Ezra readthrough TW

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 \v 3 Then they established the altar on its stand, for dread was on them because of the people of the land. They offered burnt offerings to Yahweh at dawn and evening.
-\v 4 They also observed the Festival of Shelters as it is written, and offered burnt offerings day by day according to the decree, each's day's duty on its day.
-\v 5 Accordingly, there were daily burnt offerings and monthly ones, and offerings for all the fixed feasts of Yahweh, along with all the freewill offerings.
+\v 4 They also observed the Festival of Shelters as it is written and offered burnt offerings day by day according to the decree, each's day's duty on its day.
+\v 5 Accordingly, there were daily burnt offerings and monthly ones and offerings for all the fixed feasts of Yahweh, along with all the freewill offerings.
  
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 \v 6 They began to offer up burnt offerings to Yahweh on the first day of the seventh month, although the temple had not been founded.

15-EZR/04.usfm

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 \v 20 Mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem and had power over everything beyond the River. Tribute and taxes were paid to them.
 \v 21 Now, make a decree for these men to stop and not build this city until I make a decree.
-\v 22 Be careful not to neglect this. Why should damage increase to injure kings?"
+\v 22 Be careful not to neglect this. Why allow this threat to grow and cause more loss for the royal interests?
  
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 \v 11 I am ordering that if anyone violates this decree, a beam must be pulled from his house and he must be impaled on it. His house must then be turned into a rubbish heap because of this.
-\v 12 May the God who lives there overthrow any king and people who violates this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, am ordering this. Do it completely!"
+\v 12 May the God who lives there overthrow any king and people who violates this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, am ordering this. Let it be done diligently!"
  
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 \v 13 Then Tattenai, Shethar Bozenai, and their companions did everything that King Darius had ordered.

15-EZR/07.usfm

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 \v 11 This was the decree that King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest and scribe of Yahweh's commandments and statutes for Israel:
 \v 12 "The King of kings Artaxerxes, to the priest Ezra, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven:
-\v 13 I am ordering that anyone from Israel in my kingdom, along with their priests and Levites, who desires to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
+\v 13 I am ordering that anyone from Israel in my kingdom along with their priests and Levites who desires to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
  
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 \v 14 I, the king, and my seven counselors, send you all out to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to God's law that you understand,

15-EZR/08.usfm

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 \v 21 Then I proclaimed a fast at the Ahava Canal to humble ourselves before God, to seek a straight path from him for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.
-\v 22 I was embarrassed to ask the king for an army or horsemen to protect us against enemies along the way, since we had said to the king, 'The hand of our God is on all who seek him for good, but his might and wrath are on all who forget him.'
+\v 22 I was ashamed to ask the king for an army or horsemen to protect us against enemies along the way, since we had said to the king, 'The hand of our God is on all who seek him for good, but his might and wrath are on all who forget him.'
 \v 23 So we fasted and sought God about this, and we pled to him.
  
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-\v 35 The ones who came back from the captivity, the people of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male 
-goats as a sin offering. All were a burnt offering for Yahweh.
+\v 35 The ones who came back from the captivity, the people of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering. All were a burnt offering for Yahweh.
 \v 36 Then they gave the king's decrees to the king's high officials and the governors beyond the River, and they helped the people and God's house."

15-EZR/09.usfm

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 \v 2 For they have taken some of their daughters and sons, and have mixed the holy people with the people of other lands. And the officials and leaders have been first in this faithlessness.'
  
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-\v 3 When I heard this, I ripped my clothing and robe and tore the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat ashamed.
+\v 3 When I heard this, I tore apart my clothing and robe and pulled out hair from my head and beard, and I sat down, devastated.
 \v 4 All those who trembled at the words of the God of Israel about this faithlessness gathered to me while I was sitting ashamed until the evening offering.
  
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 \v 5 But at the evening offering I arose from my position of humiliation in my torn clothes and robe, and knelt down and spread my hands to Yahweh my God.
-\v 6 I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and too humiliated to raise my face to you, for our iniquities increase over our head, and our guilt grows to the heavens.
+\v 6 I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and disgraced to raise my face to you, for our iniquities increase over our head, and our guilt grows to the heavens.
  
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 \v 7 From the days of our ancestors until now we have been in great guilt. In our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests were given into the hand of this world's kings, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder and ashamed faces, as we are today.

15-EZR/10.usfm

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 \v 1 As Ezra prayed and confessed, he wept and threw himself down before God's house. A very great assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered to him, for the people were weeping very greatly.
-\v 2 Shekaniah son of Jehiel of the descendants of Elam said to Ezra, "We ourselves have committed treason against our God and have lived with foreign women from the people of the other lands. But now there is hope for Israel concerning this.
+\v 2 Shekaniah son of Jehiel of the descendants of Elam said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the people of the other lands. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.
  
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 \v 3 So now let us make a covenant with our God to send out all the women and their children according to the Lord's instructions and the instructions of those who tremble at the commands of our God, and let it be done according to the law.
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-\v 5 So Ezra rose and made the priestly officials, the Levites, and all of Israel promise to act in this way. They promised.
+\v 5 So Ezra rose and made the priestly officials, the Levites, and all of Israel promise to act in this way. So they all took a solemn oath.
 \v 6 Then Ezra rose from before God's house and went to the rooms of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat any bread or drink any water, since he was mourning concerning the faithlessness of those who had been in captivity.
  
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