'These have no shepherd. Let every man return to his house in peace.'"
+\v 17 So Micaiah said, "I saw all Israel scattered to the mountains, like sheep who have no shepherd, and Yahweh said, 'These have no master. Let every man return to his house in peace.'"
 
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-\v 27 Say to him, 'The king says, Put this man in prison and feed him with only a little bread and only a little water, until I come safely.'"
+\v 27 Say to him, 'The king says, Put this man in prison, and feed him the bread of affliction and the water of affliction until I come safely.'"
 \v 28 Then Micaiah said, "If you return safely, then Yahweh has not spoken by me." Then he added, "Listen to this, all you people."
 
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 \v 45 As for the other matters concerning Jehoshaphat, and the might that he showed, and how he waged war, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
-\v 46 He removed from the land the rest of the cultic prostitutes who had remained in the days of his father Asa.
+\v 46 He completely removed from the land the rest of the cultic prostitutes who had remained in the days of his father Asa.
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 \v 12 Elijah answered and said to them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." Again the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
 
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+\v 13 Yet again the king sent a third group of fifty warriors. This captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and sought his favor and said to him, "You, man of God, I ask you, let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.
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 \v 23 Then Elisha went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up the road, young boys came out of the city and mocked him; they said to him, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"
-\v 24 Elisha looked behind him and saw them; he called on Yahweh to curse them. Then two female bears came out of the woods and injured forty-two of the boys.
+\v 24 Elisha looked behind him and saw them; he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys apart.
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-\v 21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and they stood at the border.
+\v 21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come to fight against them, they summoned everyone who was old enough to gird on armor and older, and they stood at the border.
 \v 22 They awakened early in the morning and the sun reflected on the water. When the Moabites saw the water opposite them, it looked as red as blood.
 \v 23 They exclaimed, "This is blood! The kings have certainly been destroyed, and they have killed each other! So now, Moab, let us go plunder them!"
 
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-\v 26 Please run to meet her and say to her, 'Is everything alright with you and with your husband and child?'" She answered, "It is alright."
+\v 26 Please run to meet her and say to her, 'Is everything alright with you and with your husband and child?'" She answered, "It is all right."
 
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-\v 27 When she came to the man of God at the mountain, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is very upset, and Yahweh has hidden the problem from me, and has told me nothing."
+\v 27 When she came to the man of God at the mountain, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is very upset, and Yahweh has hidden the problem from me, and has told me nothing."
 
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-\v 29 Then Elisha said to Gehazi, "Dress for travel and take my staff in your hand. Go to her home. If you meet any man, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Lay my staff on the child's face."
+\v 29 Then Elisha said to Gehazi, "Gird your loins and take my staff in your hand. Go to her home. If you meet any man, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Lay my staff on the young man's face."
 
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-\v 30 But the mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha arose and followed her.
-\v 31 Gehazi hurried on ahead of them and laid the staff on the child's face, but the child did not speak or hear. So then Gehazi returned to meet Elisha and told him saying, "The child has not awakened."
+\v 30 But the mother of the young man said, "As Yahweh lives, and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha arose and followed her.
+\v 31 Gehazi hurried on ahead of them and laid the staff on the young man's face, but the young man did not speak or hear. So then Gehazi returned to meet Elisha and told him saying, "The young man has not awakened."
 
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-\v 32 When Elisha arrived at the house, the child was dead and was still on the bed.
-\v 33 So Elisha went in and shut the door on the child and himself and prayed to Yahweh.
+\v 32 When Elisha arrived at the house, the young man was dead and was still on the bed.
+\v 33 So Elisha went in and shut the door on the two of them and prayed to Yahweh.
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-\v 42 A man came from Baal Shalishah to the man of God and brought twenty loaves of barley bread in his sack from the new harvest, and fresh ears of grain. He said, "Give this to the people so they can eat."
+\v 42 A man came from Baal Shalishah to the man of God and brought twenty loaves of barley bread in his sack from the firstfruits and fresh ears of grain. He said, "Give this to the people so they can eat."
 \v 43 His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But Elisha said, "Give this to the people, so they can eat, because Yahweh says, 'They will eat and will have some left.'"
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-\v 2 The Arameans had gone out raiding in bands and had taken a little girl from the land of Israel. She served Naaman's wife.
+\v 2 The Arameans had gone out in raiding parties and had captured a little girl from the land of Israel. She served Naaman's wife.
 
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 \v 20 He had traveled only a short distance, when Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said to himself, "Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean by not receiving from his hands gifts that he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and receive something from him."
-\v 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he jumped down from his chariot to meet him and said, "Is everything alright?"
-\v 22 Gehazi said, "Everything is alright. My master has sent me, saying, 'See, now there have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.'"
+\v 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he jumped down from his chariot to meet him and said, "Is everything all right?"
+\v 22 Gehazi said, "Everything is all right. My master has sent me, saying, 'See, now there have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.'"
 
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 \v 1 Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh. This is what Yahweh says: 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'"
-\v 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?" Elisha replied, "See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it."
+\v 2 Then the officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?" Elisha replied, "See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it."
 
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-\v 9 Then they said to each other, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping quiet about it. If we wait until daybreak, punishment will overtake us. Now then, come, let us go and tell the king's household."
+\v 9 Then they said to each other, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping quiet about it. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now then, come, let us go and tell the king's household."
 \v 10 So they went and called the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, saying, "We went to the camp of the Arameans, but there was no one there, not the sound of anyone, but there were the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were."
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 \v 16 The people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, just as the word of Yahweh had said.
-\v 17 The king had ordered the captain on whose hand he had leaned to be in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him down in the gateway. He died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king had come down to him.
+\v 17 The king had ordered the officer on whose hand he had leaned to be in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him down in the gateway. He died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king had come down to him.
 
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-\v 19 That captain had answered the man of God and said, "See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?" Elisha had said, "See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it."
+\v 19 That officer had answered the man of God and said, "See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?" Elisha had said, "See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it."
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+\v 3 It came about at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to the king to cry to him for her house and for her land.
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+\v 5 Then as he was telling the king how Elisha had restored to life the child who was dead, the very woman whose son he had restored to life came to cry to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, "My master, king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."
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-\v 8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go meet the man of God, and consult with Yahweh through him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
-\v 9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift with him of every kind of good thing of Damascus, carried by forty camels. So Hazael came and stood before Elisha and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
+\v 8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go meet the man of God, and consult with Yahweh through him, saying, 'Will I revive from this sickness?'"
+\v 9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift with him of every kind of good thing of Damascus, carried by forty camels. So Hazael came and stood before Elisha and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I revive from this sickness?'"
 
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+\v 10 Elisha said to him, "Go, say to Ben-Hadad, 'You will surely revive,' but Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die."
 \v 11 Then Elisha stared at Hazael until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept.
 \v 12 Hazael asked, "Why do you weep, my master?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip open their pregnant women."
 
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-\v 14 Then Hazael left Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" He answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover."
+\v 14 Then Hazael left Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" He answered, "He told me that you would certainly revive."
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-\v 19 However, because of his servant David, Yahweh did not want to destroy Judah, since he had told him that he would always give him descendants.
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-\v 20 In Jehoram's days, Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.
-\v 21 Then Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded Jehoram, his chariot commanders rose up and attacked them during the night; but Jehoram's army ran away and went back to their homes.
+\v 20 In Jehoram's days, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.
+\v 21 Then Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded Jehoram, his chariot commanders rose up and attacked them during the night; but Jehoram's army ran away and went back to their tents.
 
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-\v 1 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Dress for travel, then take this little bottle of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth Gilead.
+\v 1 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Gird your loins, then take this little bottle of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth Gilead.
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-\v 8 For the whole family of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male child, whether he is a slave or a free person.
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-\v 11 Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, "Is everything alright? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" Jehu answered them, "You know the man and the kinds of things he says."
+\v 11 Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, "Is everything all right? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" Jehu answered them, "You know the man and the kinds of things he says."
 \v 12 They said, "That is a lie. Tell us." Jehu answered, "He said this and that to me, and he also said, 'This is what Yahweh says: I have anointed you as king over Israel.'"
-\v 13 Then each of them quickly took off his outer garment and put it under Jehu at the top of the steps. They blew the trumpet and said, "Jehu is king."
+\v 13 Then each of them quickly took off his outer garment and put it under Jehu at the top of the steps. They blew the ram's horn and said, "Jehu is king."
 
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-\v 26 'Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares Yahweh—and I will surely make you pay for it on this field—declares Yahweh. Now then, pick him up and throw him on this field, according to the word of Yahweh."
+\v 25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Pick him up and throw him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. Think about how when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh placed this prophecy against him:
+\v 26 'Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—this is Yahweh's declaration—and I will surely make you pay for it on this field—this is Yahweh's declaration. Now then, pick him up and throw him on this field, according to the word of Yahweh."
 
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 \v 10 Now you should certainly realize that no part of Yahweh's word, the word that he spoke concerning the family of Ahab, will fall to the ground, for Yahweh has done what he spoke about through his servant Elijah."
-\v 11 So Jehu killed all who remained in the family of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his important men, his close friends, and his priests, until none of them remained.
+\v 11 So Jehu killed all who remained in the family of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his important men, his close friends, and his priests, until no survivor remained to him.
 
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 \v 18 Then Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.
 \v 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers, and all his priests. Let no one be left out, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever does not come will not live." But Jehu did this deceitfully, with the intent to kill the worshipers of Baal.
-\v 20 Jehu said, "Set a time to have an assembly for Baal." So they announced it.
+\v 20 Jehu said, "Announce that there will be an assembly for Baal." So they announced it.
 
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 \v 21 Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. They came into the temple of Baal, and it was filled from one end to another.
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-\v 25 So then as soon as Jehu finished offering the burnt offering, he said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in and kill them. Let no one come out." So they killed them with the edge of the sword, and the guard and the captains threw them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal.
+\v 25 So then as soon as Jehu finished offering the burnt offering, he said to his bodyguards and to the officers, "Go in and kill them. Let no one come out." So they killed them with the edge of the sword, and the bodyguards and the officers threw them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal.
 \v 26 They dragged out the stone pillars that were in the house of Baal, and they burned them.
 \v 27 Then they broke down the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the house of Baal and made it a latrine, which it is to this day.
 \v 28 That is how Jehu destroyed Baal worship from Israel.
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 \v 4 In the seventh year, Jehoiada sent messages and brought the commanders of hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to himself, into the temple of Yahweh. He made a covenant with them, and he made them swear an oath in the house of Yahweh. Then he showed them the king's son.
 \v 5 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you must do. A third of you who come on the Sabbath will keep watch over the king's house,
-\v 6 and a third will be at the Sur Gate, and a third at the gate behind the guardhouse."
+\v 6 and a third will be at the Sur Gate, and a third at the gate behind the guardhouse. You shall guard the guardhouse of the temple."
 
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 \v 15 Then Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds who were over the army, saying, "Bring her out between the ranks. Anyone who follows her, kill him with the sword." For the priest had said, "Do not let her be killed in the house of Yahweh."
-\v 16 So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was killed.
+\v 16 So they seized her as she reached the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was killed.
 
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 \v 14 They gave this money to those who did the work of repairing the house of Yahweh.
 
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-\v 15 In addition, they did not require the money paid for repairs to be accounted for by the men who received it and paid it to the workmen, because these men were honest.
+\v 15 In addition, they did not require the money paid for repairs to be accounted for by the men who received it and paid it to the workmen, because these men practiced faithfulness.
 \v 16 But the money for the guilt offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the temple of Yahweh, because it belonged to the priests.
 
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 \v 3 The anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and into the hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael.
 \v 4 So Jehoahaz implored Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him because he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram was oppressing them.
-\v 5 So Yahweh gave Israel a rescuer, and they escaped from the hand of the Arameans, and the people of Israel began to live in their homes as they had before.
+\v 5 So Yahweh gave Israel a rescuer, and they escaped from the hand of the Arameans, and the people of Israel began to live in their tents as they had before.
 
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-\v 9 So Jehoahaz lay down with his ancestors, and they buried him in Samaria. Johoash his son became king in his place.
+\v 9 So Jehoahaz lay down with his ancestors, and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoash his son became king in his place.
 
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-\v 20 Then Elisha died, and they buried him. Now groups of Moabites invaded the land at the beginning of the year.
-\v 21 As they were burying a certain man, they saw a group of Moabites, so they threw the body into Elisha's grave. As soon as the man touched Elisha's bones, he revived and stood up on his feet.
+\v 20 Then Elisha died, and they buried him. Now marauding bands of Moabites invaded the land at the beginning of the year.
+\v 21 As they were burying a certain man, they saw a marauding band of Moabites, so they threw the body into Elisha's grave. As soon as the man touched Elisha's bones, he revived and stood up on his feet.
 
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 \v 11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel attacked and he and Amaziah king of Judah met each other face to face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
-\v 12 Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled home.
+\v 12 Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his tent.
 
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 \v 13 Jehoash king of Israel, captured Amaziah, king of Judah son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. He came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits in distance.
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 \v 19 They made a conspiracy against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. He fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.
 
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-\v 20 They brought him back on horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David.
+\v 20 They brought him back on horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem in the city of David.
 \v 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
 \v 22 It was Azariah who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah lay down with his ancestors.
 
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 \v 9 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
 
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-\v 10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, attacked him in Ibleam, and killed him. Then he became king in his place.
+\v 10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, attacked him in Ibleam, and put him to death. Then he became king in his place.
 \v 11 As for the other matters concerning Zechariah, they are written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel.
 \v 12 This was the word of Yahweh that he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." That is what happened.
 
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-\v 13 Shallum son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, and he reigned only one month in Samaria.
-\v 14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria. There he attacked Shallum son of Jabesh, in Samaria. He killed him and became king in his place.
+\v 13 Shallum son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned only one month in Samaria.
+\v 14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria. There he attacked Shallum son of Jabesh, in Samaria. He put him to death and became king in his place.
 
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 \v 19 Then Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, so that Pul's support might be with him to strengthen the kingdom of Israel in his hand.
-\v 20 Menahem exacted this money from Israel by requiring each of the wealthy men to pay fifty shekels of silver to him to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.
+\v 20 Menahem exacted this money from Israel by requiring each of the wealthy, powerful men to pay fifty shekels of silver to him to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.
 
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 \v 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali. He carried away the people to Assyria.
-\v 30 So Hoshea son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked him and killed him. Then he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
+\v 30 So Hoshea son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked him and put him to death. Then he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
 \v 31 As for the other matters concerning Pekah, all that he did, they are written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel.
 
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-\v 32 In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham son of Azariah, king of Judah began to reign.
+\v 32 In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah began to reign.
 \v 33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah; she was the daughter of Zadok.
 
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-\v 34 Jotham did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. He followed the example of all his father Azariah had done.
+\v 34 Jotham did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. He followed the example of all his father Uzziah had done.
 \v 35 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. Jotham built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
 \v 36 As for the other matters concerning Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
 
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 \v 1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah, began to reign.
 \v 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, as David his ancestor had done.
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 \v 5 Then Rezin, king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to attack. They besieged Ahaz, but they could not conquer him.
-\v 6 At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove the men of Judah out of Elath. Then the Arameans came to Elath where they have lived to this day.
+\v 6 At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove the Jews out of Elath. Then the Arameans came to Elath, where they have lived to this day.
 
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 \v 7 This captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. The people had been worshiping other gods
-\v 8 and walking in the practices of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel, and in the practices of the kings of Israel that they had done.
+\v 8 and walking in the customs of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel that they had done.
 
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 \v 15 They rejected his statutes and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and the covenant decrees that he had given to them. They followed useless practices and they themselves became useless. They followed the pagan nations who were around them, those that Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate.
 
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-\v 16 They ignored all the commandments of Yahweh their God. They made cast metal figures of two calves to worship. They made an Asherah pole, and they worshiped all the stars of the heavens and Baal.
+\v 16 They ignored all the commandments of Yahweh their God. They made cast metal figures of two calves to worship. They made an Asherah pole, and they worshiped all the host of the heavens and Baal.
 \v 17 They made their sons and daughters pass through the fire, they used divination and enchantments, they sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to anger.
 \v 18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. There was no one left but the tribe of Judah alone.
 
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-\v 19 Even Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, and they followed the practices that Israel had done.
+\v 19 Even Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, and they followed the customs that Israel had practiced.
 \v 20 So Yahweh rejected all the descendants of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hand of those who would take the possession as spoil, until he had cast them out of his sight.
 
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-\v 36 But Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, it is to him you will bow down, and it is to him that you will offer sacrifices.
+\v 36 But Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, it is him you will honor, it is to him you will bow down, and it is to him that you will sacrifice.
 \v 37 The statutes and the decrees, the law and the commandments that he wrote for you, you will keep them forever. So you must not fear other gods,
 \v 38 and the covenant that I have made with you, you will not forget; neither will you honor other gods.
 
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 \v 19 So the chief commander said to them to tell Hezekiah what the great king, the king of Assyria, said: "What is the source of your confidence?
-\v 20 You speak only useless words, saying there are allies and strength for war. In whom are you trusting, that you should rebel against me?
-\v 21 Look, you trust in the walking stick of this bruised reed of Egypt, but if a man leans on it, it will stick into his hand and pierce it. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is to anyone who trusts in him.
+\v 20 You speak only useless words, saying you have counsel and strength for war. In whom are you trusting, that you should rebel against me?
+\v 21 Look, you trust in Egypt, this walking stick of crushed reed; if a man leans on it, it will stick into his hand and pierce it. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is to anyone who trusts in him.
 
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 \v 27 But the chief commander said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"
 
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-\v 28 Then the chief commander stood and shouted in a loud voice in the Jews' language, saying, "Listen to the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
+\v 28 Then the chief commander stood and shouted in a loud voice in the language of Judah, saying, "Listen to the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
 \v 29 The king says, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my power.
 \v 30 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely rescue us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'
 
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 \v 20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, "Yahweh, the God of Israel says, 'Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.
 \v 21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him:
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-\q2 despises you and laughs you to scorn.
+\q2 despises you and mocks you.
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 \q2 shakes her head at you.
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-\v 22 Whom have you defied and insulted?
+\v 22 Whom have you defied and reviled?
 \q2 Against whom have you exalted your voice
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 \q2 Against the Holy One of Israel!
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 \v 31 For from Jerusalem a remnant will come out,
-\q2 from Mount Zion survivors will come. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.
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 \v 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the point of dying. So Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet came to him, and said to him, "Yahweh says, 'Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.'"
 \v 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
-\v 3 "Please, Yahweh, call to mind how I have faithfully walked before you with my whole heart, and how I have done what was good in your sight." Then Hezekiah wept loudly.
+\v 3 "Please, Yahweh, I beg you, call to mind how I have faithfully walked before you with my whole heart, and how I have done what was good in your sight." Then Hezekiah wept loudly.
 
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 \v 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
 \v 2 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
-\v 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he built altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them.
+\v 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he built altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the host of heaven and worshiped them.
 
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-\v 5 He built altars for all the stars of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
-\v 6 He caused his son to pass through the fire, he performed sorcery and divination and consulted with those who talked with the dead and with those who talked with spirits. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger.
+\v 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
+\v 6 He caused his son to pass through the fire, he performed sorcery and divination and consulted with sorcerers and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger.
 
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+\v 11 It came about that when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
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 \v 13 "Go and consult with Yahweh for me, and for the people and for all Judah, because of the words of this book that has been found. For great is the anger of Yahweh that has been kindled against us because our ancestors have not listened to the words of this book so as to obey all that was written concerning us."
 
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-\v 4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests under him, and the gatekeepers to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal and Asherah, and for all the stars of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields in the Kidron Valley and carried their ashes to Bethel.
-\v 5 He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had chosen to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon, to the planets, and to all the stars of heaven.
+\v 4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests under him, and the gatekeepers to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal and Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields in the Kidron Valley and carried their ashes to Bethel.
+\v 5 He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had chosen to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
 
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-\v 6 He brought out the Asherah pole from the temple of Yahweh, outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley and burned it there. He beat it to dust and threw that dust onto the graves of the common people.
-\v 7 He cleared out the rooms of the cultic prostitutes who were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women wove garments for Asherah.
+\v 6 He brought out the Asherah pole from the temple of Yahweh, outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley and burned it there. He crushed it to dust and threw that dust onto the graves of the common people.
+\v 7 He broke down the houses of the cultic prostitutes in the temple of Yahweh, where the women wove garments for Asherah.
 
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-\v 15 Josiah also completely destroyed the altar that was at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat (the one who made Israel to sin) had constructed. He also burned that altar and the high place and beat it to dust. He also burned the Asherah pole.
+\v 15 Josiah also completely destroyed the altar that was at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat (the one who made Israel to sin) had constructed. He also burned that altar and the high place and crushed it to dust. He also burned the Asherah pole.
 \v 16 As Josiah looked over the area, he noticed the graves that were on the hillside. He sent men to take the bones from the graves; then he burned them on the altar, which defiled it. This was according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God had spoken, the man who spoke of these things beforehand.
 
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-\v 24 Josiah also banished those who talked with the dead or with spirits. He also banished the fetishes, the idols, and all the disgusting things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so as to confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Yahweh.
+\v 24 Josiah also completely removed the sorcerers and spiritists. He also completely removed the fetishes, the idols, and all the disgusting things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so as to confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Yahweh.
 \v 25 Before Josiah, there had been no king like him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, all his soul, and all his might, who followed all the law of Moses. Nor did any king like Josiah arise after him.
 
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 \v 31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal; she was the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 \v 32 Jehoahaz did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like everything that his ancestors had done.
-\v 33 Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not reign in Jerusalem. Then Necho fined Judah one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
+\v 33 Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not reign in Jerusalem. Then Necho imposed a fine on Judah of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
 
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 \v 1 In Jehoiakim's days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked Judah; Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then Jehoiakim turned back and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
-\v 2 Yahweh sent against Jehoiakim bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites; he sent them against Judah to destroy it. This was in conformity with the word of Yahweh that had been spoken through his servants the prophets.
+\v 2 Yahweh sent against Jehoiakim marauding bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites; he sent them against Judah to destroy it. This was in conformity with the word of Yahweh that had been spoken through his servants the prophets.
 
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 \v 3 It was certainly at the mouth of Yahweh that this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, because of the sins of Manasseh, all that he did, \f + \ft Some ancient Hebrew copies read, \fqa It was certainly because of the wrath of Yahweh \fqa* . \f*
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-\v 10 At that time the army of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked Jerusalem and besieged the city.
-\v 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his soldiers were besieging it,
+\v 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked Jerusalem and besieged the city.
+\v 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
 \v 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers. The king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his own reign.
 
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 \v 14 He took into exile all Jerusalem, all the leaders, and all the mighty warriors, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one was left except the poorest people in the land.
 
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-\v 15 Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin into exile at Babylon, as well as the king's mother, wives, officers, and the chief men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
-\v 16 All the fighting men, seven thousand in number, and one thousand craftsmen and blacksmiths, all of them fit for fighting—the king of Babylon brought these men into exile at Babylon.
+\v 15 Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin into exile at Babylon, as well as the king's mother, wives, officers, and the nobles of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
+\v 16 All the fighting men, seven thousand in number, and one thousand craftsmen and blacksmiths, all of them strong and fit for fighting—the king of Babylon brought these men into exile at Babylon.
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 \v 8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a servant of the king of Babylon and commander of his bodyguards, came to Jerusalem.
 \v 9 He burned the house of Yahweh, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; also every important building in the city he burned.
-\v 10 As for all the walls around Jerusalem, all the army of the Babylonians who were under the commander of the bodyguard destroyed them.
+\v 10 As for all the walls around Jerusalem, all the army of the Chaldeans who were under the commander of the bodyguard destroyed them.
 
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 \v 13 As for the bronze pillars that were in the house of Yahweh, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke them into pieces and carried the bronze back to Babylon.
 \v 14 The pots, shovels, lamp trimmers, spoons, and all the utensils of bronze with which the priests had served in the temple—the Chaldeans took them all away.
-\v 15 The pots for removing ashes and the bowls that were made of gold, and those made of silver—the captain of the king's guard took them away as well.
+\v 15 The censers and the bowls that were made of gold and those made of silver—the captain of the king's guard took them away as well.
 
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 \v 24 Gedaliah made an oath to them and to their men, and said to them, "Do not be afraid of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you."
 
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-\v 25 But it happened that in the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, from the royal family, came with ten men and attacked Gedaliah. Gedaliah died, along with the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
-\v 26 Then all the people, from the least to the greatest, and the commanders of the soldiers, arose and went to Egypt, because they were afraid of the Babylonians.
+\v 25 But it happened that in the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, from the royal family, came with ten men and attacked Gedaliah. Gedaliah died, along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
+\v 26 Then all the people, from the least to the greatest, and the commanders of the soldiers, arose and went to Egypt, because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
 
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-\v 30 A regular food allowance was given to him every day for the rest of his life.
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-\v 43 These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
+\v 43 These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the people of Israel: Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
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-\v 2 Shobal was the father of Reaiah. Reaiah was the father of Jahath. Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were of the clans of the Zorathites.
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-\v 23 The half tribe of Manasseh lived in the land of Bashan as far as Baal Hermon and Senir (that is, Mount Hermon).
+\v 23 The sons of the half tribe of Manasseh lived in the land of Bashan as far as Baal Hermon and Senir (that is, Mount Hermon).
 \v 24 These were the heads of their clans: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
 
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-\v 39 Heman's colleague was Asaph, who stood at his right hand. Asaph was the son of Berekiah. Berekiah was the son of Shimea.
+\v 39 Heman's fellow worker was Asaph, who stood at his right hand. Asaph was the son of Berekiah. Berekiah was the son of Shimea.
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 \v 40 Shimea was the son of Michael. Michael was the son of Baaseiah. Baaseiah was the son of Malkijah.
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-\v 44 At Heman's left hand were his colleagues the sons of Merari. They included Ethan son of Kishi. Kishi was the son of Abdi. Abdi was the son of Malluk.
+\v 44 At Heman's left hand were his fellow workers the sons of Merari. They included Ethan son of Kishi. Kishi was the son of Abdi. Abdi was the son of Malluk.
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-\v 66 Some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the territory of the tribe of Ephraim.
+\v 66 Some of the clans of the descendants of Kohath were given cities from the territory of the tribe of Ephraim.
 \v 67 They gave them: Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,
 \v 68 Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth Horon with its pasturelands,
 \v 69 Aijalon with its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasturelands.
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 \v 29 The father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maakah, lived in Gibeon.
-\v 30 His firstborn was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
+\v 30 His firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
 \v 31 Gedor, Ahio, and Zeker.
 
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 \v 5 Among the Shelanites were Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.
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-\v 6 Among the descendants of Zerah was Jeuel. Their descendants numbered 690.
+\v 6 Among the descendants of Zerah was Jeuel. Their relatives numbered 690.
 
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-\v 17 The doorkeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their descendants. Shallum was their leader.
+\v 17 The doorkeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their leader.
 \v 18 Previously they stood guard at the king's gate on the east side for the camp of Levi's descendants.
 \v 19 Shallum son of Kore son of Ebiasaph, \f + \ft Ebiasaph is the same person referred to as \fqa Asaph \fqa* in 1 Chronicles 26:1. \f* son of Korah, and his relatives from his clan, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the guard service. They guarded the door to the tent, as their ancestors had guarded the camp of Yahweh, and they also had guarded the entrance.
 
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 \v 26 But the four leaders of the gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and with the storerooms in the house of God.
-\v 27 They would spend the night in their posts all around the house of God, for they were responsible for guarding it. They would open it each morning.
+\v 27 They would stay overnight in their posts all around the house of God, for they were responsible for guarding it. They would open it each morning.
 
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-\v 43 Moza was the father of Binea. Binea was the father of Rephaiah. Rephaiah was the father of Eleasah. Eleasah was the father of Azel.
+\v 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
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-\v 10 They put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head to the temple of Dagon.
+\v 10 They put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his skull to the temple of Dagon.
 
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 \v 10 These were the leaders David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, obeying the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
-\v 11 This is a list of David's mighty men: Jashobeam, the son of a Hakmonite, was commander of the officers \f + \ft The Hebrew could also read \fqa of the thirty \fqa* or \fqa of the three \fqa* . \f*. He killed three hundred men with his spear on one occasion.
+\v 11 This is a list of David's mighty men: Jashobeam, the son of a Hakmonite, was commander of the officers. \f + \ft The Hebrew could also read \fqa of the thirty \fqa* or \fqa of the three \fqa* \f* He killed three hundred men with his spear on one occasion.
 
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 \v 1 These were the men who came to David to Ziklag, while he was still banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish. They were among the soldiers, his helpers in battle.
-\v 2 They were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were Benjamites, Saul's fellow tribesmen.
+\v 2 They were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were Benjamites, Saul's kinsmen.
 
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 \v 20 When he went to Ziklag, the men of Manasseh who joined him were Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains over thousands of Manasseh.
 
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+\v 21 They helped David fight against the roving bands, for they were mighty warriors. Later they became commanders in the army.
 \v 22 Day after day, men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like the army of God.
 
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-\v 24 From Judah those who carried shield and spear were 6,800, armed for war.
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-\v 29 From Benjamin, Saul's tribe, were three thousand. Most of them had kept watch over the house of Saul until this time.
+\v 29 From Benjamin, Saul's kinsmen, were three thousand. Most of them had kept watch over the house of Saul until this time.
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 \v 1 David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.
 \v 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if this comes from Yahweh our God, let us send messengers everywhere to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites who are in their cities. Let them be told to come together with us.
 \v 3 Let us bring the ark of our God back to ourselves, for we did not seek his will in the days of Saul's reign."
-\v 4 The whole assembly agreed to do these things, because they seemed right in the eyes of all the people.
+\v 4 The whole assembly agreed to do these things, because in the eyes of all the people they seemed to be what was right.
 
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-\v 17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel and one of his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah. They also appointed kinsmen from Merari's descendants and Ethan son of Kushaiah.
+\v 17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel and one of his brothers, Asaph son of Berekiah. They also appointed kinsmen from Merari's descendants and Ethan son of Kushaiah.
 \v 18 With them were their kinsmen of second rank: Zechariah, \f + \ft Some ancient copies add the name or prefix, "ben," assuming perhaps the name of Zechariah's father was left out. \f* Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.
 
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-\v 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were guards for the ark.
+\v 22 Kenaniah, leader of the Levites, was the director of the singing  because he was a teacher of music.
+\v 23 Berekiah and Elkanah were guards for the ark.
 \v 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-Edom and Jehiah were guards for the ark.
 
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-\v 28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with joyful shouting, and with the sound of horns and trumpets, with cymbals, and with lutes and harps.
+\v 28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with joyful shouting, and with the sound of horns and rams' horns, with cymbals, and with lutes and harps.
 
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 \q and to Israel as an everlasting covenant.
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 \v 18 He said, "I will give you the land of Canaan
-\q as your share of your inheritance."
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 \v 38 Obed-Edom with those sixty-eight relatives were included. Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, along with Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.
-\v 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were to serve before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place in Gibeon.
+\v 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow workers were to serve before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place in Gibeon.
 
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-\v 7 When he mocked the army of Israel, Jehonadab son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
+\v 7 When he mocked the army of Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
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 \v 21 Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. Mahli's sons were Eleazar and Kish.
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-\v 22 Eleazar died without having any sons. He had only daughters. The sons of Kish married them.
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-\v 27 The sons of Merari from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.
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 \v 1 David and the leaders of the army selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with lutes and harps, and with cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:
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-\v 2 From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, \f + \ft This is the same person referred to in 1 Chronicles 25:14 as Jesarelah. \f* the sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the king's supervision.
+\v 2 From the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, \f + \ft This is the same person referred to in 1 Chronicles 25:14 as Jesarelah. \f* the sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the king's supervision.
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 \v 3 From the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, \f + \ft This is a variant of the name \fqa Izri \fqa* , which is found in 1 Chronicles 25:11, and refers to the same person. \f* Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six in all, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied, playing the harp for giving thanks and praising Yahweh.
 
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-\v 10 the third fell to Zaccur, his sons and his relatives, twelve persons in number;
+\v 10 the third fell to Zakkur, his sons and his relatives, twelve persons in number;
 \v 11 the fourth fell to Izri, \f + \ft This is a variant of \fqa Zeri \fqa* , found in 1 Chronicles 25:3, and refers to the same person. \f* his sons and his relatives, twelve persons in number;
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 \v 23 From the clans of Amram, the clans of Izhar, the clans of Hebron, and the clans of Uzziel:
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-\v 25 His relatives from the clan of Eliezer were his son Rehabiah, Rehabiah's son Jeshaiah, Jeshaiah's son Joram, Joram's son Zichri, and Zichri's son Shelomith.
+\v 25 His relatives from the clan of Eliezer were his son Rehabiah, Rehabiah's son Jeshaiah, Jeshaiah's son Joram, Joram's son Zikri, and Zikri's son Shelomith.
 
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-\v 1 This is the list of the Israelite family leaders, commanders of thousands and hundreds, as well as army officers who served the king in various ways. Each military division served month by month throughout the year. Each division had twenty-four thousand men.
+\v 1 This is the list of the family leaders of the people of Israel, commanders of thousands and hundreds, as well as army officers who served the king in various ways. Each military division served month by month throughout the year. Each division had twenty-four thousand men.
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-\v 14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly these things? Indeed, all things come from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours.
-\v 15 For we are sojourners and travelers before you, as all our ancestors were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope of remaining on earth.
+\v 14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we should have the ability to offer so willingly these things? Indeed, all things come from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours.
+\v 15 For we are sojourners and tenants before you, as all our ancestors were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope of remaining on earth.
 
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+\v 29 King David's accomplishments are written in the chronicles of Samuel the seer, in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the chronicles of Gad the seer.
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+\v 14 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, and with trumpets and rams' horns.
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+\v 16 King Asa also removed Maakah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made a disgusting figure out of an Asherah pole. He cut down the disgusting figure, crushed it to dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
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-\v 16 next to him Amasiah son of Zichri, who volunteered to serve Yahweh; and with him 200,000 mighty warriors.
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-\v 1 In the seventh year, Jehoiada showed his strength and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.
+\v 1 In the seventh year, Jehoiada showed his strength and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.
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 \v 6 For Pekah son of Remaliah in one day killed 120,000 soldiers in Judah and all of them were powerful men, because they had forsaken Yahweh the God of their ancestors.
 
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-\v 7 Zicri, a powerful man from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam, the official over the palace, and Elkanah, who was next to the king.
+\v 7 Zikri, a powerful man from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam, the official over the palace, and Elkanah, who was next to the king.
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 \v 11 Now then, listen to me: Send the captives back, those whom you have captured of your own brothers, for Yahweh's burning anger is on you."
 
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-\v 12 Then certain leaders of the people of Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came back from the war.
+\v 12 Then certain leaders of the people of Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came back from the war.
 \v 13 They said to them, "You must not bring the captives here, for you intend something that will bring on us sin against Yahweh, to add to our sins and trespasses, for our trespass is great, and there is burning anger against Israel."
 
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 \v 14 Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, in charge of distributing the offerings to Yahweh and the most holy offerings.
-\v 15 Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests. They filled offices of trust, in order to give these offerings to their brothers division by division, to both the important and the unimportant.
+\v 15 Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shekaniah, in the cities of the priests. They filled offices of trust, in order to give these offerings to their brothers division by division, to both the important and the unimportant.
 
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 \v 16 They also gave to those males three years old and up, who were recorded in the genealogies of their ancestors who entered the house of Yahweh, as required by the daily schedule, to do the work in their offices and their divisions. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa males three years old and up \fqa* , some modern translations have \fqa males thirty years old and up \fqa* . \f*
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 \v 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
-\v 6 In the Valley of Ben Hinnom he caused his sons to pass through the fire. He practiced sorcery, divination and he read omens, and he consulted with those who talked with the dead and with those who talked with spirits. Manasseh did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he provoked him to anger.
+\v 6 In the Valley of Ben Hinnom he caused his sons to pass through the fire. He practiced sorcery, divination and he read omens, and he consulted with sorcerers and spiritists. Manasseh did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he provoked him to anger.
 
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 \v 7 The carved figure he had made, he placed it in the house of God. It was about this house that God had spoken to David and Solomon his son; he had said, "It is in this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, that I will put my name forever.
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-\v 7 He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the carved images into powder, and cut apart all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
+\v 7 He broke down the altars, crushed the Asherah poles and the carved images into powder, and cut apart all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
 
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 \v 12 The men did the work faithfully. Their supervisors Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, from the sons of the Kohathites. Other Levites, all of whom were very good musicians, closely directed the workmen.
-\v 13 These Levites were in charge of those who carried building material and all other men who worked in any way. There were also Levites who were secretaries, administrators, and gate guards.
+\v 13 These Levites supervised those who carried building material and all other men who worked in any way. There were also Levites who were secretaries, administrators, and gate guards.
 
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 \v 2 Jehoahaz \f + \ft \fqa Jehoahaz \fqa* is written in Hebrew as \fqa Joahaz, \fqa* but refers to the same person. \f* was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
 
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-\v 3 The king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
+\v 3 The king of Egypt removed him at Jerusalem, and forced him to pay a fine on the land of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
 \v 4 The king of Egypt made Eliakim, who was the brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem (and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim). Then Necho took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt.
 
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 \v 36 The priests: descendants of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua: 973.
+\v 36 The priests: descendants of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua: 973.
 \v 37 Immer's descendants: 1,052.
 \v 38 Pashhur's descendants: 1,247.
 \v 39 Harim's descendants: 1,017.
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 \v 55 The descendants of Solomon's servants: descendants of Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,
-\v 56 Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel,
-\v 57 Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth Hazzebaim, and Ami.
+\v 56 Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,
+\v 57 Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazzebaim, and Ami.
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-\v 61 Also, from the priest's descendants: the descendants of Habaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who took his wife from the daughters of Barzillai of Gilead and was called by their name).
+\v 61 Also, from the priest's descendants: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who took his wife from the daughters of Barzillai of Gilead and was called by their name).
 \v 62 They searched for their genealogical records, but could not find them, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
 \v 63 So the governor told them they must not eat any of the holy sacrifices until a priest with Urim and Thummim approved.
 
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 \v 8 Then in the second month of the second year after they came to the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and those who came from captivity back to Jerusalem began the work. They assigned the Levites twenty years old and older to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh.
-\v 9 Jeshua and his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, who were descendants of Hodaviah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers-all of them were Levites-joined together in overseeing those working on the house of God. \f + \ft There are some textual issues here regarding the phrase \fqa the sons of Judah \fqa* or \fqa the descendants of Hodaviah \fqa* and other matters. \f*
+\v 9 Jeshua and his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons (who were descendants of Hodaviah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers-all of them were Levites-joined together in overseeing those working on the house of God. \f + \ft There are some textual issues here regarding the phrase \fqa the sons of Judah \fqa* or \fqa the descendants of Hodaviah \fqa* and other matters. \f*
 
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 \v 10 The builders laid a foundation for the temple of Yahweh. This enabled the priests to stand in their garments with trumpets, and the Levites, sons of Asaph, to praise Yahweh with cymbals, just as the hand of David, king of Israel had commanded.
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 \v 20 The priests and Levites all purified themselves; all of them were clean. Then they slaughtered the Passover sacrifices for all those who had been in exile, including themselves.
 
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-\v 21 The Israelite people who ate some of the Passover meat were those who had returned from exile and had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land and sought Yahweh, the God of Israel.
+\v 21 The people of Israel who ate some of the Passover meat were those who had returned from exile and had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land and sought Yahweh, the God of Israel.
 \v 22 They joyfully celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days, for Yahweh had brought them joy and turned the heart of Assyria's king to strengthen their hands in the work of his house, the house of the God of Israel.
 
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 \v 1 These are the leaders of their ancestors' families, and this is the genealogy of those who left Babylon with me during the reign of King Artaxerxes.
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 \v 2 Of the descendants of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the descendants of David, Hattush.
-\v 3 Of the descendants of Shecaniah, who was from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him there were 150 males listed in his genealogy.
+\v 3 Of the descendants of Shekaniah, who was from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him there were 150 males listed in his genealogy.
 
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 \v 13 Those of the descendants of Adonikam came later. These were their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah and with them came sixty males.
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-\v 14 Of the descendants of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur and with him were listed seventy males.
+\v 14 Of the descendants of Bigvai, Uthai and Zakkur and with him were listed seventy males.
 
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 \v 28 Among the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
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-\v 29 Among the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluk, Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal Jeremoth. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa Bani \fqa* , some modern translations have \fqa Bigvai \fqa* . \f*
+\v 29 Among the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluk, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa Bani \fqa* , some modern translations have \fqa Bigvai \fqa* . \f*
 
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 \v 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brother priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors in place. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred and as far as the Tower of Hananel.
-\v 2 Next to him the men of Jericho worked, and next to them Zaccur son of Imri worked.
+\v 2 Next to him the men of Jericho worked, and next to them Zakkur son of Imri worked.
 
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 \v 3 The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They made beams for it, and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
-\v 4 Meremoth repaired the next section. He is the son of Uriah son of Hakkoz. Next to them Meshullam repaired. He is the son of Berechiah son of Meshezabel. Next to them Zadok repaired. He is the son of Baana.
+\v 4 Meremoth repaired the next section. He is the son of Uriah son of Hakkoz. Next to them Meshullam repaired. He is the son of Berekiah son of Meshezabel. Next to them Zadok repaired. He is the son of Baana.
 \v 5 Next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles refused to do the labor ordered by their supervisors.
 
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 \v 28 The priests repaired above the Horse Gate, each opposite his own house.
-\v 29 After them Zadok son of Immer repaired the section opposite his own house. Then after him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate, repaired.
-\v 30 After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berechiah repaired opposite his living chambers.
+\v 29 After them Zadok son of Immer repaired the section opposite his own house. Then after him Shemaiah son of Shekaniah, the keeper of the east gate, repaired.
+\v 30 After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berekiah repaired opposite his living chambers.
 
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 \v 17 and those who were building the wall. Those who carried burdens carried their loads such that each did his work with one hand, and with the other hand he held his weapon.
-\v 18 Every builder wore his sword girded at his side, and that is how he worked. The one who sounded the trumpet stayed beside me.
+\v 18 Every builder wore his sword girded at his side, and that is how he worked. The one who sounded the ram's horn stayed beside me.
 
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 \v 19 I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.
-\v 20 You must rush to the place where you hear the trumpet sound and assemble there. Our God will fight for us."
+\v 20 You must rush to the place where you hear the ram's horn sound and assemble there. Our God will fight for us."
 
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 \v 17 At this time the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came to them.
-\v 18 For there were many in Judah who were bound by an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.
+\v 18 For there were many in Judah who were bound by an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shekaniah son of Arah. His son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.
 \v 19 They also spoke to me about his good deeds and reported my words back to him.
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-\v 43 The Levites: The descendants of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of Binnui, and of Hodevah, 74. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa of Binnui, and of Hodevah \fqa* , some modern translations have \fqa the descendants of Hodevah \fqa* . \f*
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+\v 43 The Levites: The descendants of Jeshua, through the descendants of Kadmiel through the line of Hodaviah, 74.
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 \v 57 The descendants of Solomon's servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
 \v 58 the descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel,
-\v 59 the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the descendants of Amon.
+\v 59 the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pokereth-Hazzebaim, the descendants of Amon.
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 \v 11 Mika, Rehob, Hashabiah,
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-\v 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
+\v 12 Zakkur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
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 \v 7 These are the descendants of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam son of Joed son of Pedaiah son of Kolaiah son of Maaseiah son of Ithiel son of Jeshaiah,
 \v 8 and those following him, Gabbai and Sallai, 928 men. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa those following him \fqa* , some scholars suggest \fqa his brothers \fqa* because that construction appears \fqa* in Nehemiah 11:13, 14, 17, and 19 . \f*
-\v 9 Joel son of Zichri was their overseer, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second in command over the city.
+\v 9 Joel son of Zikri was their overseer, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second in command over the city.
 
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-\v 29 Enrimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
+\v 29 En Rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
 \v 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, and in Lachish its fields and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
 
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 \v 2 Amariah, Malluk, Hattush,
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-\v 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, and Meremoth.
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 \v 16 Zechariah was the leader of Iddo, Meshullam was the leader of Ginnethon, and
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-\v 17 Zichri was the leader of Abijah; Piltai was the leader of Miniamin and Moadiah.
+\v 17 Zikri was the leader of Abijah; Piltai was the leader of Miniamin and Moadiah.
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 \v 32 Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them,
 \v 33 and after them went Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
 \v 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,
-\v 35 and some of the priests' sons with trumpets, and Zechariah son of Jonathan son of Shemaiah son of Mattaniah son of Micaiah son of Zaccur son of Asaph.
+\v 35 and some of the priests' sons with trumpets, and Zechariah son of Jonathan son of Shemaiah son of Mattaniah son of Micaiah son of Zakkur son of Asaph.
 
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 \v 12 Then all Judah brought in the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the storehouses.
-\v 13 I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and from the Levites, Pedaiah. Next to them was Hanan son of Zaccur son of Mattaniah, for they were counted as trustworthy. Their duties were to distribute the supplies to their associates.
+\v 13 I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and from the Levites, Pedaiah. Next to them was Hanan son of Zakkur son of Mattaniah, for they were counted as trustworthy. Their duties were to distribute the supplies to their associates.
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 \v 1 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. He went out into the middle of the city, and cried out with a loud and a bitter cry.
 \v 2 He went up only as far as the king's gate, because no one was allowed to go through it clothed in sackcloth.
-\v 3 In every province, wherever the king's command and decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and lamenting. Many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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 \q or, 'Offer me a bribe from your wealth'
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 \v 23 or, 'Save me from my adversary's hand'
-\q or, 'Ransom me from the hand of my oppressors'?
+\q or, 'Ransom me from the hand of oppressors'?
 
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 \v 14 the food in his intestines turns bitter;
-\q it becomes the poison of vipers inside him.
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 \q there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures.
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 \v 3 They drive away the donkey of those without fathers;
-\q they take the widow's ox as security.
+\q they take the widow's ox as a pledge.
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 \v 12 From out of the city the dying groan,
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-\q But God does not ascribe blame
+\q But God does not charge anyone with wrongdoing.
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-\q and that disaster is for doers of wickedness.
+\q and that disaster is for those who behave wickedly.
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 \q and count all my steps?
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-\q by hiding my guilt inside my tunic
+\q by hiding my guilt inside my bosom
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 \q because the contempt of the families terrified me,
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 \q If only I had the indictment that my opponent has written!
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 \v 36 Surely I would carry it openly on my shoulder;
-\q I would put it on like a crown.
+\q I would bind it on myself like a crown.
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 \v 37 I would declare to him an accounting for my steps;
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-\v 25 Then his flesh will become fresher than a child's;
+\v 25 Then his flesh will become fresher than a youth's;
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 \v 7 What man is like Job,
 \q who drinks up mockery like water,
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-\v 8 who goes around in the company of those who do evil,
+\v 8 who goes around in the company of those who behave wickedly,
 \q and who walks with wicked men?
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 \v 22 There is no darkness and there is no deep shadow
-\q where the doers of iniquity may hide themselves.
+\q where those who behave wickedly may hide themselves.
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 \v 14 The earth is changed in appearance like clay changes under a seal;
 \q all things on it stand out clearly like the folds of a piece of clothing.
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-\v 15 From wicked people their 'light' is taken away;
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-\q at the trumpet's sound, he cannot stand in one place.
+\q at the sound of the ram's horn, he cannot stand in one place.
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-\v 25 Whenever the trumpet sounds, he says, 'Aha!'
+\v 25 Whenever the ram's horn sounds, he says, 'Aha!'
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-\v 10 When Job prayed for his friends, Yahweh restored his fortunes. Yahweh gave him twice as much as he had possessed before.
+\v 10 When Job prayed for his friends, Yahweh reversed his captivity. Yahweh gave him twice as much as he had possessed before.
 \v 11 Then all Job's brothers, and all his sisters, and all who knew him before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the disasters that Yahweh had brought upon him, and each of them gave Job a piece of silver and a ring of gold.
 
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 \v 1 Why are the nations in turmoil,
-\q and why do the peoples make plots that will fail?
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-\v 10 So now, you kings, be warned;
-\q be corrected, you rulers of the earth.
+\v 10 So now, you kings, be prudent;
+\q be corrected, you judges of the earth.
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 \q and rejoice with trembling.
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 \q Many have risen against me.
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 \v 2 Many say about me,
-\q "There is no help for him from God."
+\q "There is no deliverance for him from God."
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 \v 2 You people, how long will you turn my honor into shame?
-\q How long will you love that which is worthless and seek after lies?
+\q How long will you love what is worthless and seek after lies?
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 \d For the chief musician; with wind instruments. A psalm of David.
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-\v 1 Listen to my call to you, Yahweh;
+\v 1 Give ear to my words, Yahweh;
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 \q
-\v 4 Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil;
+\v 4 Certainly you are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;
 \q evil people will not be your guests.
 \q
 \v 5 The arrogant will not stand in your presence;
 \q you hate all who behave wickedly.
 \q
 \v 6 You will destroy liars;
-\q Yahweh despises violent and deceitful men.
+\q Yahweh abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
 
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 \q
@@ -248,14 +248,14 @@
 \q
 \v 6 I am weary with my groaning.
 \q All night I drench my bed with tears;
-\q I wash my couch away with my tears.
+\q I dissolve my couch with my tears.
 \q
 \v 7 My eyes grow dim from grief;
 \q they grow weak because of all my adversaries.
 
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 \q
-\v 8 Get away from me, all you who practice iniquity;
+\v 8 Get away from me, all you who behave wickedly;
 \q for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.
 \q
 \v 9 Yahweh has heard my appeal for mercy;
@@ -278,14 +278,14 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
-\q and there is guilt on my hands—
+\q and there is injustice on my hands—
 \q
 \v 4 if I have done evil to him who was at peace with me,
-\q or senselessly harmed my enemy without cause, then hear my words.
+\q or harmed my enemy for no reason—
 
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 \q
-\v 5 Then let my enemy pursue my life and overtake me;
+\v 5 then let my enemy pursue my life and overtake me;
 \q let him trample my life to the ground
 \q and lay my honor in the dust.
 \qs Selah\qs*
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
 \q stand up against the rage of my enemies;
 \q wake up for my sake and carry out the righteous decrees that you have commanded for them.
 \q
-\v 7 The countries are assembled all around you;
+\v 7 The peoples are assembled all around you;
 \q take once more your rightful place over them.
 
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@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
 \v 12 If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword
 \q and will prepare his bow for battle.
 \q
-\v 13 He prepares to use weapons against him;
+\v 13 He prepares to use deadly weapons against him;
 \q he makes his arrows flaming shafts.
 
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@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
 \q who conceives destructive plans, who gives birth to harmful lies.
 \q
 \v 15 He digs a pit and hollows it out
-\q and then falls into the hole he has made.
+\q and then falls into the pit he has made.
 \q
 \v 16 His own destructive plans return to his own head,
 \q for his violence comes down on his own head.
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 17 I will give thanks to Yahweh for his justice;
-\q I will sing praise to Yahweh Most High.
+\q I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
 
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 \c 8
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 3 When I look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made,
+\v 3 When I look up at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
 \q the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
 \q
 \v 4 Of what importance is the human race that you notice them,
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh; see how I am oppressed by those who hate me,
+\v 13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh; see my affliction by those who hate me,
 \q you who can snatch me from the gates of death.
 \q
 \v 14 Oh, that I might proclaim all your praise.
@@ -481,8 +481,8 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 4 The wicked man has a raised face; he does not seek God.
-\q He never thinks about God because he does not care at all about him.
+\v 4 The wicked in the haughtiness of his face does not seek God.
+\q All his thoughts are that there is no God.
 \q
 \v 5 He is secure at all times,
 \q but your righteous decrees are too high for him;
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten;
-\q he covers his face; he will not bother to look."
+\q he covers his face; he will never see it."
 \q
 \v 12 Arise, Yahweh! Lift up your hand, God!
 \q Do not forget the oppressed.
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@
 \m
 \d For the chief musician. A psalm of David.
 \q
-\v 1 How long, Yahweh, will you keep forgetting about me?
+\v 1 How long, Yahweh, will you forget me? Forever?
 \q How long will you hide your face from me?
 \q
 \v 2 How long must I worry
@@ -660,14 +660,14 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 4 Do they not know anything, those who commit iniquity,
+\v 4 Do they not know anything, those who behave wickedly,
 \q those who eat up my people as they eat bread,
 \q but who do not call on Yahweh?
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 5 They tremble with dread,
-\q for God is with the righteous assembly!
+\q for God is with the righteous generation!
 \q
 \v 6 You want to humiliate the poor person
 \q even though Yahweh is his refuge.
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 4 The worthless person is despised in his eyes,
+\v 4 The abhorrent is despised in his eyes,
 \q but he honors those who fear Yahweh.
 \q He swears to his own disadvantage and does not take back his promises.
 \q
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@
 \q
 \v 5 Yahweh, you are my chosen portion and my cup. You hold onto my lot.
 \q
-\v 6 Measuring lines have been laid for me in pleasant places; surely a pleasing inheritance is mine.
+\v 6 Measuring lines have been laid for me in pleasant places; surely a beautiful inheritance is mine.
 
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 \q
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@
 \q
 \v 8 Protect me like the apple of your eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings
 \q
-\v 9 from the presence of the wicked ones who assault me, my enemies who surround me.
+\v 9 from the presence of the wicked ones who deal violently with me, my enemies who surround me.
 \q
 \v 10 They have no mercy on anyone; their mouths speak with pride.
 
@@ -818,14 +818,14 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 6 In my distress I called to Yahweh; I called for help to my God. He heard my voice from his temple;
-\q my call for help went into his presence; it went into his ears.
+\q my cry for help went into his presence; it went into his ears.
 
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 \q
 \v 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains also trembled
 \q and were shaken because God was angry.
 \q
-\v 8 Smoke went up from out of his nostrils, and blazing fire came out of his mouth. Coals were ignited by it.
+\v 8 Smoke went up from out of his nostrils, and blazing fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
 
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 \q
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@
 \q
 \v 22 For all his righteous decrees have been before me; as for his statutes, I have not turned away from them.
 \q
-\v 23 I have also been innocent before him, and I have kept myself from sin.
+\v 23 I have also been innocent before him, and I have kept myself from iniquity.
 \q
 \v 24 Therefore Yahweh has restored me because of my righteousness, because my hands were clean before his eyes.
 
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 27 For you save afflicted people, but you bring down those with proud, uplifted eyes!
+\v 27 For you save afflicted people, but you abase those with proud, uplifted eyes!
 \q
 \v 28 For you give light to my lamp; Yahweh my God lights up my darkness.
 \q
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@
 \d For the chief musician. A psalm of David.
 \q
 \v 1 The heavens declare the glory of God,
-\q and the skies make his handiwork known!
+\q and the skies make known the work of his hands!
 \q
 \v 2 Day after day speech pours out;
 \q night after night it reveals knowledge.
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@
 \q Then I will be perfect,
 \q and I will be innocent from many transgressions.
 \q
-\v 14 May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart
+\v 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
 \q be acceptable in your sight,
 \q Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.
 
@@ -1045,12 +1045,12 @@
 \q
 \v 6 Now I know that Yahweh will rescue his anointed one;
 \q he will answer him from his holy heaven
-\q with the strength of his right hand that can rescue him.
+\q with the saving strength of his right hand.
 
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 \q
 \v 7 Some trust in chariots and others in horses,
-\q but we call on Yahweh our God.
+\q but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.
 \q
 \v 8 They will be brought down and fall,
 \q but we will rise and stand upright!
@@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@
 \q
 \v 29 All the prosperous people of the earth will feast and will worship;
 \q all those who are descending into the dust will bow before him,
-\q those who cannot preserve their own lives.
+\q those who cannot preserve their own souls alive.
 
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 \q
@@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 3 He brings back my life;
-\q he guides me along right paths for his name's sake.
+\q he guides me along paths that are right for his name's sake.
 
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 \q
@@ -1377,7 +1377,7 @@
 \q to those who keep his covenant and his solemn commands.
 \q
 \v 11 For your name's sake, Yahweh,
-\q pardon my sin, for it is great.
+\q pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
 
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 \q
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@
 \q forgive all my sins.
 \q
 \v 19 See my enemies, for they are many;
-\q they hate me with cruel hatred.
+\q they hate me with violent hatred.
 
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 \q
@@ -1458,7 +1458,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 9 Do not sweep me away with sinners,
-\q or my life with people who are bloodthirsty,
+\q or my life with men of bloodshed,
 \q
 \v 10 in whose hands there is a plot,
 \q and whose right hand is full of bribes.
@@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, those who do iniquity,
+\v 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, those who behave wickedly,
 \q who speak peace with their neighbors but have evil in their hearts.
 \q
 \v 4 Give them what their deeds deserve and repay them what their wickedness demands;
@@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@
 \q
 \v 2 Yahweh my God, I cried to you for help, and you healed me.
 \q
-\v 3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you have kept me alive from going down to the grave.
+\v 3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you have kept me alive from going down to the pit.
 
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 \q
@@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 9 What advantage is there in my death, if I go down to the grave? Will the dust praise you? Will it declare your trustworthiness?
+\v 9 What advantage is there in my blood, if I go down to the grave? Will the dust praise you? Will it declare your trustworthiness?
 \q
 \v 10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me! Yahweh, be my helper.
 
@@ -1714,10 +1714,10 @@
 \q
 \v 10 For my life is weary with sorrow
 \q and my years with groaning.
-\q My strength fails because of my sin,
+\q My strength fails because of my iniquity,
 \q and my bones are wasting away.
 \q
-\v 11 Because of all my enemies, people disdain me;
+\v 11 Because of all my enemies, I have become a reproach;
 \q my neighbors are appalled at my situation,
 \q and those who know me are horrified.
 \q Those who see me in the street run from me.
@@ -1760,14 +1760,14 @@
 \q before all the children of mankind!
 \q
 \v 20 In the shelter of your presence, you hide them from the plots of men.
-\q You hide them in a shelter from the violence of tongues.
+\q You hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
 
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 \q
 \v 21 Blessed be Yahweh,
 \q for he showed me his marvelous covenant faithfulness when I was in a besieged city.
 \q
-\v 22 Though I said in my haste,
+\v 22 Though I said in my alarm,
 \q "I am cut off from your eyes,"
 \q yet you heard my plea for help
 \q when I cried to you.
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@
 \q Yahweh protects the faithful,
 \q but he pays back the arrogant in full.
 \q
-\v 24 Be strong and confident,
+\v 24 Be strong and let your heart take courage,
 \q all you who trust in Yahweh for help.
 
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@@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@
 \qs Selah\qs*
 \q
 \v 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go.
-\q I will instruct you with my eye upon you.
+\q I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
 
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 \q
@@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 4 For Yahweh's word is upright,
-\q and everything he does is fair.
+\q and all his deeds are done in faithfulness.
 \q
 \v 5 He loves righteousness and justice.
 \q The earth is full of Yahweh's covenant faithfulness.
@@ -1969,7 +1969,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 12 What man is there who desires life
+\v 12 What man is there who delights in life
 \q and loves many days,
 \q that he may see good?
 \q
@@ -2026,7 +2026,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 4 May those who seek my life be shamed and dishonored.
-\q May those who plan to harm me be turned back and confounded.
+\q May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed.
 \q
 \v 5 May they be as chaff before the wind,
 \q as the angel of Yahweh drives them away.
@@ -2062,9 +2062,9 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 13 But, when they were sick, I wore sackcloth;
-\q I fasted for them
-\q with my head bowed on my chest.
+\v 13 As for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
+\q I fasted for them,
+\q and my prayer returned to my bosom.
 \q
 \v 14 I went about in grief as for my brother;
 \q I bent down in mourning as for my mother.
@@ -2082,7 +2082,7 @@
 \q
 \v 17 Lord, how long will you look on?
 \q Rescue my soul from their destructive attacks,
-\q my life from the lions.
+\q my only life from the lions.
 \q
 \v 18 Then I will thank you in the great assembly;
 \q I will praise you among many people.
@@ -2135,11 +2135,11 @@
 \q there is no fear of God in his eyes.
 \q
 \v 2 For he comforts himself,
-\q thinking that his sin will not be discovered and be hated.
+\q thinking that his iniquity will not be discovered and be hated.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 3 His words are sinful and deceitful;
+\v 3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
 \q he does not want to be wise and do good.
 \q
 \v 4 While he lies in bed, he plans ways to sin;
@@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 5 Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, reaches to the heavens;
-\q your loyalty reaches to the clouds.
+\q your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
 \q
 \v 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
 \q your judgments are like the great deep.
@@ -2174,8 +2174,8 @@
 \v 11 Do not let the foot of the arrogant man come near to me.
 \q Do not let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
 \q
-\v 12 Over there the evildoers have fallen;
-\q they are knocked down and are not able to get up.
+\v 12 Over there those who behave wickedly have fallen;
+\q they have been pushed down and are not able to get up.
 
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 \c 37
@@ -2260,7 +2260,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 20 But evil men will perish.
-\q Yahweh's enemies will be like the glory of the pastures;
+\q Yahweh's enemies will be like the splendor of the pastures;
 \q they will be consumed and disappear in the smoke.
 \q
 \v 21 The wicked person borrows but does not repay,
@@ -2307,7 +2307,7 @@
 \v 31 The law of his God is in his heart;
 \q his feet will not slip.
 \q
-\v 32 The wicked person watches the righteous person
+\v 32 The wicked person spies on the righteous person
 \q and seeks to kill him.
 \q
 \v 33 Yahweh will not abandon him into the evil person's hand
@@ -2332,13 +2332,13 @@
 \v 37 Observe the man of integrity, and mark the upright;
 \q there is a good future for a man of peace.
 \q
-\v 38 Sinners will be totally destroyed;
+\v 38 Rebels will be totally destroyed;
 \q the future for the wicked man is cut off.
 
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 \q
 \v 39 Salvation of the righteous comes from Yahweh;
-\q he protects them in the times of trouble.
+\q he is their place of safety in the times of trouble.
 \q
 \v 40 Yahweh helps them and rescues them.
 \q He rescues them from evil men and saves them
@@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@
 \q and my groanings are not hidden from you.
 \q
 \v 10 My heart pounds, my strength fades,
-\q and my eyesight dims.
+\q and the light of my eyes, even that is not with me.
 
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 \q
@@ -2409,7 +2409,7 @@
 \v 15 Surely I wait for you, Yahweh;
 \q you will answer, Lord my God.
 \q
-\v 16 I say this so that my enemies will not gloat over me.
+\v 16 I say this so that my enemies will not rejoice over me.
 \q If my foot slips, they will do terrible things to me.
 
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@@ -2418,7 +2418,7 @@
 \q and I am in constant pain.
 \q
 \v 18 I confess my guilt;
-\q I am concerned about my sin.
+\q I am anxious about my sin.
 
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 \q
@@ -2488,17 +2488,18 @@
 \v 10 Stop wounding me;
 \q I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand.
 \q
-\v 11 When you discipline people for sin,
+\v 11 When you discipline people for iniquity,
 \q you consume the things they desire like a moth;
 \q surely all people are nothing but vapor.
 \qs Selah\qs*
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 12 Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me;
-\q listen to my weeping!
-\q Do not be deaf to me,
-\q for I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee like all my ancestors were.
+\v 12 Hear my prayer, Yahweh,
+\q and give ear to my cry for help;
+\q do not be deaf to my tears!
+\q for I am like a foreigner with you,
+\q a sojourner like all my ancestors were.
 \q
 \v 13 Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again
 \q before I die."
@@ -2567,11 +2568,11 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 14 Let them be ashamed and completely disappointed
-\q who pursue my life to take it away.
+\q who pursue my life to sweep it away.
 \q Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor,
 \q those who delight in hurting me.
 \q
-\v 15 Let them be shocked because of their shame,
+\v 15 Let them be appalled because of their shame,
 \q those who say to me, "Aha, aha!"
 
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@@ -2609,7 +2610,7 @@
 \q 'When will he die and his name perish?'
 \q
 \v 6 If my enemy comes to see me, he says worthless things;
-\q his heart gathers up my disaster for itself;
+\q his heart gathers up wickedness for itself;
 \q when he goes away from me, he tells others about it.
 
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@@ -2699,7 +2700,8 @@
 \c 43
 \m
 \q
-\v 1 Bring me justice, God, and plead my cause against a nation that is not faithful.
+\v 1 Bring me justice, God, and plead my case against a nation that is not faithful.
+\q Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 
 \q
 \v 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
 \q Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
@@ -2764,7 +2766,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 9 But now you have thrown us off and brought us dishonor,
+\v 9 But now you have rejected us and brought us dishonor,
 \q and you do not go out with our armies.
 \q
 \v 10 You make us turn back from the adversary;
@@ -2815,7 +2817,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 23 Awake, why do you sleep, Lord?
-\q Arise, do not throw us off permanently.
+\q Arise, do not reject us forever.
 \q
 \v 24 Why do you hide your face
 \q and forget our affliction and our oppression?
@@ -2843,7 +2845,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 3 Put your sword on your side, mighty one,
+\v 3 Gird your sword to your side, mighty one,
 \q in your glory and your majesty.
 \q
 \v 4 In your majesty ride on triumphantly
@@ -2939,7 +2941,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 8 Come, behold the deeds of Yahweh,
-\q the destruction he has caused on earth.
+\q who has set up objects of horror on earth.
 \q
 \v 9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
 \q he breaks the bow and cuts the spear into pieces;
@@ -2960,7 +2962,7 @@
 \d For the chief musician. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
 \q
 \v 1 Clap your hands, all you peoples;
-\q shout to God with the sound of triumph.
+\q shout to God with the sound of celebration.
 \q
 \v 2 For Yahweh Most High is terrifying;
 \q he is a great King over all the earth.
@@ -2971,11 +2973,11 @@
 \q and nations under our feet.
 \q
 \v 4 He chooses our inheritance for us,
-\q the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
+\q the pride of Jacob whom he loved.
 \qs Selah\qs*
 \q
 \v 5 God has gone up with a shout,
-\q Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
+\q Yahweh with the sound of a ram's horn.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -3095,7 +3097,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 9 No one can live forever
-\q so that his body should not decay.
+\q so that he would not see the pit.
 \q
 \v 10 For he will see decay. Wise men die;
 \q the fool and the brute alike perish
@@ -3178,7 +3180,8 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak;
+\v 7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak, Israel,
+\q  and I will testify against you.
 \q I am God, your God.
 \q
 \v 8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices;
@@ -3265,8 +3268,8 @@
 \q
 \v 4 Against you, you only, I have sinned
 \q and done what is evil in your sight;
-\q you are right when you speak;
-\q you are correct when you judge.
+\q you are justified when you speak;
+\q you are blameless when you judge.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -3389,13 +3392,13 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 4 Do those who commit iniquity have no understanding—
+\v 4 Do those who behave wickedly have no understanding—
 \q those who devour my people as if they were eating bread
 \q and they do not call on God?
 \q
 \v 5 There they are, in great fear,
 \q where there was nothing to cause them to be afraid;
-\q for God will scatter the bones of those who attack you;
+\q for God will scatter the bones of those who encamp against you;
 \q you put them to shame,
 \q for God has rejected them.
 
@@ -3417,7 +3420,7 @@
 \q give ear to the words of my mouth.
 \q
 \v 3 For strangers have risen up against me,
-\q and pitiless men have sought after my life;
+\q and ruthless men have sought after my life;
 \q they have not set God before them.
 \qs Selah\qs*
 
@@ -3446,7 +3449,7 @@
 \q and do not hide yourself from my plea.
 \q
 \v 2 Pay attention to me and answer me;
-\q I have no rest in my troubles
+\q I am restless in my troubles
 \q
 \v 3 because of the voice of my enemies,
 \q because of the oppression of the wicked;
@@ -3458,7 +3461,7 @@
 \v 4 My heart trembles within me,
 \q and the terrors of death have fallen on me.
 \q
-\v 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me,
+\v 5 Fear and trembling have come on me,
 \q and horror has overwhelmed me.
 
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@@ -3501,7 +3504,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 15 Let death come suddenly on them;
+\v 15 Let death come deceitfully on them;
 \q let them go down alive to Sheol,
 \q for wickedness is where they live, right among them.
 
@@ -3540,7 +3543,7 @@
 \q he will never allow a righteous person to totter.
 \q
 \v 23 But you, God, will bring the wicked down into the pit of destruction;
-\q bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live even half as long as others,
+\q men of bloodshed and deceit will not live even half as long as others,
 \q but I will trust in you.
 
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@@ -3549,7 +3552,7 @@
 \d For the chief musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A psalm of David. A michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.
 \q
 \v 1 Be merciful to me, God, for men are attacking me!
-\q All the day long those who fight me press their assault.
+\q All the day long those who fight me oppress me.
 \q
 \v 2 My enemies trample me all day long;
 \q for there are many who arrogantly fight against me.
@@ -3598,7 +3601,7 @@
 \q I will give thank offerings to you.
 \q
 \v 13 For you have rescued my life from death;
-\q you have kept my feet from falling,
+\q you have kept my feet from stumbling,
 \q so that I may walk before God
 \q in the light of the living.
 
@@ -3617,7 +3620,7 @@
 \q to God, who does all things for me.
 \q
 \v 3 He will send help from heaven and save me,
-\q he is angry with those who crush me.
+\q he reproaches those who crush me.
 \qs Selah\qs*
 \q God will send me his steadfast love and his faithfulness.
 
@@ -3634,7 +3637,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 6 They spread out a net for my feet;
-\q I was distressed.
+\q I was bowed down.
 \q They dug a pit in front of me.
 \q They themselves have fallen into the middle of it!
 \qs Selah\qs*
@@ -3676,14 +3679,14 @@
 \q they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
 \q
 \v 4 Their poison is like a snake's poison;
-\q they are like a deaf adder that stops up its ears,
+\q they are like a deaf asp that stops up its ears,
 \q
 \v 5 that pays no attention to the voice of charmers,
 \q no matter how skillful they are.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 6 Break their teeth in their mouths, God;
+\v 6 Shatter their teeth in their mouths, God;
 \q break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
 \q
 \v 7 Let them melt away as water that runs off;
@@ -3711,8 +3714,8 @@
 \v 1 Rescue me from my enemies, my God;
 \q set me on high away from those who rise up against me.
 \q
-\v 2 Keep me safe from the workers of iniquity,
-\q and save me from the bloodthirsty men.
+\v 2 Keep me safe from those who behave wickedly,
+\q and save me from men of bloodshed.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -3720,7 +3723,7 @@
 \q The powerful men gather themselves together against me,
 \q but not because of my transgression or my sin, Yahweh.
 \q
-\v 4 They prepare to run at me although I am without fault;
+\v 4 For no guilt of mine they prepare to run at me;
 \q awake and help me and see.
 
 \s5
@@ -3742,7 +3745,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them;
-\q you hold all the nations in derision.
+\q you mock at all the nations.
 \q
 \v 9 God, my strength, I will pay attention to you;
 \q you are my high tower.
@@ -3777,7 +3780,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 16 But I will sing about your strength,
-\q and in the morning I will sing about your steadfast love!
+\q and in the morning I will praise your steadfast love!
 \q For you have been my high tower
 \q and a refuge in the day of my distress.
 \q
@@ -3789,13 +3792,13 @@
 \m
 \d For the chief musician; set to Shushan Eduth. A michtam of David, for teaching; when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
 \q
-\v 1 God, you have cast us off; you have broken through our defenses;
+\v 1 God, you have rejected us; you have broken through our defenses;
 \q you have been angry; restore us again.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 2 You have made the land tremble; you have torn it apart;
-\q heal its fissures, for it is shaking.
+\q heal its cracks, for it is shaking.
 \q
 \v 3 You have made your people see difficult things;
 \q you have made us drink the wine of staggering.
@@ -3822,7 +3825,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 8 Moab is my washbasin;
-\q over Edom I will throw my shoe;
+\q over Edom I will throw my sandal;
 \q I will shout in triumph because of Philistia."
 \q
 \v 9 Who will bring me into the strong city?
@@ -3889,7 +3892,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 3 How long, all of you, will you attack a man,
-\q that you may tip him over
+\q that you may murder him,
 \q like a leaning wall or a shaky fence?
 \q
 \v 4 They consult with him only to bring him down from his honorable position;
@@ -3960,7 +3963,7 @@
 \q with joyful lips my mouth will praise you,
 \q
 \v 6 when I think about you on my bed
-\q and meditate on you in the night hours.
+\q and meditate on you in the night watches.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -3992,7 +3995,7 @@
 \q preserve my life from fear of my enemies.
 \q
 \v 2 Hide me from the secret plotting of evildoers,
-\q from the commotion of the doers of iniquity.
+\q from the commotion of those who behave wickedly.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -4008,7 +4011,7 @@
 \q they consult privately together in order to set traps;
 \q they say, "Who will see us?"
 \q
-\v 6 They invent sinful plans;
+\v 6 They invent injustices;
 \q "We have finished," they say, "a careful plan."
 \q The inner thoughts and hearts of man are deep.
 
@@ -4052,7 +4055,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 5 In righteousness you will answer us by doing amazing things,
+\v 5 In righteousness you will answer us by doing awesome deeds,
 \q God of our salvation;
 \q you who are hope of all the ends of the earth
 \q and of those who are far across the sea.
@@ -4060,7 +4063,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 6 For it is you who made the mountains firm,
-\q you who are belted with strength.
+\q you who are girded with strength.
 \q
 \v 7 It is you who quiet the roaring of the seas,
 \q the roaring of their waves,
@@ -4087,7 +4090,7 @@
 \q and your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
 \q
 \v 12 The pastures in the wilderness drip with dew,
-\q and the hills are clothed with joy.
+\q and the hills are girded with joy.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -4112,7 +4115,7 @@
 \q
 \v 4 All the earth will worship you
 \q and will sing to you;
-\q they will sing to your name."
+\q they will sing praises to your name."
 \qs Selah\qs*
 
 \s5
@@ -4170,7 +4173,7 @@
 \v 17 I cried to him with my mouth,
 \q and he was praised with my tongue.
 \q
-\v 18 If I had seen sin within my heart,
+\v 18 If I had seen wickedness within my heart,
 \q the Lord would not have listened to me.
 
 \s5
@@ -4209,7 +4212,7 @@
 \v 5 Let the peoples praise you, God;
 \q let all the peoples praise you.
 \q
-\v 6 The earth has yielded its harvest
+\v 6 The earth has yielded its produce
 \q and God, our God, has blessed us.
 
 \s5
@@ -4230,7 +4233,7 @@
 \q so let the wicked perish in the presence of God.
 \q
 \v 3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God;
-\q may they rejoice and be happy.
+\q may they rejoice with gladness.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -4265,7 +4268,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 11 The Lord gave the orders,
+\v 11 The Lord gave the word,
 \q and those who announced them were a great army.
 \q
 \v 12 Kings of armies flee, they flee,
@@ -4293,7 +4296,7 @@
 \q
 \v 18 You have ascended on high; you have led away captives;
 \q you have received gifts from among men,
-\q even from those who fought against you,
+\q even from the rebellious,
 \q so that you, Yahweh God, might live there.
 
 \s5
@@ -4329,7 +4332,7 @@
 \v 26 Bless God in the assemblies;
 \q praise Yahweh, you who are from the fountain \f + \ft The copies of the ancient Hebrew text can be read either as \fqa from the fountain \fqa* or \fqa from the assembly \fqa* . \f* of Israel.
 \q
-\v 27 There is first Benjamin, the smallest tribe,
+\v 27 There is Benjamin, the smallest tribe, ruling them,
 \q then the leaders of Judah and their multitudes,
 \q the leaders of Zebulun and the leaders of Naphtali.
 
@@ -4339,13 +4342,13 @@
 \q reveal to us your power, God, as you have revealed it in times past.
 \q
 \v 29 Reveal your power to us from your temple at Jerusalem,
-\q where kings bring gifts to you.
+\q where kings bring tribute to you.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 30 Shout in battle against the wild beasts in the reeds,
+\v 30 Rebuke the wild beasts in the reeds,
 \q against the peoples, that multitude of bulls and calves.
-\q Humiliate them and make them bring you gifts;
+\q Humiliate them and make them bring you silver;
 \q scatter the peoples who love to wage war.
 \q
 \v 31 Princes will come out of Egypt;
@@ -4355,7 +4358,7 @@
 \q
 \v 32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth.
 \qs Selah\qs*
-\q Sing praises to Yahweh,
+\q Sing praises to the Lord,
 \q
 \v 33 to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which exist from ancient times;
 \q see, he lifts up his voice with power.
@@ -4411,8 +4414,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 10 When I wept and did not eat food,
-\q they insulted me.
+\v 10 When I wept and fasted,
+\q it became a reproach to me.
 \q
 \v 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
 \q I became the object of a proverb to them.
@@ -4468,7 +4471,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 24 Pour out your indignation on them,
-\q and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
+\q and let your raging anger overtake them.
 \q
 \v 25 Let their place be a desolation;
 \q let no one live in their tents.
@@ -4486,7 +4489,7 @@
 \v 28 Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life
 \q and not be written down along with the righteous.
 \q
-\v 29 But I am poor and sorrowful;
+\v 29 But I am poor and in pain;
 \q let your salvation, God, set me up on high.
 
 \s5
@@ -4560,7 +4563,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 4 Rescue me, my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
-\q out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel.
+\q out of the hand of the unrighteous and ruthless.
 \q
 \v 5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh.
 \q I have trusted in you ever since I was a child.
@@ -4571,7 +4574,7 @@
 \q you are he who took me out of my mother's belly;
 \q my praise will be always about you.
 \q
-\v 7 I am an example to many people;
+\v 7 I am a marvel to many people;
 \q you are my strong refuge.
 
 \s5
@@ -4753,7 +4756,7 @@
 \v 4 For they have no pain until their death,
 \q but they are strong and well fed.
 \q
-\v 5 They are free from the burdens of other men;
+\v 5 They are not in trouble like other men;
 \q they are not afflicted like other men.
 
 \s5
@@ -4781,7 +4784,7 @@
 \q Is there knowledge with the Most High?"
 \q
 \v 12 Take notice: these people are wicked;
-\q they are always carefree, becoming richer and richer.
+\q they are always at ease, becoming richer and richer.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -4811,11 +4814,11 @@
 \q They come to an end and are finished in awful terrors.
 \q
 \v 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up;
-\q2 Lord, when you arise, you will think nothing of those dreams.
+\q2 Lord, when you arise, you will despise their image.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 21 For my heart was grieved,
+\v 21 For my heart was embittered,
 \q and I was deeply wounded.
 \q
 \v 22 I was ignorant and lacked insight;
@@ -4860,7 +4863,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 3 Come look at the complete ruins,
+\v 3 Come look at the everlasting ruins,
 \q all the damage that the enemy has done in the holy place.
 \q
 \v 4 Your adversaries roared in the middle of your appointed place;
@@ -4874,11 +4877,11 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
-\q they desecrated where you live, knocking it to the ground.
+\v 7 They set your sanctuary on fire, knocking it to the ground;
+\q they desecrated the dwelling place of your name.
 \q
 \v 8 They said in their hearts, "We will destroy them all."
-\q They burned up all of your meeting places in the land.
+\q They burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -4911,7 +4914,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 16 The day is yours, and the night is yours also;
-\q you set the sun and moon in place.
+\q you set the light and the sun in place.
 \q
 \v 17 You have set all the borders of the earth;
 \q you have made summer and winter.
@@ -4934,8 +4937,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 22 Arise, God; defend your own honor;
-\q call to mind how fools insult you all day long.
+\v 22 Arise, God; plead your own cause;
+\q call to mind how fools reproach you all day long.
 \q
 \v 23 Do not forget the voice of your adversaries
 \q or the uproar of those who continually defy you.
@@ -4946,7 +4949,7 @@
 \d For the chief musician; set to Al Tashheth. A psalm of Asaph, a song.
 \q
 \v 1 We give thanks to you, God;
-\q we give thanks, for you reveal your presence;
+\q we give thanks, for your name is near;
 \q people tell of your wondrous works.
 \q
 \v 2 At the appointed time I will judge fairly.
@@ -4961,7 +4964,7 @@
 \q and to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn.
 \q
 \v 5 Do not lift up your horn to the heights;
-\q do not speak with an insolent neck."
+\q do not speak with an arrogant neck."
 \q
 \v 6 It is not from the east or from the west,
 \q and it is not from the wilderness that lifting up comes.
@@ -5000,17 +5003,17 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 4 You shine brightly and reveal your glory,
+\v 4 You shine brightly and are majestic
 \q as you descend from the mountains, where you killed your victims.
 \q
-\v 5 The bravehearted were plundered;
+\v 5 The brave of heart were plundered;
 \q they fell asleep.
 \q All the warriors were helpless.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
-\q both rider and horse fell asleep.
+\q both charioteer and horse fell asleep.
 \q
 \v 7 You, yes you, are to be feared;
 \q who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
@@ -5027,12 +5030,12 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 10 Surely your angry judgment against humanity will bring you praise;
-\q you gird yourself with what is left of your anger.
+\q you gird yourself with the remnant of your anger.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 11 Make vows to Yahweh your God and keep them.
-\q May all who surround him bring gifts to him who is to be feared.
+\q May all who surround him bring tribute to him who is to be feared.
 \q
 \v 12 He cuts off the spirit of the princes;
 \q he is feared by the kings of the earth.
@@ -5042,8 +5045,9 @@
 \m
 \d For the chief musician; after the manner of Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph.
 \q
-\v 1 I will call out with my voice to God;
-\q I will call with my voice to God, and my God will hear me.
+\v 1 I will call with my voice to God;
+\q I will call out with my voice to God,
+\q and my God will give ear to me.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5061,7 +5065,7 @@
 \q I was too troubled to speak.
 \q
 \v 5 I thought about the days of old,
-\q about times long past.
+\q about years long past.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5271,7 +5275,7 @@
 \v 33 Therefore God cut short their days;
 \q their years were filled with terror.
 \q
-\v 34 Whenever God afflicted them, they would start to seek him,
+\v 34 Whenever God killed them, they would start to seek him,
 \q and they would return and look earnestly for him.
 
 \s5
@@ -5316,7 +5320,7 @@
 \q so that they could not drink from their streams.
 \q
 \v 45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them
-\q and frogs that overran their land.
+\q and frogs that destroyed them.
 \q
 \v 46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper
 \q and their labor to the locust.
@@ -5331,7 +5335,7 @@
 \q
 \v 49 The fierceness of his anger lashed out against them.
 \q He sent wrath, fury, and trouble
-\q like agents who bring disaster.
+\q like angels who bring disaster.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5361,7 +5365,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 56 Yet they challenged and defied the Most High God
+\v 56 Yet they challenged and rebelled against the Most High God
 \q and did not keep his solemn commands.
 \q
 \v 57 They were unfaithful and acted treacherously like their fathers;
@@ -5389,7 +5393,7 @@
 \q and he was angry with his heritage.
 \q
 \v 63 Fire devoured their young men,
-\q and their young women had no wedding songs.
+\q and their virgins had no wedding songs.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5453,11 +5457,11 @@
 \q and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name.
 \q
 \v 7 For they have devoured Jacob
-\q and destroyed his villages.
+\q and laid waste his villages.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 8 Do not hold the sins of our forefathers against us;
+\v 8 Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us;
 \q may your merciful actions come to us,
 \q for we are very low.
 \q
@@ -5476,7 +5480,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 12 Pay back into the laps of our neighboring countries seven times as much
-\q as the insults with which they have insulted you, Lord.
+\q as the reproaches with which they have reproached you, Lord.
 \q
 \v 13 So we your people and sheep of your pasture
 \q will give you thanks forever.
@@ -5487,7 +5491,7 @@
 \m
 \d For the chief musician, set to the Shoshannim Eduth style. A psalm of Asaph.
 \q
-\v 1 Pay attention, Shepherd of Israel,
+\v 1 Give ear, Shepherd of Israel,
 \q you who lead Joseph like a flock;
 \q you who sit above the cherubim, shine on us!
 \q
@@ -5505,8 +5509,8 @@
 \v 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears
 \q and given them tears to drink in great quantities.
 \q
-\v 6 You make us something for our neighbors to argue over,
-\q and our enemies laugh about us among themselves.
+\v 6 You make us an object of strife for our neighbors,
+\q and our enemies laugh in mockery about us among themselves.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5541,7 +5545,7 @@
 \q look down from heaven and take notice and take care of this vine.
 \q
 \v 15 This is the root that your right hand planted,
-\q the shoot that you made to grow.
+\q the son that you have strengthened for yourself.
 \q
 \v 16 It has been burned and cut down;
 \q they perish because of your rebuke.
@@ -5549,7 +5553,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 17 May your hand be on the man of your right hand,
-\q on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
+\q on the son of man whom you strengthened for yourself.
 \q
 \v 18 Then we will not turn away from you;
 \q revive us, and we will call on your name.
@@ -5564,13 +5568,13 @@
 \m
 \d For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of Asaph.
 \q
-\v 1 Sing aloud to God our strength;
+\v 1 Shout joyfullly to God our strength;
 \q shout out for joy to the God of Jacob.
 \q
 \v 2 Sing a song and play the tambourine,
 \q the pleasant harp with the lute.
 \q
-\v 3 Blow the trumpet on the day of the new moon,
+\v 3 Blow the ram's horn on the day of the new moon,
 \q on the day of the full moon, when our feast day begins.
 
 \s5
@@ -5610,7 +5614,7 @@
 \q Israel did not obey me.
 \q
 \v 12 So I gave them over to their own stubborn way
-\q so that they might do what seemed right to them.
+\q so that they might follow their own devices.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5642,7 +5646,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
+\v 3 Give justice to the poor and fatherless;
 \q maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.
 \q
 \v 4 Rescue the poor and needy;
@@ -5680,7 +5684,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 3 They conspire against your people
+\v 3 They make shrewd plans against your people
 \q and plan together against your protected ones.
 \q
 \v 4 They have said, "Come, and let us destroy them as a nation.
@@ -5739,7 +5743,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh,
+\v 18 Then they will know that you alone,
+\q whose name is Yahweh,
 \q are the Most High over all the earth.
 
 \s5
@@ -5751,7 +5756,7 @@
 \q Yahweh of hosts!
 \q
 \v 2 I long for the courts of Yahweh; my desire for it has made me exhausted.
-\q My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.
+\q My heart and all of my being shout for joy to the living God.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -5778,7 +5783,7 @@
 \q every one of them appears before God in Zion.
 \q
 \v 8 Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;
-\q God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying!
+\q give ear, God of Jacob!
 \qs Selah\qs*
 \q
 \v 9 God, watch over our shield;
@@ -5805,7 +5810,7 @@
 \v 1 Yahweh, you have shown favor to your land;
 \q you have restored the well-being of Jacob.
 \q
-\v 2 You have forgiven the sin of your people;
+\v 2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people;
 \q you have covered all their sin.
 \qs Selah\qs*
 
@@ -5877,7 +5882,7 @@
 \v 5 You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
 \q abounding in steadfast love to all those who cry out to you.
 \q
-\v 6 Yahweh, listen to my prayer;
+\v 6 Give ear, Yahweh, to my prayer;
 \q hear the sound of my pleas.
 \q
 \v 7 In the day of my trouble I call on you,
@@ -5897,7 +5902,7 @@
 \q you only are God.
 \q
 \v 11 Teach me your ways, Yahweh. Then I will walk in your truth.
-\q Unite my heart to reverence you.
+\q Unite my heart to reverence your name.
 \q
 \v 12 Lord my God, I will praise you with my whole heart;
 \q I will glorify your name forever.
@@ -5908,7 +5913,7 @@
 \q you have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol.
 \q
 \v 14 God, the arrogant have risen up against me.
-\q A gang of violent men seek my life.
+\q A company of violent men seek my life.
 \q They have no regard for you.
 
 \s5
@@ -5979,7 +5984,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 5 I am abandoned among the dead;
+\v 5 I am free among the dead;
 \q I am like the dead who lie in the grave,
 \q about whom you care no more
 \q because they are cut off from your power.
@@ -5996,7 +6001,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 8 Because of you, my acquaintances avoid me.
-\q You have made me a shocking sight to them.
+\q You have made me an abomination to them.
 \q I am hemmed in and I cannot escape.
 
 \s5
@@ -6012,7 +6017,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 11 Will your covenant faithfulness be proclaimed in the grave,
-\q your loyalty in the place of the dead?
+\q your faithfulness in the place of the dead?
 \q
 \v 12 Will your wonderful deeds be known in the darkness,
 \q or your righteousness in the place of forgetfulness?
@@ -6030,7 +6035,7 @@
 \v 15 I have always been afflicted and on the verge of death since my youth.
 \q I have suffered from your terrors; I am in despair.
 \q
-\v 16 Your angry actions have passed over me,
+\v 16 Your burning anger has passed over me,
 \q and your terrifying deeds have annihilated me.
 
 \s5
@@ -6089,7 +6094,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 11 The heavens belong to you, and the earth also.
-\q You made the world and all it contains.
+\q You established the world and all it contains.
 \q
 \v 12 You created the north and the south.
 \q Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
@@ -6104,7 +6109,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 15 Blessed are the people who worship you!
+\v 15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
 \q Yahweh, they walk in the light of your face.
 \q
 \v 16 They rejoice in your name all day long,
@@ -6112,8 +6117,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 17 You are their majestic strength,
-\q and by your favor we are victorious.
+\v 17 You are their glorious strength,
+\q and by your favor our horn is exalted.
 \q
 \v 18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh;
 \q our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.
@@ -6139,7 +6144,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 24 My truth and my covenant faithfulness will be with him;
-\q by my name he will be victorious.
+\q by my name his horn will be exalted.
 \q
 \v 25 I will place his hand over the sea
 \q and his right hand over the rivers.
@@ -6203,7 +6208,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 41 All who pass by have robbed him.
-\q He has become an object of disgust to his neighbors.
+\q He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
 \q
 \v 42 You have raised the right hand of his enemies;
 \q you have made all his enemies rejoice.
@@ -6226,7 +6231,7 @@
 \q How long will your anger burn like fire?
 \q
 \v 47 Oh, think about how short my time is,
-\q and for what uselessness you have created all the children of mankind!
+\q and for what vanity you have created all the children of mankind!
 \q
 \v 48 Who can live and not die,
 \q or rescue his own life from the hand of Sheol?
@@ -6298,11 +6303,11 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 11 Who knows the intensity of your anger,
+\v 11 Who knows the power of your anger,
 \q and your wrath that is equal to the fear of you?
 \q
 \v 12 So teach us to consider our life
-\q so that we might live wisely.
+\q so that we might gain a heart of wisdom.
 \q
 \v 13 Turn back, Yahweh! How long will it be?
 \q Have pity on your servants.
@@ -6337,11 +6342,11 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 3 For he will rescue you from the snare of the hunter
-\q and from the deadly plague.
+\q and from the destructive plague.
 \q
 \v 4 He will cover you with his wings,
 \q and under his wings you will find refuge.
-\q His trustworthiness is a shield and protection.
+\q His faithfulness is a shield and protection.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6349,7 +6354,7 @@
 \q or of the arrow that flies by day,
 \q
 \v 6 or of the plague that stalks in the darkness,
-\q or of the destruction that devastates at noon.
+\q or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
 \q
 \v 7 A thousand may fall at your side
 \q and ten thousand at your right hand,
@@ -6366,9 +6371,9 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 10 No evil will overtake you;
-\q no affliction will come near your home.
+\q no affliction will come near your tent.
 \q
-\v 11 For he will direct his angels to protect you,
+\v 11 For he will put his angels in charge over you,
 \q to guard you in all your ways.
 
 \s5
@@ -6376,13 +6381,13 @@
 \v 12 They will lift you up with their hand
 \q so that you will not hit your foot on a stone.
 \q
-\v 13 You will crush lions and adders under your feet;
+\v 13 You will crush lions and asps under your feet;
 \q you will trample on young lions and serpents.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 14 Because he is devoted to me, I will rescue him.
-\q I will protect him because he is loyal to me.
+\v 14 Because he delights in me, I will rescue him.
+\q I will protect him because he acknowledges my name.
 \q
 \v 15 When he calls to me, I will answer him.
 \q I will be with him in trouble;
@@ -6403,7 +6408,7 @@
 \q and your truthfulness every night,
 \q
 \v 3 with a lute of ten strings
-\q and the melody of the harp.
+\q and the resounding music of the harp.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6419,7 +6424,7 @@
 \q nor does a fool understand this:
 \q
 \v 7 When the wicked sprout like the grass,
-\q and even when all the evildoers thrive,
+\q and even when all those who behave wickedly thrive,
 \q still they are doomed to eternal destruction.
 
 \s5
@@ -6428,7 +6433,7 @@
 \q
 \v 9 Indeed, look at your enemies, Yahweh!
 \q Indeed, look at your enemies. They will perish!
-\q All those who do evil will be scattered.
+\q All those who behave wickedly will be scattered.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6496,12 +6501,12 @@
 \q how long will the wicked rejoice?
 \q
 \v 4 They pour out their arrogant words;
-\q all those who do evil boast.
+\q all those who behave wickedly boast.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 5 They crush your people, Yahweh;
-\q they afflict the nation that belongs to you.
+\q they afflict your heritage.
 \q
 \v 6 They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country,
 \q and they murder the fatherless.
@@ -6511,8 +6516,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 8 Understand, you stupid people!
-\q You fools, when will you ever learn?
+\v 8 Pay attention, you stupid people!
+\q You fools, when will you gain understanding?
 \q
 \v 9 He who made the ear, does he not hear?
 \q He who formed the eye, does he not see?
@@ -6542,7 +6547,7 @@
 \q and all the upright in heart will follow it.
 \q
 \v 16 Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers?
-\q Who will stand up for me against the wicked?
+\q Who will stand up for me against those who behave wickedly?
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6552,15 +6557,15 @@
 \v 18 When I said, "My foot is slipping,"
 \q Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.
 \q
-\v 19 When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.
+\v 19 When cares within me are many, your consolations delight my soul.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with you,
-\q one who creates injustice by statute?
+\q one that creates trouble by statute?
 \q
 \v 21 They conspire together to take the life of the righteous
-\q and they condemn the innocent to death.
+\q and they declare guilty the blood of the innocent.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6576,10 +6581,10 @@
 \m
 \q
 \v 1 Oh come, let us sing to Yahweh;
-\q let us sing joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
+\q let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
 \q
 \v 2 Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving;
-\q let us sing to him with psalms of praise.
+\q let us shout joyfully to him with psalms of praise.
 \q
 \v 3 For Yahweh is a great God
 \q and a great King superior to all gods.
@@ -6606,8 +6611,8 @@
 \v 8 "Do not harden your heart, as at Meribah,
 \q or as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,
 \q
-\v 9 where your forefathers tested me
-\q and tried me, though they had seen my deeds.
+\v 9 where your forefathers tested me;
+\q they put me to the test, though they had seen my deeds.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6615,7 +6620,7 @@
 \q and said, 'This is a people whose hearts wander astray;
 \q they have not known my ways.'
 \q
-\v 11 Therefore I vowed in my anger
+\v 11 Therefore I swore in my anger
 \q that they would never enter into my resting place."
 
 \s5
@@ -6751,7 +6756,7 @@
 \q with the harp and melodious song.
 \q
 \v 6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn,
-\q make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
+\q shout joyfully before the King, Yahweh.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -6802,7 +6807,7 @@
 \q
 \v 8 You answered them, Yahweh our God.
 \q A forgiving God you were to them,
-\q but one who punished their sinful deeds.
+\q but also an avenger of their sinful deeds.
 \q
 \v 9 Praise Yahweh our God,
 \q and worship at his holy hill,
@@ -6843,9 +6848,9 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 2 I will walk in the way of integrity.
+\v 2 I will pay attention to the way of integrity.
 \q Oh, when will you come to me?
-\q I will walk with integrity within my house.
+\q I will walk with integrity of heart within my house.
 \q
 \v 3 I will not put wrongdoing before my eyes;
 \q I hate worthless evil;
@@ -6853,11 +6858,11 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 4 Perverse people will leave me;
+\v 4 A perverse heart will leave me;
 \q I am not loyal to evil.
 \q
 \v 5 I will destroy whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
-\q I will not tolerate anyone who has a proud demeanor and an arrogant attitude.
+\q I will not tolerate the haughty of eye and arrogant of heart.
 \q
 \v 6 I will look to the faithful of the land to sit at my side.
 \q Those who walk in the way of integrity may serve me.
@@ -6868,7 +6873,7 @@
 \q liars will not be welcome before my eyes.
 \q
 \v 8 Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked from the land;
-\q I will remove all evildoers from the city of Yahweh.
+\q I will remove all who behave wickedly from the city of Yahweh.
 
 \s5
 \c 102
@@ -6971,7 +6976,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 25 In ancient times you set the earth in place;
+\v 25 In ancient times you established the earth;
 \q the heavens are the work of your hands.
 \q
 \v 26 They will perish, but you will remain;
@@ -6999,10 +7004,10 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 3 He forgives all your sins;
+\v 3 He forgives all your iniquities;
 \q he heals all your diseases.
 \q
-\v 4 He redeems your life from destruction;
+\v 4 He redeems your life from the pit;
 \q he crowns you with covenant faithfulness and acts of tender mercy.
 \q
 \v 5 He satisfies your life with good things
@@ -7021,11 +7026,11 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 9 He will not always discipline;
-\q he is not always angry.
+\v 9 He will not discipline forever;
+\q he will not be angry to eternity.
 \q
 \v 10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve
-\q or repay us for what our sins demand.
+\q or repay us for what our iniquities demand.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -7094,7 +7099,7 @@
 \q flames of fire his servants.
 \q
 \v 5 He laid the foundations of the earth,
-\q and it will never be moved.
+\q so that it will not totter forever and ever.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -7183,7 +7188,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 27 All these look to you to give them
+\v 27 All these look to you in hope that you will give them
 \q their food on time.
 \q
 \v 28 When you give to them, they gather;
@@ -7196,7 +7201,7 @@
 \q and return to dust.
 \q
 \v 30 When you send out your Spirit, they are created,
-\q and you renew the countryside.
+\q and you renew the surface of the ground.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -7283,7 +7288,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 16 He called for a famine on the land;
-\q he cut off the whole supply of bread.
+\q he cut off the whole staff of bread.
 \q
 \v 17 He sent a man ahead of them;
 \q Joseph was sold as a servant.
@@ -7327,7 +7332,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 28 He sent darkness and made that land dark,
-\q but its people did not obey his commands.
+\q and they did not rebel against his commands.
 \q
 \v 29 He turned their water into blood
 \q and killed their fish.
@@ -7385,7 +7390,7 @@
 \q his chosen with shouts of triumph.
 \q
 \v 44 He gave them the lands of the nations;
-\q they took possession of the wealth of the peoples
+\q they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' labors
 \q
 \v 45 so that they might keep his statutes
 \q and obey his laws.
@@ -7419,7 +7424,7 @@
 \v 6 We have sinned like our ancestors;
 \q we have done wrong, and we have done evil.
 \q
-\v 7 Our fathers did not appreciate your marvelous deeds in Egypt;
+\v 7 Our fathers did not pay attention to your marvelous deeds in Egypt;
 \q they ignored your many acts of covenant faithfulness;
 \q they were rebellious at the sea, the Sea of Reeds.
 
@@ -7444,7 +7449,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 13 But they quickly forgot what he had done;
+\v 13 But they quickly forgot his deeds;
 \q they did not wait for his instructions.
 \q
 \v 14 They had insatiable cravings in the wilderness,
@@ -7459,9 +7464,9 @@
 \q and Aaron, the holy priest of Yahweh.
 \q
 \v 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
-\q and covered the followers of Abiram.
+\q and covered the company of Abiram.
 \q
-\v 18 Fire broke out among them;
+\v 18 Fire broke out in their company;
 \q the fire consumed the wicked.
 
 \s5
@@ -7478,7 +7483,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 22 He had done wonderful things in the land of Ham
-\q and mighty acts at the Sea of Reeds.
+\q and awesome deeds at the Sea of Reeds.
 \q
 \v 23 So he said he would destroy them—
 \q had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him,
@@ -7486,7 +7491,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 24 Then they despised the fruitful land;
+\v 24 Then they despised the delightful land;
 \q they did not believe his promise,
 \q
 \v 25 but grumbled in their tents,
@@ -7510,7 +7515,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 30 Then Phinehas rose to intervene,
+\v 30 Then Phinehas stood up and mediated,
 \q and the plague subsided.
 \q
 \v 31 It was counted to him as a righteous deed
@@ -7527,8 +7532,8 @@
 \v 34 They did not destroy the nations
 \q as Yahweh had commanded them,
 \q
-\v 35 but they mingled with the nations
-\q and learned their ways
+\v 35 but they mingled with the nations,
+\q learned their practices,
 \q
 \v 36 and worshiped their idols,
 \q which became a snare to them.
@@ -7548,7 +7553,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 40 So Yahweh was angry with his people,
-\q and he despised his own people.
+\q and he abhorred his inheritance.
 \q
 \v 41 He gave them into the hand of the nations,
 \q and those who hated them ruled over them.
@@ -7559,8 +7564,8 @@
 \q and they were brought into subjection to their authority.
 \q
 \v 43 Many times he came to help them,
-\q but they kept rebelling
-\q and were brought low by their own sin.
+\q but they were rebellious in their purposes
+\q and were brought low by their own iniquity.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -7570,7 +7575,7 @@
 \v 45 He called to mind his covenant with them
 \q and relented because of his steadfast love.
 \q
-\v 46 He caused all their conquerors
+\v 46 He caused all their captors
 \q to have pity on them.
 
 \s5
@@ -7633,7 +7638,7 @@
 \q they stumbled and there was no one to help them up.
 \q
 \v 13 Then they called out to Yahweh in their trouble,
-\q and he brought them out of their distress.
+\q and he saved them out of their distress.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -7651,22 +7656,22 @@
 \v 17 They were foolish in their rebellious ways
 \q and afflicted because of their sins.
 \q
-\v 18 They lost their desire to eat any food,
+\v 18 Their soul abhorred all food,
 \q and they came close to the gates of death.
 \q
 \v 19 Then they called out to Yahweh in their trouble,
-\q and he brought them out of their distress.
+\q and he saved them out of their distress.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 20 He sent his word and healed them,
-\q and he rescued them from their destruction.
+\q and he rescued them from the pits in which they were trapped.
 \q
 \v 21 Oh that people would praise Yahweh for his covenant faithfulness
 \q and for the amazing things he has done for humanity!
 \q
 \v 22 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving
-\q and proclaim his deeds in singing.
+\q and proclaim his deeds with shouts of joy.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -7731,7 +7736,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 39 They were diminished and brought low
-\q by painful distress and suffering.
+\q by oppression, distress, and suffering.
 \q
 \v 40 He pours contempt on the leaders
 \q and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there are no roads.
@@ -7786,10 +7791,10 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 9 Moab is my washbasin;
-\q over Edom I will throw my shoe;
+\q over Edom I will throw my sandal;
 \q I will shout in triumph because of Philistia.
 \q
-\v 10 Who will bring me into the strong city?
+\v 10 Who will bring me into the fortified city?
 \q Who will lead me to Edom?"
 
 \s5
@@ -7845,8 +7850,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 11 May the creditor take all he owns;
-\q may strangers plunder what he earns.
+\v 11 May the creditor seize all he owns;
+\q may strangers plunder the product of his labor.
 \q
 \v 12 May no one extend any kindness to him;
 \q may no one have pity on his fatherless children.
@@ -7856,7 +7861,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 14 May his ancestors' sins be mentioned to Yahweh;
+\v 14 May his ancestors' iniquity be mentioned to Yahweh;
 \q and may the sin of his mother not be forgotten.
 \q
 \v 15 May their guilt always be before Yahweh;
@@ -7899,7 +7904,7 @@
 \v 24 My knees are weak from fasting;
 \q I am turning to skin and bones.
 \q
-\v 25 I am disdained by my accusers;
+\v 25 I have become a reproach to my accusers;
 \q when they see me, they shake their heads.
 
 \s5
@@ -7946,7 +7951,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change:
+\v 4 Yahweh has sworn and will not change his mind:
 \q "You are a priest forever,
 \q after the manner of Melchizedek."
 
@@ -7997,7 +8002,7 @@
 \v 8 They are established forever,
 \q to be observed faithfully and properly.
 \q
-\v 9 He gave victory to his people;
+\v 9 He send redemption to his people;
 \q he ordained his covenant forever;
 \q holy and awesome is his name.
 
@@ -8042,9 +8047,9 @@
 \v 8 His heart is tranquil, without fear,
 \q until he looks in triumph over his adversaries.
 \q
-\v 9 He generously gives to the poor;
+\v 9 He gives freely to the poor;
 \q his righteousness endures forever;
-\q he will be exalted with honor.
+\q his horn will be exalted with honor.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8076,7 +8081,7 @@
 \v 5 Who is like Yahweh our God,
 \q who has his seat on high,
 \q
-\v 6 who looks down
+\v 6 who humbles himself to look down
 \q at the sky and at the earth?
 
 \s5
@@ -8220,11 +8225,11 @@
 \q I felt anguish and sorrow.
 \q
 \v 4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh:
-\q "Please Yahweh, rescue my life."
+\q "I beg you, Yahweh, rescue my life."
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 5 Yahweh is merciful and fair;
+\v 5 Yahweh is gracious and just;
 \q our God is compassionate.
 \q
 \v 6 Yahweh protects the naive;
@@ -8247,7 +8252,7 @@
 \v 10 I believed in him, even when I said,
 \q "I am greatly afflicted."
 \q
-\v 11 In my confusion I said,
+\v 11 In my alarm I said,
 \q "All men are liars."
 
 \s5
@@ -8280,7 +8285,7 @@
 \q
 \v 19 in the courts of the house of Yahweh,
 \q in your midst, Jerusalem.
-\q Praise Yahweh.
+\q Praise Yah!
 
 \s5
 \c 117
@@ -8344,11 +8349,11 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 13 They attacked me to knock me down,
+\v 13 "You attacked me to knock me down,
 \q but Yahweh helped me.
 \q
 \v 14 Yahweh is my strength and joy,
-\q and he is the one who rescues me.
+\q and he is the one who rescues me."
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8390,8 +8395,8 @@
 \v 24 This is the day on which Yahweh has acted;
 \q we will rejoice and be glad in it.
 \q
-\v 25 Please, Yahweh, give us victory!
-\q Please, Yahweh, give us success!
+\v 25 We beg you, Yahweh, please give us victory!
+\q We beg you, Yahweh, please give us success!
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8500,15 +8505,15 @@
 \v 21 You rebuke the proud, who are cursed,
 \q who wander from your commandments.
 \q
-\v 22 Spare me from disgrace and humiliation,
-\q for I have obeyed your covenant decrees.
+\v 22 Spare me from disgrace and contempt,
+\q for I have obeyed your solemn commands.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 23 Though rulers plot and slander me,
 \q your servant meditates on your statutes.
 \q
-\v 24 Your covenant decrees are my delight,
+\v 24 Your solemn commands are my delight,
 \q and they are my counselors.
 
 \s5
@@ -8566,12 +8571,12 @@
 \v 37 Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
 \q revive me in your ways.
 \q
-\v 38 Carry out for your servant your promise
-\q that you made to those who honor you.
+\v 38 Carry out for your servant the word
+\q that you gave to those who revere you.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 39 Take away the insults I dread,
+\v 39 Take away the reproach I dread,
 \q for your righteous judgments are good.
 \q
 \v 40 See, I have longed for your instructions;
@@ -8581,7 +8586,7 @@
 \qa VAV
 \q
 \v 41 Yahweh, give me your unfailing love—
-\q your salvation, according to your promise;
+\q your salvation, according to your word;
 \q
 \v 42 then I will have a reply for the one who mocks me,
 \q for I trust in your word.
@@ -8613,11 +8618,11 @@
 \s5
 \qa ZAYIN
 \q
-\v 49 Call to mind your promise to your servant
+\v 49 Call to mind your word to your servant
 \q because you have given me hope.
 \q
 \v 50 This is my comfort in my affliction:
-\q that your promise has kept me alive.
+\q that your word has kept me alive.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8633,7 +8638,7 @@
 \q because of the wicked who reject your law.
 \q
 \v 54 Your statutes have been my songs
-\q in the house where I temporarily live.
+\q in the house of my sojourn.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8650,12 +8655,12 @@
 \q I have determined to observe your words.
 \q
 \v 58 I earnestly request your favor with my whole heart;
-\q be merciful to me, as your word promised.
+\q be merciful to me according to your word.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 59 I examined my ways
-\q and turned my feet to your covenant decrees.
+\q and turned my feet to your solemn commands.
 \q
 \v 60 I hurry and do not delay
 \q to keep your commandments.
@@ -8724,7 +8729,7 @@
 \q and that in faithfulness you afflicted me.
 \q
 \v 76 Let your covenant faithfulness comfort me,
-\q as you promised your servant.
+\q according to your word to your servant.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8738,7 +8743,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 79 May those who honor you turn to me,
-\q those who know your covenant decrees.
+\q those who know your solemn commands.
 \q
 \v 80 May my heart be blameless with respect to your statutes
 \q so that I may not be put to shame.
@@ -8749,7 +8754,7 @@
 \v 81 I faint with longing that you might rescue me!
 \q I hope in your word.
 \q
-\v 82 My eyes long to see your promise;
+\v 82 My eyes long for your word;
 \q when will you comfort me?
 
 \s5
@@ -8774,7 +8779,7 @@
 \q but I do not reject your instructions.
 \q
 \v 88 By your steadfast love, keep me alive,
-\q so that I may obey your commands.
+\q so that I may obey the solemn commands that come from your mouth.
 
 \s5
 \qa LAMEDH
@@ -8804,7 +8809,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 95 The wicked prepare to destroy me,
-\q but I will seek to understand your covenant decrees.
+\q but I will seek to understand your solemn commands.
 \q
 \v 96 All perfection I have seen has an end;
 \q but your command is exceedingly broad.
@@ -8898,7 +8903,7 @@
 \q I will always meditate on your statutes.
 \q
 \v 118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes,
-\q for those people are deceptive and unreliable.
+\q for their deceit is vain.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -8928,7 +8933,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 125 I am your servant; give me understanding
-\q so that I may know your covenant decrees.
+\q so that I may know your solemn commands.
 \q
 \v 126 It is time for Yahweh to act,
 \q for people have broken your law.
@@ -8961,7 +8966,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 133 Direct my footsteps by your word;
-\q do not let any sin rule me.
+\q do not let any wickedness rule me.
 \q
 \v 134 Redeem me from human oppression
 \q so that I may observe your instructions.
@@ -8980,12 +8985,12 @@
 \v 137 You are righteous, Yahweh,
 \q and your decrees are fair.
 \q
-\v 138 You have given your covenant decrees righteously
+\v 138 You have given your solemn commands righteously
 \q and faithfully.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 139 Anger has destroyed me
+\v 139 Zeal has destroyed me
 \q because my adversaries forget your words.
 \q
 \v 140 Your word has been tested very much,
@@ -8996,7 +9001,7 @@
 \v 141 I am insignificant and despised,
 \q yet I do not forget your instructions.
 \q
-\v 142 Your justice is forever right,
+\v 142 Your justice is forever justice,
 \q and your law is trustworthy.
 
 \s5
@@ -9014,7 +9019,7 @@
 \q I will keep your statutes.
 \q
 \v 146 I call to you; save me,
-\q and I will observe your covenant decrees."
+\q and I will observe your solemn commands."
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -9037,7 +9042,7 @@
 \v 151 You are near, Yahweh,
 \q and all your commandments are trustworthy.
 \q
-\v 152 Long ago I learned from your covenant decrees
+\v 152 Long ago I learned from your solemn commands
 \q that you had set them in place forever.
 
 \s5
@@ -9047,7 +9052,7 @@
 \q for I do not forget your law.
 \q
 \v 154 Plead my cause and redeem me;
-\q keep me, as you have promised in your word.
+\q keep me alive according to your word.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -9084,7 +9089,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 163 I hate and despise falsehood,
+\v 163 I hate and abhor falsehood,
 \q but I love your law.
 \q
 \v 164 Seven times a day I praise you
@@ -9113,7 +9118,7 @@
 \q give me understanding into your word.
 \q
 \v 170 May my plea come before you;
-\q help me, as you have promised in your word.
+\q help me according to your word.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -9231,7 +9236,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
-\q "May those who love you have peace.
+\q "May those who love you be at ease.
 \q
 \v 7 May there be peace within the walls that defend you,
 \q and may they have peace within your fortresses."
@@ -9253,7 +9258,7 @@
 \q you who are enthroned in the heavens.
 \q
 \v 2 See, as the eyes of servants look to their master's hand,
-\q as the eyes of a maid look to her mistress's hand,
+\q as the eyes of a servant girl look to her mistress's hand,
 \q so our eyes look to Yahweh our God
 \q until he has mercy on us.
 
@@ -9297,7 +9302,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 8 Our help is in Yahweh,
+\v 8 Our help is in the name of Yahweh,
 \q who made heaven and earth.
 
 \s5
@@ -9312,7 +9317,7 @@
 \q so Yahweh surrounds his people
 \q now and forever.
 \q
-\v 3 The scepter of wickedness must not rule in the land of the righteous.
+\v 3 The scepter of wickedness must not rule in the assigned portion of the righteous.
 \q Otherwise the righteous might do what is wrong.
 
 \s5
@@ -9321,7 +9326,7 @@
 \q and to those who are upright in their hearts.
 \q
 \v 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
-\q Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers.
+\q Yahweh will lead them away with the those who behave wickedly.
 \q May peace be on Israel.
 
 \s5
@@ -9329,13 +9334,13 @@
 \m
 \d A song of ascents.
 \q
-\v 1 When Yahweh restored the fortunes of Zion,
+\v 1 When Yahweh reversed the captivity of Zion,
 \q we were like those who dream.
 
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 \q
 \v 2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter
-\q and our tongues with singing.
+\q and our tongues with joyful shouting.
 \q Then they said among the nations,
 \q "Yahweh has done great things for them."
 \q
@@ -9344,7 +9349,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 4 Restore our fortunes, Yahweh,
+\v 4 Reverse our captivity, Yahweh,
 \q like the streams in the Negev.
 \q
 \v 5 Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
@@ -9387,7 +9392,7 @@
 \v 1 Blessed is everyone who honors Yahweh,
 \q who walks in his ways.
 \q
-\v 2 What your hands provide, you will enjoy;
+\v 2 The labor of your hands you will enjoy;
 \q you will be blessed and prosper.
 
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@@ -9423,7 +9428,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 4 Yahweh is righteous;
-\q he has cut the ropes of the wicked."
+\q he has cut off the ropes of the wicked."
 \q
 \v 5 May they all be put to shame and turned back,
 \q those who hate Zion.
@@ -9471,10 +9476,10 @@
 \q
 \v 7 Israel, hope in Yahweh.
 \q Yahweh is merciful,
-\q and he is very willing to forgive.
+\q and with him is great redemption.
 \q
 \v 8 It is he who will redeem Israel
-\q from all his sins.
+\q from all his iniquities.
 
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 \c 131
@@ -9507,8 +9512,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 3 He said, "I will not enter my house
-\q or get into my bed,
+\v 3 He said, "I will not enter the tent of my house
+\q or get on the couch of my bed,
 \q
 \v 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes
 \q or rest to my eyelids
@@ -9542,7 +9547,7 @@
 \q "I will place one of your descendants on your throne.
 \q
 \v 12 If your sons keep my covenant
-\q and the laws that I will teach them,
+\q and the solemn commands that I will teach them,
 \q their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."
 
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@@ -9674,7 +9679,7 @@
 \v 16 Those idols have mouths, but they do not speak;
 \q they have eyes, but they do not see;
 \q
-\v 17 they have ears, but they do not hear,
+\v 17 they have ears, but they do not give ear,
 \q nor is there breath in their mouths.
 \q
 \v 18 Those who make them are like them,
@@ -9761,7 +9766,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 18 to him who killed famous kings,
+\v 18 to him who killed majestic kings,
 \q2 (His covenant faithfulness endures forever.)
 \q
 \v 19 Sihon king of the Amorites
@@ -9783,7 +9788,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 24 to him who has given us victory over our enemies,
+\v 24 to him who has rescued us from our enemies,
 \q2 (His covenant faithfulness endures forever.)
 \q
 \v 25 who gives food to all living beings.
@@ -9806,7 +9811,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 3 There our captors required songs from us,
-\q and those who mocked us required us to be happy, saying,
+\q and those who mocked us required joy from us, saying,
 \q "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
 \q
 \v 4 How could we sing a song about Yahweh
@@ -9868,13 +9873,13 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 7 Though I walk in the middle of danger, you will preserve my life;
+\v 7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will preserve my life;
 \q you will reach out with your hand against the anger of my enemies,
 \q and your right hand will save me.
 \q
 \v 8 Yahweh is with me to the end;
 \q your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, endures forever.
-\q Do not forsake the ones whom your hands have made.
+\q Do not forsake the works of your hands.
 
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 \c 139
@@ -9897,7 +9902,7 @@
 \v 5 Behind me and before me you surround me
 \q and place your hand upon me.
 \q
-\v 6 Such knowledge is too much for me;
+\v 6 Such knowledge is incomprehensible to me;
 \q it is too high, and I cannot reach it.
 
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@@ -9910,7 +9915,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 9 If I fly away on the wings of the morning
+\v 9 If I fly away on the wings of the dawn
 \q and go to live in the uttermost parts across the sea,
 \q
 \v 10 even there your hand will lead me,
@@ -9956,7 +9961,7 @@
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 \q
 \v 19 If only you would kill the wicked, God;
-\q get away from me, you violent men.
+\q get away from me, you men of bloodshed.
 \q
 \v 20 They rebel against you and act deceitfully;
 \q your enemies tell lies.
@@ -9996,7 +10001,7 @@
 \q
 \v 4 Keep me from the hands of the wicked, Yahweh;
 \q preserve me from violent men
-\q who plan to knock me over.
+\q who plan to push down my steps.
 \q
 \v 5 The proud have set a trap for me;
 \q they have spread a net;
@@ -10006,13 +10011,13 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 6 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God;
-\q listen to my cries for mercy."
+\q give ear to the sound of my pleas."
 \q
 \v 7 Yahweh, my Lord, you are powerfully able to save me;
 \q you shield my head in the day of battle.
 \q
 \v 8 Yahweh, do not grant the desires of the wicked;
-\q do not let their plots succeed.
+\q do not let their evil plans succeed.
 \qs Selah\qs*
 
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@@ -10041,7 +10046,7 @@
 \d A psalm of David.
 \q
 \v 1 Yahweh, I am crying out to you; come quickly to me.
-\q Listen to me when I call to you.
+\q Give ear to my voice when I call to you.
 \q
 \v 2 May my prayer be like incense before you;
 \q may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.
@@ -10063,7 +10068,7 @@
 \q may my head not refuse to accept it.
 \q But my prayer is always against their wicked deeds.
 \q
-\v 6 Their leaders will be thrown down from the top of cliffs;
+\v 6 Their judges will be thrown down from the top of cliffs;
 \q they will hear that my own words are pleasant.
 \q
 \v 7 They will have to say, "As when one plows and breaks up the ground,
@@ -10075,7 +10080,7 @@
 \q in you I take refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
 \q
 \v 9 Protect me from the snares that they have laid for me,
-\q from the traps of evildoers.
+\q from the traps of those who behave wickedly.
 \q
 \v 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets
 \q while I escape.
@@ -10109,7 +10114,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 6 Listen to my call,
+\v 6 Listen to my cry,
 \q for I have been brought very low;
 \q rescue me from my persecutors,
 \q for they are stronger than I.
@@ -10124,7 +10129,7 @@
 \m
 \d A psalm of David.
 \q
-\v 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh; listen to my pleas.
+\v 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh; give ear to my pleas.
 \q Because of your faithfulness and righteousness, answer me!
 \q
 \v 2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
@@ -10138,7 +10143,7 @@
 \q like those who have been dead a long time.
 \q
 \v 4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me;
-\q my heart despairs.
+\q my heart is appalled.
 
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 \q
@@ -10276,7 +10281,7 @@
 \q and I will declare your greatness.
 \q
 \v 7 They will declare your abounding goodness,
-\q and they will sing about your righteousness.
+\q and they will shout joyfully about your righteousness.
 
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 \q
@@ -10288,7 +10293,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 10 All you have made will give thanks to you, Yahweh;
+\v 10 All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh;
 \q your faithful ones will bless you.
 \q
 \v 11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
@@ -10316,7 +10321,7 @@
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 \q
 \v 17 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways
-\q and faithful in all he does.
+\q and faithful in all his deeds.
 \q
 \v 18 Yahweh is near to all those who call to him,
 \q to all who call to him in trustworthiness.
@@ -10372,7 +10377,7 @@
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 \q
 \v 9 Yahweh protects the foreigners in the land;
-\q he lifts up the fatherless and widow,
+\q he supports the fatherless and widow,
 \q but he opposes the wicked.
 \q
 \v 10 Yahweh will reign forever,
@@ -10405,7 +10410,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 6 Yahweh lifts up the oppressed;
+\v 6 Yahweh supports the oppressed;
 \q he brings the wicked down to the ground.
 \q
 \v 7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving;
@@ -10509,8 +10514,8 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 11 Praise Yahweh, kings of the earth and all nations,
-\q princes and all who govern on the earth,
+\v 11 Praise Yahweh, you kings of the earth and all nations,
+\q you princes, and all you judges of the earth,
 \q
 \v 12 both young men and young women,
 \q elderly and children.
@@ -10523,7 +10528,7 @@
 \q
 \v 14 He has lifted up the horn of his people
 \q for praise from all his faithful ones,
-\q the Israelites, the people near to him.
+\q the people of Israel, the people near to him.
 \q Praise Yahweh.
 
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@@ -10584,7 +10589,7 @@
 \q praise him with lute and harp.
 \q
 \v 4 Praise him with tambourines and dancing;
-\q praise him with stringed instruments and wind instruments.
+\q praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.
 \q
 \v 5 Praise him with loud cymbals;
 \q praise him with high sounding cymbals.

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@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@
 \q but the hope of wicked people will perish.
 \q
 \v 29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold for those who have integrity,
-\q but it is destruction for the workers of wickedness.
+\q but it is destruction for those who behave wickedly.
 \q
 \v 30 The righteous person will never be overthrown,
 \q but the wicked will not remain in the land.
@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 30 The righteous person will be like a tree of life,
+\v 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
 \q but violence takes away lives.
 \q
 \v 31 Behold! The righteous person is rewarded on earth;
@@ -2004,8 +2004,8 @@
 \v 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father
 \q and bitterness to the woman who bore him.
 \q
-\v 26 Also, it is never good to punish the righteous person;
-\q neither is it good to flog noble men who have integrity.
+\v 26 Also, it is never good to punish the righteous;
+\q neither is it good to flog the noble for their integrity.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -2490,7 +2490,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 3 A prudent man sees trouble and hides himself,
+\v 3 The prudent sees trouble and hides himself,
 \q but the naive go on and suffer because of it.
 \q
 \v 4 The reward for humility and fear of Yahweh
@@ -2659,7 +2659,7 @@
 \v 15 My son, if your heart is wise,
 \q then my heart also will be glad;
 \q
-\v 16 my inmost being will rejoice
+\v 16 my kidneys will rejoice
 \q when your lips speak what is right.
 
 \s5
@@ -3160,8 +3160,8 @@
 \v 11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice;
 \q then I will give back an answer to the one who mocks me.
 \q
-\v 12 A prudent man sees trouble and hides himself,
-\q but the naive people go on and suffer because of it.
+\v 12 The prudent sees trouble and hides himself,
+\q but the naive go on and suffer for it.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@
 \q
 \v 20 This is the way of an adulteress:
 \q she eats and she wipes her mouth
-\q and says, "I have done nothing wrong."
+\q and says, "I have not behaved wickedly."
 
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 \q

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@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@
 \q2 before the silver cord is cut,
 \q2 or the golden bowl is crushed,
 \q2 or the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
-\q2 or the water wheel is broken at the well,
+\q2 or the water wheel is broken at the cistern,
 \q1
 \v 7 before the dust returns to the earth where it came from,
 \q2 and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

24-JER.usfm

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 \v 14 Yahweh said to me, "Disaster will be opened up out of the north on all who live in this land.
 
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-\v 15 For I am calling all the tribes of the northern kingdoms, declares Yahweh. They will come, and everyone will set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all the walls that surround it, and against all the cities of Judah.
+\v 15 For I am calling all the tribes of the northern kingdoms—this is Yahweh's declaration. They will come, and everyone will set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all the walls that surround it, and against all the cities of Judah.
 \v 16 I will pronounce sentence against them for all their evil in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods, and in worshiping what they made with their own hands.
 
 \s5
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 19 As for me, I said, 'How I want to treat you as my son and give you a pleasant land,
+\v 19 As for me, I said, 'How I want to treat you as my son and give you a delightful land,
 \q an inheritance more beautiful than what is in any other nation!' I would have said, 'You will call me "my Father".'
 \q I would have said that you would not turn from following me.
 \q
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
 \q because of the wickedness of your deeds.
 \q
 \v 5 Report in Judah and let it be heard in Jerusalem.
-\q Say, "Blow the trumpet in the land."
+\q Say, "Blow the ram's horn in the land."
 \q Proclaim, "Gather together. Let us go to the fortified cities."
 \q
 \v 6 Lift up the signal flag and point it toward Zion,
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@
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 \c 6
 \p
-\v 1 Find safety, people of Benjamin, by leaving Jerusalem. Blow a trumpet in Tekoa.
+\v 1 Find safety, people of Benjamin, by leaving Jerusalem. Blow a ram's horn in Tekoa.
 \q Raise up over Beth Hakkerem a signal, since wickedness is appearing from the north; a great crushing is coming.
 \q
 \v 2 The daughter of Zion, the beautiful and delicate woman, will be destroyed.
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 6 For Yahweh of hosts says this: Cut her trees, and heap up siegeworks against Jerusalem.
+\v 6 For Yahweh of hosts says this: Cut her trees, and heap up siege works against Jerusalem.
 \q This is the right city to attack, because it is filled with oppression.
 \q
 \v 7 As a well pours out fresh water, so this city keeps producing wickedness.
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
 \q 'Where is this good way?' Then go on it and find a resting place for yourselves.
 \q But the people say, 'We will not go.'
 \q
-\v 17 I appointed for you watchmen to listen for the trumpet.
+\v 17 I appointed for you watchmen to listen for the ram's horn.
 \q But they said, 'We will not listen.'
 \q
 \v 18 Therefore, nations, listen! See, you witnesses, what will happen to them.
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@
 \v 16 The snorting of his stallions is heard from Dan. The whole earth shakes at the sound of the neighing of his strong horses.
 \q For they will come and consume the land and its wealth, the city and the ones living in it.
 \q
-\v 17 For see, I am sending out snakes among you, vipers that you cannot charm.
+\v 17 For see, I am sending out snakes among you, adders that you cannot charm.
 \q They will bite you—this is Yahweh's declaration.'"
 
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@@ -2926,7 +2926,7 @@
 
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 \v 13 But suppose that you say, "We will not stay in this land"—if you do not listen to my voice, the voice of Yahweh your God.
-\v 14 Suppose that you say, "No! We will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see any war, where we will not hear the sound of the trumpet, and we will not go hungry for food. We will live there."
+\v 14 Suppose that you say, "No! We will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see any war, where we will not hear the sound of the ram's horn, and we will not go hungry for food. We will live there."
 
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 \v 15 Now listen to this word of Yahweh, you remnant of Judah. Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this, 'If you actually set out to go to Egypt, to go and live there,
@@ -3320,7 +3320,7 @@
 \v 46 Woe to you, Moab! Chemosh's people are destroyed,
 \q For your sons are taken as captives and your daughters into captivity.
 \q
-\v 47 But I will restore the fortunes of Moab in later days—this is Yahweh's declaration."
+\v 47 But I will reverse the captivity of Moab in later days—this is Yahweh's declaration."
 \q The judgment on Moab ends here.
 
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@@ -3779,7 +3779,7 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 27 Lift up a banner over the earth. Blow the trumpet over the nations. Call the nations to attack her:
+\v 27 Lift up a banner over the earth. Blow the ram's horn over the nations. Call the nations to attack her:
 \q Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
 \q Appoint a commander to attack her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
 \q
@@ -3945,7 +3945,7 @@
 \p
 \v 12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan came to Jerusalem. He was the commander of the king's bodyguards and a servant of the king of Babylon.
 \v 13 He burned the house of Yahweh, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; also every important building in the city he burned.
-\v 14 As for the walls around Jerusalem, all the army of the Babylonians who were with the commander of the bodyguards destroyed them.
+\v 14 As for the walls around Jerusalem, all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the commander of the bodyguards destroyed them.
 
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 \v 15 As for the poorest people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen— Nebuzaradan, the commander of the bodyguards, took some of them away into exile.

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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 15 Then I looked at the living creatures; and I saw one wheel on the ground beside each of the living creatures with its four faces.
-\v 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: Each wheel was like beryl, and the four had the same likeness; their appearance and structure was like a wheel intersecting another wheel.
+\v 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: Each wheel was like beryl, and the four had the same likeness; their appearance and workmanship was like a wheel intersecting another wheel.
 
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 \v 17 As they moved, they went in any of their four directions, without turning as they went.
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@
 \p
 \v 16 Then it happened after seven days that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
 \v 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel, so listen to the word from my mouth, and give them my warning.
-\v 18 When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die' and you do not warn him or speak a warning to the wicked about his evil deeds so he might live—the wicked one will die for his sin, but I will require his blood from your hand.
-\v 19 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked deeds, then he will die for his sin, but you will have rescued your own life.
+\v 18 When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die' and you do not warn him or speak a warning to the wicked about his evil deeds so he might live—the wicked one will die for his iniquity, but I will require his blood from your hand.
+\v 19 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked deeds, then he will die for his iniquity, but you will have rescued your own life.
 
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 \v 20 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, and I set a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and I will not call to mind the righteous deeds that he performed, but I will require his blood from your hand.
@@ -151,11 +151,11 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 4 Then, lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel on it; you will carry their sin for the number of the days that you lie down against the house of Israel.
-\v 5 I myself am assigning to you one day to represent each year of their punishment: 390 days! In this way, you will carry the sin of the house of Israel.
+\v 4 Then, lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel on it; you will bear their iniquity for the number of the days that you lie down against the house of Israel.
+\v 5 I myself am assigning to you one day to represent each year of their punishment: 390 days! In this way, you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
 
 \s5
-\v 6 When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time on your right side, for you will carry the sin of the house of Judah for forty days. I am assigning to you one day for each year.
+\v 6 When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time on your right side, for you will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days. I am assigning to you one day for each year.
 \v 7 Set your face toward Jerusalem that is under siege, and with your arm uncovered prophesy against it.
 \v 8 For behold! I am placing bonds on you so you will not turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
 \v 13 For Yahweh says, "This means that the bread that the people of Israel will eat will be unclean, there among the nations where I will banish them."
 
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-\v 14 But I said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh! I have never been unclean! I have never eaten either anything that died or anything killed by animals, from my youth until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth!"
+\v 14 But I said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh! I have never been unclean! I have never eaten either an animal that died by itself or anything killed by animals, from my youth until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth!"
 \v 15 So he said to me, "Look! I have given you cow manure instead of human dung so you can prepare your bread over that."
 
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@@ -190,23 +190,23 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 5 The Lord Yahweh says this, "This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations, where I have placed her, and where I have surrounded her with other lands.
-\v 6 But she has in wickedness rejected my decrees more than the nations have, and my statutes more than the countries that surround her. The people have rejected my judgments and have not walked in my statutes."
+\v 6 But she has rebelled against my decrees more wickedly than the nations have, and my statutes more than the countries that surround her. The people have rejected my judgments and have not walked in my statutes."
 
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 \v 7 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this, "Because you are more troublesome than the nations that surround you and have not walked in my statutes or acted according to my decrees, or even acted according to the decrees of the nations that surround you,"
 \v 8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says this, "Behold! I myself will act against you. I will execute judgments within your midst for the nations to see.
 
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-\v 9 I will do to you what I have not done and the like of which I will not do again, because of all your disgusting actions.
-\v 10 Therefore fathers will eat the children in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers, since I will execute judgment on you and scatter to every direction all of you who are left.
+\v 9 I will do to you what I have not done and the like of which I will not do again, because of all your disgusting practices.
+\v 10 Therefore fathers will eat the children in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers, since I will execute judgment on you and scatter to every direction all of you who remain.
 
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-\v 11 Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—it is certainly because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your hateful things and with all your disgusting deeds, that I myself will reduce you in number; my eye will not have pity on you, and I will not spare you.
+\v 11 Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—it is certainly because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your disgusting practices, that I myself will reduce you in number; my eye will not have pity on you, and I will not spare you.
 \v 12 A third of you will die by plague, and they will be consumed by famine in your midst. A third will fall by the sword surrounding you. Then I will scatter a third in every direction, and draw out a sword to chase after them as well.
 
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 \p
-\v 13 Then my wrath will be completed, and I will cause my fury toward them to rest. I will be satisfied, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my wrath when I have completed my fury against them.
+\v 13 Then my wrath will be completed, and I will cause my fury toward them to rest. I will be appeased, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my jealousy when I have completed my fury against them.
 \v 14 I will make you a desolation and a reproach to the nations that surround you in the sight of everyone who passes by.
 
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@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
 \v 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and scatter your bones around your altars.
 
 \s5
-\v 6 Everywhere you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate. Then they will be broken and disappear, your pillars will be cut down and your works will be wiped away.
+\v 6 Everywhere you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate. Then your idols will be broken and disappear, your pillars will be cut down and your works will be wiped away.
 \v 7 The dead will fall down in your midst and you will know that I am Yahweh.
 
 \s5
@@ -267,7 +267,8 @@
 \v 6 An end is surely coming. The end has woken up against you. Behold, it is coming!
 \q
 \v 7 Your doom is coming to you who inhabit the land.
-\q The time has come; the day of destruction is near, and the mountains will no longer be joyful.
+\q The time has come; the day is near—
+\q tumult and not joyful shouting on the mountains.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -292,7 +293,7 @@
 \q
 \v 13 For the seller will not return to the land he sold as long as they both live,
 \q because the vision concerning the entire multitude will not be reversed;
-\q and because of their sins, none of them will be strengthened!
+\q and because of their iniquity, none of them will be strengthened!
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -309,7 +310,7 @@
 \q
 \v 17 Every hand will falter and every knee will be weak as water,
 \q
-\v 18 and they will wear sackcloth, and terror will cover them;
+\v 18 and they will gird themselves sackcloth, and trembling will cover them;
 \q and shame will be on every face, and baldness on all of their heads.
 \q
 \v 19 They will throw their silver into the streets and their gold will be like refuse. Their silver and their gold
@@ -2406,7 +2407,7 @@
 
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-\v 5 There was a wall surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring stick in the man's hand was six long cubits. Each long cubit was a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the wall, and it was one measuring stick thick and one rod high.
+\v 5 There was a wall surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring stick in the man's hand was six long cubits. Each long cubit was a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the wall, and it was one measuring stick thick and one measuring stick high.
 \v 6 Then he went to the temple gate that faced east. He went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate—one stick in depth. \f + \ft After \fqa one stick in depth \fqa* , many copies of the ancient Hebrew text contains the additional phrase: \fqa one threshold one stick in depth" \fqa* . Many modern translations, however, leave this expression out, because it seems to be a repetition of preceding verse. \f*
 \v 7 The guard chambers were each one stick in length and one stick in width; there were five cubits between any two of the chambers, and the threshold of the temple gate by the temple portico was one stick deep.
 
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 \v 13 This is the contribution that you must present: A sixth of an ephah for every homer of wheat, and you will give a sixth of an ephah for every homer of barley.
 \v 14 The regulation offering of oil will be a tenth of a bath for every cor (which is ten baths), or for every homer, since a homer is also ten baths.
-\v 15 One sheep or goat from the flock for every two hundred animals from the watered regions of Israel will be used for any burnt offering or peace offering to make atonement for the people—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
+\v 15 One sheep or goat will be taken from the flock for every two hundred animals from the well-watered land of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the people—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 
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 \v 21 In this way you will divide this land for yourselves, for the tribes of Israel.
-\v 22 In the four corners of the outer courtyard there were four small courtyards, forty cubits in length and thirty in width. The four courtyards were the same size. \f + \ft The Hebrew word translated here as \fqa small \fqa* is unclear. Some ancient and some modern translations translate it as "small". However, there is some uncertainty about this word, and others translate it differently. \f*
+\v 22 So you will distribute the inheritances for yourselves and for the foreigners in your midst, those who have given birth to children in your midst and who are, with you, like the native born people of Israel. You will cast lots for inheritances among the tribes of Israel.
 \v 23 Then it will happen that the foreigner will be with the tribe among whom he is living. You must give him an inheritance—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
 
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 \v 36 This was the dream. Now we will tell the king the interpretation.
 \v 37 You, king, are king of the kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the honor.
-\v 38 He has given into your hand the place where the human beings live. He has given over the animals of the fields and the birds of the heavens into your hand, and he has made you rule over them all. You are the statue's head of gold.
+\v 38 He has given into your hand the place where the human beings live. He has given over the animals of the field and the birds of the heavens into your hand, and he has made you rule over them all. You are the statue's head of gold.
 
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 \v 39 After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze will rule over all the earth.
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 \v 29 Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego must be torn apart, and that their houses must be made into rubbish heaps because there is no other god who is able to save like this."
-\v 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
+\v 30 Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to prosper in the province of Babylon.
 
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 \v 10 These were the sights that I saw in my mind as I lay upon my bed: I looked, and there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and its height was very great.
 \v 11 The tree grew and became strong. Its top reached to the heavens, and it could be seen to the ends of the whole earth.
-\v 12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and on it was food for all. The wild animals found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches. All living creatures were fed from it.
+\v 12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and on it was food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches. All living creatures were fed from it.
 
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 \v 13 I saw in my mind as I lay on my bed, and a watcher, a holy one came down from the heavens.
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 \v 22 this tree is you, king, you who have grown so strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to the heavens, and your dominion reaches to the ends of the earth.
 
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-\v 23 You, king, saw a watcher, a holy one coming down from heaven and saying, 'Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the middle of the tender grass of the field. Let it be wet with the dew from the heavens. Let it live with the wild animals in the fields until seven years pass by.'
+\v 23 You, king, saw a watcher, a holy one coming down from heaven and saying, 'Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the middle of the tender grass of the field. Let it be wet with the dew from the heavens. Let it live with the animals in the field until seven years pass by.'
 
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 \v 24 This is the interpretation, king. It is a decree of the Most High that has reached you, my master the king.
-\v 25 You will be driven from among men, and you will live with the wild animals in the fields. You will be made to eat grass like cattle, and you will be wet with the dew from the heavens, and seven years will pass by until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of people and that he gives them to anyone he wishes.
+\v 25 You will be driven from among men, and you will live with the  animals in the field. You will be made to eat grass like cattle, and you will be wet with the dew from the heavens, and seven years will pass by until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of people and that he gives them to anyone he wishes.
 
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 \v 26 As it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, in this way your kingdom will be returned to you from the time you learn that heaven rules.
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 \v 31 While the words were still on the lips of the king, a voice came from heaven: "King Nebuchadnezzar, it is announced to you that this kingdom has been taken away from you.
-\v 32 You will be driven away from people, and your home will be with the wild animals in the fields. You will be made to eat grass like cattle. Seven years will pass until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of people and he gives them to anyone he wishes."
+\v 32 You will be driven away from people, and your home will be with the animals in the field. You will be made to eat grass likez cattle. Seven years will pass until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of people and he gives them to anyone he wishes."
 
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 \v 33 This decree against Nebuchadnezzar was carried out immediately. He was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and his body was wet with the dew from the heavens. His hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails became like birds' claws.
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 \q out of this kingdom ten kings will arise,
 \q and another will arise after them.
 \q He will be different from the previous ones,
-\q and he will conquer the three kings.
+\q and he will subdue the three kings.
 
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-\v 8 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
+\v 8 Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah,
 \q and the trumpet in Ramah.
 \q Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven:
 \q 'We will follow you, Benjamin!'
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-\v 1 "Place a trumpet at your lips!
+\v 1 "Place a ram's horn at your lips!
 \q An eagle is coming over the house of Yahweh
 \q because the people have broken my covenant
 \q and rebelled against my law.

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-\v 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
+\v 1 Blow the ram's horn in Zion,
 \q and sound an alarm on my holy mountain!
 \q Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble in fear,
 \q for the day of Yahweh is coming;
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 
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-\v 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
+\v 15 Blow the ram's horn in Zion,
 \q call for a holy fast,
 \q and call a holy assembly.
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 \v 32 It will be that everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved.
-\q For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
+\q For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be an escaped remnant,
 \q as Yahweh has said,
 \q and among the survivors,
 \q those whom Yahweh calls.

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 \v 2 I will send fire on Moab,
 \q and it will devour the fortresses of Kerioth.
 \q Moab will die in an uproar,
-\q with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.
+\q with shouting and the sound of the ram's horn.
 \q
 \v 3 I will destroy the judge in her,
 \q and I will kill all the princes with him,"
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 \q and so profane my holy name.
 \q
 \v 8 They lie down beside every altar on clothes taken as pledges,
-\q and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who were fined.
+\q and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been forced to pay a fine.
 
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 \q Will a trap spring up from the ground
 \q when it has not caught anything?
 \q
-\v 6 If a trumpet sounds in a city,
+\v 6 If a ram's horn sounds in a city,
 \q will the people not tremble?
 \q If disaster overtakes a city,
 \q has Yahweh not sent it?

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 \v 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—how you will be ruined!—would they not steal only as much as they needed? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave the gleanings?
-\v 6 How Esau had been ransacked, his hidden treasures looted!
+\v 6 How Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures looted!   
 
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-\v 7 All the men of your alliance will send you on your way to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. They who eat your bread have set a trap under you. There is no understanding in him.
+\v 7 All the men of your alliance will send you on your way to the border. The men who were at peace with you will deceive you and prevail against you. They who eat your bread will set a trap under you. There is no understanding in him.  
 \p
 \v 8 "Will I not on that day"—this is Yahweh's declaration—"destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
 \v 9 Your mighty men will be dismayed, Teman, so that every man may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

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 \q Others shout, "Stop, stop," but no one turns back.
 \q
 \v 9 Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to the treasure,
-\q to the splendor of all Nineveh's beautiful things.
+\q to the splendor of all Nineveh's desirable things.
 \q
 \v 10 Nineveh is empty; empty and devastated. Everyone's heart melts, everyone's knees strike together,
 \q and anguish is in all loins; their faces are all pale.

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 \q a day of storm and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom,
 \q a day of clouds and thick darkness.
 \q
-\v 16 It will be a day of trumpets and alarms
+\v 16 It will be a day of rams' horns and alarms
 \q against the fortified cities and the high battlements.
 
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 \v 7 The coastal region will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah,
 \q who will shepherd their flocks there. Their people will lie down in the evening in the houses of Ashkelon,
-\q for Yahweh their God will care for them and restore their fortunes.
+\q for Yahweh their God will care for them and reverse their captivity.
 
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 \q I will make them as praise, and I will change their shame into renown in all the earth.
 \q
 \v 20 At that time I will lead you; at that time I will gather you together.
-\q I will give you renown and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,"
+\q I will give you renown and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I reverse your captivity before your eyes,"
 \q says Yahweh.
 

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-\v 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius's reign, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
+\v 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius's reign, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah son of Berekiah son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
 \v 8 "I saw in the night, and, look! A man was riding on a red horse, and he was among the myrtle trees that are in the valley; and behind him there were red, reddish-brown, and white horses."
 \v 9 I said, "What are these things, Lord?" Then the angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these things are."
 
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 \v 3 Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.
 
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-\v 4 The angel spoke and said to those who stood before him, "Remove the filthy garments from upon him." Then he said to Joshua, "Look! I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will dress you in fine clothing."
+\v 4 The angel spoke and said to those who stood before him, "Remove the filthy garments from upon him." Then he said to Joshua, "Look! I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will dress you in official robes."
 \v 5 Then I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head!" So they set a clean turban on Joshua's head and clothed him with clean garments, while the angel of Yahweh was standing by.
 
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-\v 14 Yahweh will appear to them, and his arrows will shoot out like lightning! For my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet and will advance with the storms from Teman.
+\v 14 Yahweh will appear to them, and his arrows will shoot out like lightning! For my Lord Yahweh will blow the ram's horn and will advance with the storms from Teman.
 \v 15 Yahweh of hosts will defend them, and they will devour them and defeat the stones of the slings. Then they will drink and shout like men drunk on wine, and they will be filled with wine like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
 
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 \v 39 But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil. Instead, whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
 
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-\v 40 If anyone wishes sue you and takes away your tunic, let that person also have your cloak.
+\v 40 If anyone wishes to sue you and takes away your tunic, let that person also have your cloak.
 \v 41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
 \v 42 Give to anyone who asks you, and do not turn away from anyone who wishes to borrow from you.
 
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-\v 15 For this people's heart has become dull,
-\q and they are hard of hearing,
-\q and they have closed their eyes,
-\q so they should not see with their eyes,
-\q or hear with their ears,
-\q or understand with their hearts,
-\q so they would turn again,
-\q and I would heal them.'
-\m
+\v 15 For the heart of this people has become dull,
+\q and with their ears they hardly hear,
+\q and they have shut their eyes.
+\q Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
+\q and hear with their ears,
+\q and understand with their heart and turn again,
+\q and I would heal them."'
 
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 \v 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine growers?"
 \p
-\v 41 They said to him, "He will destroy those wretches wretchedly, and will then rent out the vineyard to other vine growers, men who will give him his share of crops at the harvest time."
+\v 41 They said to him, "He will destroy those wicked men and make them wretched, and he will then rent out the vineyard to other vine growers, men who will give him his share of crops at the harvest time."
 
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 \v 15 These are the ones beside the road, where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
 
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 \v 16 And these are the seed sown on the rocky ground; who, when they hear the word immediately receive it with joy.
 \v 17 But they do not have root in themselves, but they endure for a while. Afterward when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, they immediately fall away.
 
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 \q 'This people honors me with their lips,
 \q but their heart is far from me.
 \q
-\v 7 Empty worship they offer me,
+\v 7 In vain they worship me,
 \q teaching the commands of men as their doctrines.'
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 \v 51 Jesus answered him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"
-\p The blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to receive my sight."
+\p The blind man said, "Rabboni, I want to receive my sight."
 \p
 \v 52 Then Jesus said to him, "Go. Your faith has healed you." Immediately he could see again, and he followed him on the road.
 
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 \v 1 Then Jesus began to teach them in parables. He said, "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, and dug a pit for a winepress. He built a watchtower and then leased the vineyard to vine growers. Then he went away on a journey.
 \v 2 At the right time, he sent a servant to the vine growers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
-\v 3 But they took him, beat him, and sent him away with nothing.
+\v 3 But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
 
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 \q and he has raised up those of low condition.
 \q
 \v 53 He has filled the hungry with good things,
-\q but the rich he has sent away empty.
+\q but the rich he has sent away empty-handed.
 
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 \v 41 His parents went every year to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover.
 \v 42 When he was twelve years old, they again went up at the customary time for the festival.
 \v 43 After they had stayed the full number of days for the feast, they began to return home. But the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem and his parents did not know it.
-\v 44 They assumed that he was with the group that was traveling with them, so they traveled a day's journey. Then they started looking for him among their relatives and friends.
+\v 44 They assumed that he was with the group that was traveling with them, so they traveled a day's journey. Then they started to search carefully for him among their relatives and friends.
 
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-\v 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem and started looking for him there.
+\v 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem and started to search carefully for him there.
 \v 46 It came about that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
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 \v 36 Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So after Jesus entered into the Pharisee's house, he reclined at the table to eat.
 \v 37 Behold, there was a woman in the city who was a sinner. When she found out that he was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.
-\v 38 As she stood behind him near his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with perfumed oil.
+\v 38 As she stood behind him near his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair and kissed them and anointed them with perfumed oil.
 
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 \v 39 When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he thought to himself, saying, "If this man were a prophet, then he would know who and what type of woman is touching him, that she is a sinner."
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 \v 28 If God so clothes the grass in the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
 
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-\v 29 Do not look for what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious.
-\v 30 For all the nations of the world look for these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
+\v 29 Do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious.
+\v 30 For all the nations of the world seek these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
 
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 \v 16 But you will be given over also by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death.
 \v 17 You will be hated by everyone because of my name.
-\v 18 But not a hair of your head will perish.
+\v 18 But not a hair from your head will perish.
 \v 19 In your endurance you will gain your lives.
 
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 \v 31 When Judas was gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.
 \v 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify the Son in himself, and he will glorify him at once.
-\v 33 Little children, I am with you for still a short amount of time. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.' Now I also say this to you.
+\v 33 Little children, I am with you for still a short amount of time. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.' Now I also say this to you.
 
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 \v 24 For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
 
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-\v 25 Barnabas then went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
+\v 25 Barnabas then went out to Tarsus to search carefully for Saul.
 \v 26 When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. It came about, that for an entire year they gathered together with the church and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
 
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 \v 9 Then David says,
-\q "Let their table become a net and a trap,
+\q "Let their table become a snare and a trap,
 \q a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
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 \v 10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see,
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 \v 6 We have different gifts according to the grace that was given to us. If one's gift is prophecy, let it be done according to the proportion of his faith.
 \v 7 If one's gift is service, let him serve. If one has the gift of teaching, let him teach.
-\v 8 If one's gift is encouragement, let him encourage. If one's gift is giving, let him do it generously. If one's gift is leading, let it be done with zeal. If one's gift is in showing mercy, let it be done with cheerfulness.
+\v 8 If one's gift is encouragement, let him encourage. If one's gift is giving, let him do it generously. If one's gift is leading, let it be done with diligence. If one's gift is in showing mercy, let it be done with cheerfulness.
 
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-\v 17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned.
+\v 17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned. Turn away from them.
 \v 18 For people such as these do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach. By their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
 
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 \v 8 Let us not commit sexual immorality, as many of them did. In one day, twenty-three thousand people died because of it.
 
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-\v 9 Neither let us put Christ to the test, as many of them did and were destroyed by snakes.
+\v 9 Neither let us put Christ to the test, as many of them tested him and were destroyed by snakes.
 \v 10 Also do not grumble, as many of them did and were destroyed by an angel of death.
 
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 \v 10 For godly sorrow brings about repentance that accomplishes salvation without regret. Worldly sorrow, however, brings about death.
 
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-\v 11 See what great determination this godly sorrow produced in you. How great was the determination in you to prove you were innocent. How great was your indignation, your fear, your longing, your zeal, and your desire to see that justice should be done! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
+\v 11 See what great diligence this godly sorrow produced in you. How great was the determination in you to prove you were innocent. How great was your indignation, your fear, your longing, your zeal, and your desire to see that justice should be done! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
 \v 12 Although I wrote to you, I did not write for the sake of the wrongdoer, nor for the one who suffered the wrong, but so that your earnestness toward us should be made known to you in the sight of God.
 
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 \v 18 It is always good to be zealous for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you.
 
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-\v 19 My little children, again I am in the pains of childbirth for you until Christ is formed in you.
+\v 19 My little children, again I am suffering the pains of childbirth for you until Christ is formed in you.
 \v 20 I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
 
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 \v 18 For through Jesus we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
 
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-\v 19 So then, now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. Instead you are fellow citizens with God's holy people and members of the household of God.
+\v 19 So then, now you Gentiles are no longer foreigners and strangers. Instead you are fellow citizens with God's holy people and members of the household of God.
 \v 20 You have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.
 \v 21 In him the whole building fits together and grows as a holy temple in the Lord.
 \v 22 It is in him that you also are being built together as a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.

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 \v 10 He will do this when he comes on that day to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at by all those who believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
 
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-\v 11 Because of this we also pray continually for you, that our God may consider you worthy of your calling and with his power he may fulfill every good purpose and every work of faith.
+\v 11 Because of this we also pray continually for you, that our God may consider you worthy of your calling and with his power he may fulfill every good pleasure and every work of faith.
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-\v 10 for sexually immoral people, for those who practice homosexuality, for those who kidnap people for slaves, for liars, for false witnesses, and for whatever else is opposed to sound teaching.
+\v 10 for sexually immoral people, for those who practice homosexuality, for those who kidnap people for slaves, for liars, for false witnesses, and for whatever else is opposed to healthy teaching.
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 \v 14 And the grace of our Lord overflowed with the faith and the love that is in Christ Jesus.
 
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-\v 15 This message is reliable and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of these.
-\v 16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all patience. He did this as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life.
+\v 15 This message is reliable and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
+\v 16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all patience. He did this as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life.
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-\v 1 Therefore, first of all, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
+\v 1 Therefore, first of all, I urge that humble requests, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
 \v 2 for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may live a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
 \v 3 This is good and acceptable before God our Savior.
 \v 4 He desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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 \v 9 In the same way, the women are to dress with proper clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothing,
-\v 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness through good works.
+\v 10 but with what is proper for women who proclaim godliness through good works.
 
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 \v 14 Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
-\v 15 However, she will be saved through bearing children, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with soundness of mind.
+\v 15 However, she will be saved through bearing children, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with self-control.
 
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 \v 14 As I write these things to you, I hope to come to you soon.
-\v 15 But if I delay, I am writing so that you may know how to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
+\v 15 But if I delay, I am writing so that you may know how to conduct yourself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
 
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 \v 6 If you place these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ. For you are being nourished by the words of faith and by the good teaching that you have followed.
-\v 7 But reject worldly stories loved by old women. Instead, train yourself in godliness.
+\v 7 But reject profane stories loved by old women. Instead, train yourself in godliness.
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-\v 5 But she who is a real widow, who is left all alone, has set her hope in God and continues in making petitions and offering prayers night and day.
+\v 5 But she who is a real widow, who is left all alone, has set her hope in God and continues in offering earnest appeals and prayers night and day.
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-\v 12 In this way they incur guilt because they revoke their first commitment.
+\v 12 In this way they incur condemnation because they set aside their first commitment.
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-\v 2 The slaves who have believing masters should not show them disrespect because they are brothers. Instead, they should serve them all the more. For the masters who are helped by their work are believers and beloved. Teach and declare these things.
+\v 2 The slaves who have believing masters should not show them disrespect because they are brothers. Instead, they should serve them all the more. For those who receive the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and declare these things.
 
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-\v 3 If anyone teaches false doctrine and not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
+\v 3 If anyone teaches false doctrine and not agree with the healthy words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
 \v 4 he is proud and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words that result in envy, strife, insults, evil suspicions,
 \v 5 and constant conflict between people who have morally corrupt minds. They have lost the truth and they think that godliness is a way to get more money. \f + \ft Some old copies add the exhortation, \fqa Stay away from such things. \fqa* But the best ancient copies do not. \f*
 
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-\v 9 Now those who want to become wealthy fall into temptation, into a trap. They fall into many foolish and harmful desires, and into whatever else sinks people into ruin and destruction.
+\v 9 Now those who desire to become wealthy fall into temptation, into a trap. They fall into many foolish and harmful desires, and into whatever else sinks people into ruin and destruction.
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-\v 14 to keep the command without stain or blame, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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-\v 20 Timothy, protect what was given to you. Avoid the empty, profane talk and conflicting ideas of what is falsely called knowledge.
+\v 20 Timothy, protect what was given to you. Avoid the profane and empty talk and the conflicting ideas of what is falsely called knowledge.
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 \v 8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me, Paul, his prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God.
 \v 9 It is God who saved us and called us with a holy calling. He did this, not according to our works, but according to his own plan and grace. He gave us these things in Christ Jesus before times ever began.
-\v 10 But now God's salvation has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. It is Christ who put an end to death and brought life that never ends to light through the gospel.
+\v 10 But now God's salvation has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. It is Christ who put an end to death and brought life and incorruptibility to light through the gospel.
 \v 11 Because of this, I was appointed a herald, an apostle, and a teacher. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies add, \fqa to the Gentiles \fqa* . \f*
 
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-\v 13 Keep the example of the sound words that you heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
+\v 13 Keep the example of the healthy words that you heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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 \v 15 You know this, that all who live in Asia turned away from me. In this group are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
 \v 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.
 \v 17 Instead, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and he found me.
-\v 18 May the Lord grant to him to find mercy from him on that day. All the ways he helped me in Ephesus, you know very well.
+\v 18 May the Lord grant to him to find mercy from him on that day. All the ways he served me in Ephesus, you know very well.
 
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-\v 14 Keep reminding them of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa Warn them before the Lord \fqa* . \f*
+\v 14 Keep reminding them of these things. Solemnly charge them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value and only ruins those who listen. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa Warn them before the Lord \fqa* . \f*
 \v 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a laborer who has no reason to be ashamed, who accurately teaches the word of truth.
 
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-\v 16 Avoid profane talk, which leads to more and more godlessness.
+\v 16 Avoid profane and empty talk, which leads to more and more godlessness.
 \v 17 Their talk will spread like cancer. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
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-\v 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questions. You know that they give birth to arguments.
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 \v 3 They will be without natural affection, unable to reconcile, slanderers, without self-control, violent, not lovers of good.
-\v 4 They will be betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
+\v 4 They will be betrayers, reckless, prideful, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
 
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+\v 8 In the same way that Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, these false teachers also stand against the truth. They are men corrupt in mind, and with regard to the faith they are disqualified.
 \v 9 But they will not advance very far. For their foolishness will be obvious to all, just like that of those men.
 
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-\v 3 For the time will come when people will not endure sound teaching. Instead, they will heap up for themselves teachers according to their own desires, who say what their itching ears want to hear.
+\v 3 For the time will come when people will not endure healthy teaching. Instead, they will heap up for themselves teachers according to their own desires, who say what their itching ears want to hear.
 \v 4 They will turn their hearing away from the truth, and they will turn aside to myths.
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-\v 7 I have competed in the good contest; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.
+\v 7 I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.
 \v 8 The crown of righteousness has been reserved for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
 
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+\v 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me so that, through me, the proclamation of the message might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued out of the lion's mouth.
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-\v 9 He should hold tightly to the trustworthy message that was taught, so that he may be able to encourage others with good teaching and correct those who oppose him.
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-\v 11 It is necessary to stop them. They are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful profit what they should not teach.
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-\v 13 This statement is true. Therefore, correct them severely, so that they may be sound in the faith,
+\v 13 This testimony is true. Therefore, correct them severely, so that they may be healthy in the faith,
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-\v 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for doing any good work.
+\v 15 To those who are pure, all things are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and their consciences have been defiled.
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-\v 1 But you, speak what fits with faithful instruction.
-\v 2 Teach older men to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.
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 \v 4 and so train the younger women to love their husbands and to love their children,
-\v 5 to be sensible, pure, good housekeepers, and to be obedient to their own husbands, so that God's word may not be reproached.
+\v 5 to be sensible, pure, good housekeepers, and to be obedient to their own husbands, so that God's word may not be spoken of as evil.
 
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 \v 7 In all ways present yourself as an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, dignity,
-\v 8 and a correct message that is above criticism, so that anyone who opposes you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
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-\v 22 At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.
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+\v 2 For if the message that was spoken through the angels proved to be so reliable, and every transgression and disobedience receives just repayment,
 \v 3 how then can we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This is salvation that was first announced by the Lord and confirmed to us by those who heard it.
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 \v 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he shared in those things in the same way, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
-\v 15 This was so that he would free all those who through fear of death lived all their lives in slavery.
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-\v 6 But Christ is faithful as a Son who is in charge of the house of God. We are his house if we hold fast to our courage and the hope of which we boast.
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+\v 1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest is still allowed to stand, let us fear, so that none of you may seem to have fallen short of it.
 \v 2 For we were told the good news just as they were. But that message did not benefit those who did not unite in faith with those who obeyed. \f + \ft Some important and ancient copies read, \fqa But that message did not benefit those who heard it without joining faith to it \fqa* . \f*
 
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-\v 24 Let us consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds.
-\v 25 Let us not stop meeting together, as some have done. Instead, encourage one another more and more, and all the more as you see the day coming closer.
+\v 23 Let us also hold firmly to the hope we confess, for he who promised is faithful.
+\v 24 Let us think carefully about how to motivate one another to love and good deeds.
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-\v 29 How much worse punishment do you think one deserves who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, who treated the blood of the covenant as unholy—the blood by which he was sanctified—and insulted the Spirit of grace?
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-\v 39 But we are not any of those who turn back to destruction, but we are among those who have faith and keep their souls.
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+\v 1 Now faith is being fully assured of the things hoped for and certain of things that are not seen.
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+\v 5 It was by faith that Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death. "He was not found, because God took him away." For before he was taken up, it was testified that he had pleased God.
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+\v 13 It was in faith that all these died without receiving the promises. Instead, after seeing and greeting them from far off, they acknowledged that they were foreigners and exiles on earth.
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+\v 32 What more can I say? For the time will fail me if I give a full account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and about the prophets.
 \v 33 It was through faith that they conquered kingdoms, committed righteousness, and received promises. They stopped the mouths of lions,
-\v 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were healed of illnesses, became mighty in battle, and defeated foreign armies.
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-\v 36 Others received mocking and whippings, and even chains and imprisonment.
+\v 36 Others received the experience of mocking and whippings, and even chains and imprisonment.
 \v 37 They were stoned. They were sawn in two. They were killed with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins. They were destitute, oppressed, mistreated. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa They were stoned. They were sawn in two. They were put to the test. They were killed with the sword \fqa* . \f*
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-\v 11 No discipline at the time seems to give joy, but to give pain. But later it produces the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who have been trained by it.
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+\v 22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels in joyful assembly.
 \v 23 You have come to the congregation of the firstborn, who have been registered in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous ones who have been made perfect.
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-\v 19 I encourage you even more to do this, so that I will be returned to you sooner.
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-\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all the things that he created.
+\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all his creatures.
 
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 \v 1 My brothers, do not hold to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality toward certain people.
-\v 2 Suppose that someone enters your meeting wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also enters a poor man in dirty clothes.
+\v 2 Suppose that someone enters your meeting wearing gold rings and splendid clothes, and there also enters a poor man in dirty clothes.
 \v 3 If you look at the person wearing fine clothes and say, "You sit here in a good place," but you say to the poor man, "You stand over there" or "Sit by my footstool,"
 \v 4 are you not judging among yourselves? Have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
 
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 \v 4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility against God? So whoever desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
-\v 5 Or do you think the scripture says in vain, "The Spirit he caused to live in us is deeply jealous"?
+\v 5 Or do you think the scripture says in vain, "The Spirit he caused to live in us is deeply envious"?
 
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 \v 8 Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded people.
-\v 9 Grieve, mourn, and cry! Let your laughter turn into sadness and your joy into gloom.
+\v 9 Grieve, mourn, and cry! Let your laughter turn into mourning and your joy into gloom.
 \v 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
 
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-\v 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. The person who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
+\v 11 Do not speak evil about another, brothers. The person who speaks evil about a brother or judges his brother speaks evil about the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 \v 12 Only one is the lawgiver and judge. He is the one who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you, you who judge your neighbor?
 
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 \v 4 Look, the wages you kept back from the laborers who mowed your fields is crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
 \v 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.
-\v 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous person. He does not resist you.
+\v 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous person. He does not oppose you.
 
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 \v 8 You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now, but you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.
 \v 9 You are now receiving for yourselves the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
-\v 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to come to you, searched diligently and examined carefully,
+\v 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to come to you, searched diligently and inquired carefully,
 
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 \v 15 But as the one who called you is holy, you, too, be holy in your whole behavior.
 \v 16 For it is written, "Be holy, because I am holy."
-\v 17 So if you call "Father" the one who judges impartially and according to each person's work, go through the time of your journey in reverence.
+\v 17 So if you call "Father" the one who judges impartially and according to each person's work, conduct the time of your sojourn in fear.
 
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 \v 18 You know that it was not with perishable silver or gold that you have been redeemed from the futile behavior that you learned from your fathers.
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 \v 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
 
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-\v 22 You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth. This was for the purpose of sincere brotherly love; so love one another earnestly from the heart. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth through the Spirit \fqa* . \f*
+\v 22 You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth. This was for the purpose of sincere brotherly love; so love one another earnestly from a pure heart. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth through the Spirit \fqa* . \f*
 \v 23 You have been born again, not from perishable seed, but from imperishable seed, through the living and remaining word of God.
 
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-\v 13 Be subject to every human authority for the Lord's sake. Obey both the king as supreme,
+\v 13 Be subject to every human creation for the Lord's sake. Obey both the king as supreme,
 \v 14 and also the governors, who are sent for the punishment of evildoers and to praise those who do good.
 \v 15 For this is God's will, that in doing good you silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
 \v 16 As free people, do not use your freedom as a covering for wickedness, but be like servants of God.
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-\v 1 In this way, you who are wives should submit to your own husbands. Do this so even if some men are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word, through their wives' behavior,
+\v 1 In the same way, you who are wives should submit to your own husbands. Do this so even if some men are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word, through their wives' behavior,
 \v 2 having been eyewitnesses of your respectful, pure behavior.
 
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 \v 15 Instead, set apart the Lord Christ in your hearts as holy. Always be ready to give an account to anyone who asks about the hope you have—
-\v 16 however, with meekness and respect. Have a good conscience so that the people who insult your good life in Christ may be ashamed because they are speaking against you as if you were evildoers.
+\v 16 however, with meekness and respect. Have a good conscience so that in whatever you are spoken of as evil the people who revile your good life in Christ may be put to shame.
 \v 17 It is better, if it should be God's will, that you suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
 
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 \v 2 As a result, such a person, for the rest of his time in the flesh, no longer lives for men's desires, but for God's will.
 
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-\v 3 For the time that has passed is enough for you to do the will of the Gentiles, living in sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, drunken celebrations, having wild parties, and committing disgusting acts of idolatry.
+\v 3 For the time that has passed is enough for you to do the desire of the Gentiles, living in sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, drunken celebrations, having wild parties, and committing lawless acts of idolatry.
 \v 4 They think it is strange that you do not join with them in these floods of reckless behavior, so they speak evil about you.
 \v 5 They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
 \v 6 For this purpose the gospel was preached also to the dead, so that, although they have been judged in the flesh as humans, they may live in the spirit the way God does.
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 \v 12 Beloved, do not regard as strange the testing in the fire that has happened to you, as if something strange were happening to you.
 \v 13 Instead, however much you experience the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
-\v 14 If you are insulted for Christ's name, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God is resting on you.
+\v 14 If you are reproached for Christ's name, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God is resting on you.
 
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 \v 1 I am exhorting the elders among you, I, who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and am also one who will share in the glory that will be revealed:
 \v 2 Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God would have you serve—not for shameful profit but eagerly.
-\v 3 Do not act as a master over the people who are in your care. Instead, be an example to the flock.
+\v 3 Do not act as a lord over those allotted to you. Instead, be an example to the flock.
 \v 4 Then when the Chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive an unfading crown of glory.
 
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-\v 5 In the same way, you younger men, submit to the older men. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. For God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.
+\v 5 In the same way, you younger men, submit to the older men. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. For God is opposed to the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.
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 \v 6 Therefore humble yourselves under God's mighty hand so that he may exalt you in due time.
 \v 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
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 \v 9 Stand against him. Be strong in your faith. You know that your brotherhood in the world is enduring the same sufferings.
 
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-\v 10 After you suffer for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect you, establish you, strengthen you, and make you stable.
+\v 10 After you suffer for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect you, confirm you, strengthen you, and make you stable.
 \v 11 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
 
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 \v 5 For this reason, do your best to add goodness to your faith, and to goodness add knowledge,
 \v 6 to knowledge add self-control, to self-control add endurance, to endurance add godliness,
-\v 7 to godliness add brotherly affection, and to brotherly affection add love.
+\v 7 to godliness add brotherly love, and to brotherly love add love.
 
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 \v 7 And he delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the sensual behavior of lawless people—
 \v 8 that righteous man, who was living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul because of their lawless deeds.
-\v 9 The Lord knows how to rescue godly men out of trials and how to hold unrighteous men for punishment at the day of judgment.
+\v 9 The Lord knows how to rescue godly men out of trials and how to hold unrighteous men in custody so they can be punished on the day of judgment.
 
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 \v 10 This is especially true for those who walk after the corrupt desires of the flesh and who despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones.
 \v 11 Angels have greater strength and power, but they do not bring insulting judgments against them to the Lord.
 
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-\v 12 But these people, like unreasoning animals, are naturally made for capture and destruction. They do not know what they insult. In destruction they also will be destroyed,
+\v 12 But these people are like unreasoning animals, born for capture and destruction. They do not know what they insult. In destruction they also will be destroyed,
 \v 13 suffering harm as a reward for doing harm. They think that luxury during the day is a pleasure. They are stains and blemishes. They enjoy their deceitful actions while they are feasting with you. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa They enjoy their deceitful actions while they are feasting with you. \fqa* Other modern translations have something like, \fqa They enjoy their actions while they are feasting with you in love feasts \fqa* . \f*
 \v 14 They have eyes full of adultery; they are never satisfied with sin. They entice unstable souls into wrongdoing, and they have their hearts trained in greed. They are cursed children!
 
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-\v 18 They speak with vain arrogance. They entice people through the lusts of the flesh. They entice people who try to escape from those who live in error.
+\v 18 They speak with vain arrogance. Through the lusts of the flesh, through sensuality, they entice people who are trying to escape from those who live in error.
 \v 19 They promise freedom to them, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever overcomes him.
 
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 \v 11 Woe to them! For they have walked in the way of Cain and have plunged into Balaam's error for profit. They have perished in Korah's rebellion.
 
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-\v 12 These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting with you shamelessly—shepherds who only feed themselves. They are clouds without rain carried along by winds; autumn trees, without fruit—twice dead, uprooted.
+\v 12 These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly—shepherds who only feed themselves. They are clouds without rain carried along by winds; autumn trees, without fruit—twice dead, uprooted.
 \v 13 They are violent waves in the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of complete darkness has been reserved forever.
 
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 \v 14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones.
-\v 15 He is coming to execute judgment on everyone. He is coming to convict all the ungodly of all the works they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
+\v 15 He is coming to execute judgment on everyone. He is coming to convict all the ungodly of all the works they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the bitter words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
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 \v 22 Look! I will throw her onto a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.
-\v 23 I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches thoughts and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
+\v 23 I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches out thoughts and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
 
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 \v 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, to everyone who does not hold this teaching and does not know what some call the deep things of Satan—to you I say, 'I do not put any other burden on you.'
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 \v 1 After these things I looked, and I saw an open door in heaven. The first voice that I had heard was speaking to me like a trumpet, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things."
 \v 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw there a throne placed in heaven, with someone sitting on it.
-\v 3 The one who was sitting on it looked like jasper and carnelian. There was a rainbow around the throne. The rainbow looked like an emerald.
+\v 3 The one who was sitting on it looked like jasper and carnelian. There was a rainbow around the throne. The rainbow was like an emerald in appearance.
 
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 \v 12 When the Lamb opened the sixth seal, I watched and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as black as sackcloth, and the full moon became like blood.
-\v 13 The stars in the heavens fell to the earth, just as a fig tree drops its unripe fruit when shaken by a stormy wind.
+\v 13 The stars in the heavens fell to the earth, just as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a stormy wind.
 \v 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that was being rolled up. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
 
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 \v 9 After these things I looked, and there was a huge multitude that no one could count—from every nation, tribe, people, and language—standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands,
-\v 10 and they were calling out with a loud voice:
+\v 10 and they were crying out with a loud voice:
 \pi "Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
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 \v 2 This beast I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like a bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his power, his throne, and his great authority to rule.
 
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-\v 3 One of the beast's heads to have a fatal wound, but that fatal wound had been healed. The whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.
+\v 3 One of the beast's heads seemed to have a fatal wound, but that fatal wound had been healed. The whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.
 \v 4 They also worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast. They worshiped the beast, too, and kept saying, "Who is like the beast?" and "Who can fight against it?"
 
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 \v 14 I looked, and there was a white cloud. Seated on the cloud was one like a son of man. He had a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
 \v 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called with a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud: "Take your sickle and start to reap. For the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe."
-\v 16 Then the one who was sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
+\v 16 Then the one who was sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
 
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 \v 19 The angel swung his sickle to the earth and harvested the grapevine of the earth. He threw it into the great winepress of God's wrath.
-\v 20 The winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out from it up to the height of a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
+\v 20 The winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood poured out from it up to the height of a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
 
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 \v 2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying,
 \q "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
 \q2 She has become a dwelling place for demons,
-\q a refuge for every unclean spirit,
-\q2 and a refuge for every unclean and detestable bird.
+\q a prison for every unclean spirit,
+\q2 a prison for every unclean bird,
+\q2 a prison for every unclean and detestable animal.
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 \v 3 For all the nations have drunk the wine of her immoral passion.
 \q2 The kings of the earth have committed immorality with her.
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-\v 14 The fruit that you longed for with all your might is gone from you. All your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be found again.
+\v 14 The fruit that you desired with all your might is gone from you. All your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be found again.
 
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-\v 6 Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a great number of people, like the roar of many waters, and like loud crashes of thunder, saying,
+\v 6 Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a great number of people, like the roar of many waters, and like mighty crashes of thunder, saying,
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 \v 11 Then I saw heaven open, and I looked and there was a white horse. The one riding it is called faithful and true. It is with justice that he judges and wages war.
 \v 12 His eyes are like a fiery flame, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but himself.
-\v 13 He wears a robe that was dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
+\v 13 He is clothed with a robe that was dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
 
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+\v 11 Jerusalem had the glory of God, and its brightness was like a very precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.
 \v 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
 \v 13 On the east were three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.
 

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-    - 'Dave Statezni, B.A. Original languages; M.Div. Fuller Theological Seminary'
+    - 'Alrick G. Headley, M.Div.; Th.M.'
     - 'Bram van den Heuvel, M.A.'
     - 'C. Harry Harriss, M.Div.'
+    - 'Dave Statezni, B.A. Original Languages; M.Div. Fuller Theological Seminary'
     - 'David Trombold, M.Div.'
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-    - 'Larry Sallee, D.Min.' 
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+    - 'John Hutchins, B.A. in Bible and Theology; M.A. in New Testament; M.A. in Biblical Languages'
+    - 'Larry T. Brooks, M.Div., Assemblies of God Theological Seminary'
+    - 'Larry Sallee, D.Min.'
+    - 'Paul M. Fahnestock, M.Div. Reformed Theological Seminary; D.Min. Pittsburgh Theological Seminary'
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     - 'James Vigen'
     - 'Leonard Smith'
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     - 'Michael Francis'
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