diff --git a/01-GEN/29.usfm b/01-GEN/29.usfm
index c2ad5813..6cbd3c51 100644
--- a/01-GEN/29.usfm
+++ b/01-GEN/29.usfm
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 \v 15 Then Laban said to him "You should not work for me for nothing just because you are a relative of mine! Tell me how much you want me to pay you."
 \v 16 Now Laban had two daughters. The older one was named Leah, and the younger one was named Rachel.
 \v 17 Leah had pretty eyes, but Rachel had a very attractive figure and was beautiful.
-\v 18 Jacob was in love with Rachel, and he said, "I will work for you for seven years. That will be my payment for your letting me marry your younger daughter, Rachel."
+\v 18 Jacob was in love with Rachel, and he said, "I will work for you for seven years. That will be my payment for you giving me permission to marry your younger daughter, Rachel."
 
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 \v 19 Laban replied, "It is better for me to let you marry her than for her to marry some other man! You should stay here with us."
diff --git a/03-LEV/25.usfm b/03-LEV/25.usfm
index 8538b1b5..062c29e6 100644
--- a/03-LEV/25.usfm
+++ b/03-LEV/25.usfm
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 18 Obey all my laws carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country 
+\v 18 Obey all my laws carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country. 
 \v 19 The crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
 
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diff --git a/05-DEU/21.usfm b/05-DEU/21.usfm
index 253ac0fa..1f6e3edd 100644
--- a/05-DEU/21.usfm
+++ b/05-DEU/21.usfm
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
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 \v 10 When you who are soldiers go to fight against your enemies, and Yahweh our God enables you to defeat them, and they become your prisoners,
 \v 11 one of you may see among them a beautiful woman that he likes, and he may want to marry her.
-\v 12 He should take her to his home, and there she must shave all the hair off her head and cut her fingernails to signify that now she does not belong to her people group anymore, but that instead she is becoming an Israelite.
+\v 12 He should take her to his home, and there she must shave all the hair off her head and cut her fingernails to signify that now she does not belong to her people group anymore, but now she is becoming an Israelite.
 
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 \v 13 She must take off the clothes that she was wearing when she was captured, and put on Israelite clothes. She must stay in that man's house and mourn for a month because of leaving her parents. After that, he will be allowed to marry her.