diff --git a/07-JDG/08.usfm b/07-JDG/08.usfm
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-\v 6 But the leaders of Succoth replied, "Right now you are ready to capture Zebah and Zalmunna and put them under your power as prisoners. You are strong enough to get food for yourself. You have no reason to try and force us to give you food."
+\v 6 But the leaders of Succoth replied, "You are ready to capture Zebah and Zalmunna and put them under your power as prisoners. You are strong enough to get food for yourself. So why should we give bread to your army?"
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 \v 7 Gideon replied, "Because you said that, Yahweh will help us capture Zebah and Zalmunna and take them from you. We will come to you and we will make whips from the thorns and sharp barbs that grow in the desert. We will use those thorns and barbs to tear your flesh to pieces!"
 
diff --git a/07-JDG/09.usfm b/07-JDG/09.usfm
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 \v 4 So the leaders of Shechem took from the temple of their god Baal Berith almost one kilo of silver and gave it to Abimelech. With that silver he paid some worthless troublemakers to help him, and they went with Abimelech wherever he went.
 
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-\v 5 They went to Ophrah, his father's town, and murdered sixty-nine of his seventy brothers, the sons of his father Gideon. They killed all those men on one huge rock. But Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid from Abimelech and his men, and he escaped.
+\v 5 Abimelech went to Ophrah, his father's town, and he murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of his father Gideon. They killed all those men on one huge rock. But Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid from Abimelech and his men, and he escaped.
 \v 6 Then all the leaders of the towns of Shechem and Bethmillo gathered under the big sacred tree at Shechem. There they appointed Abimelech to be their leader.
 
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