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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
 \v 2 "Speak to all the assembly of the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must be holy, for I Yahweh your God am holy.
 \v 3 Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
-\v 4 Do not turn to worthless idols, nor make for yourselves gods out of metal. I am Yahweh your God.
+\v 4 Do not turn to worthless idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods. I am Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 5 When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must offer it that you may be accepted.
 \v 6 It must be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it must be burned up with fire.
-\v 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean meat; it must not be accepted,
+\v 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is a foul thing; it must not be accepted,
 \v 8 and everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has defiled what is holy to Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from his people.
 
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-\v 9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not completely reap the corners of your field, neither will you gather all the produce of your harvest.
+\v 9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not completely reap the corners of your field, neither will you gather all the gleanings of your harvest.
 \v 10 You must not gather every grape from your vineyard, nor gather the grapes that have fallen on the ground in your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 15 Do not cause judgment to be false. You must not show favoritism to someone because he is poor, and you must not show favoritism to someone because he is important. Instead, judge your neighbor righteously.
+\v 15 Do not cause judgment to be false. You must not show favoritism to someone because he is poor, and you must not show favoritism to someone because he is important. Instead, judge your neighbor justly.
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 \v 16 Do not walk around spreading slander among your people, but seek to protect your neighbor's life. I am Yahweh.
 
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 \v 23 When you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you must regard the fruit they produce as forbidden to be eaten. The fruit must be forbidden to you for three years. It must not be eaten.
-\v 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to Yahweh.
+\v 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy, a sacrifice of praise to Yahweh.
 \v 25 In the fifth you may eat the fruit, having waited so that the trees might produce more. I am Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 26 Do not eat any meat with blood still in it.
-\p Do not consult spirits about the future, and do not seek to control others by supernatural powers.
+\p Do not practice divination or sorcery.
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 \v 27 You will not round off the corners of the hair on the sides of your head or shave off the edge of your beard.
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-\v 35 Do not use false measures when measuring length, weight, or quantity.
+\v 35 Do no injustice when measuring length, weight, or quantity.
 \v 36 You must use just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
 \v 37 You must obey all my decrees and all my laws, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"
 
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 \v 8 You must keep my commands and carry them out. I am Yahweh who sets you apart as holy.
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-\v 9 Everyone who curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, so he is guilty and deserves to die.
+\v 9 Everyone who curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, so his blood is upon him.
 
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 \v 11 If a man lies with his father's wife, he uncovers his father's nakedness. Both the son and his father's wife must certainly be put to death. Their blood is upon them.
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-\v 12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them must certainly be put to death. They have committed perversion. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them must certainly be put to death. They have committed perversion. Their blood is upon them.
 
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-\v 13 If a man lies with another man, as with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must surely be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 13 If a man lies with another man, as with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.
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 \v 14 If a man marries a woman and also marries her mother, this is wickedness. They must be burned, both he and the women, so that there will be no wickedness among you.
 
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 \v 15 If a man lies with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
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-\v 16 If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must certainly be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 16 If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must certainly be put to death.  Their blood is upon them.
 
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 \v 20 If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They will bear responsibility for their sin, and they will die childless.
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-\v 21 If a man marries his brother’s wife while his brother is still living, that is disgraceful. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.
+\v 21 If a man marries his brother’s wife, that is abhorrent. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.
 
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 \v 22 You must therefore keep all my statutes and all my decrees; you must obey them so that the land into which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you up.
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-\v 23 You must not walk in the customs of the nations that I will drive out before you, for they have done all these things, and I detest them.
+\v 23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nations that I will drive out before you, for they have done all these things, and I detest them.
 
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 \v 24 I said to you, "You will inherit their land; I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the other peoples.
-\v 25 You must therefore distinguish between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean birds and the clean. You must not defile yourselves with unclean animals or birds or with any creature that crawls along the ground, which I have separated as unclean from you.
+\v 25 You must therefore distinguish between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean birds and the clean. You must not make yourselves detestable with unclean animals or birds or with any creature that crawls along the ground, which I have separated as unclean from you.
 
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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. They are guilty and deserve to die.'"
+\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.'"
 
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 \v 6 They must be holy to their God and not disgrace the name of their God, because the priests offer Yahweh's food offerings, the bread of their God. Therefore the priests must be holy.
 
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-\v 7 They must not marry any woman who is a prostitute and who is defiled, and they must not marry a woman divorced from her husband, for they are separate for their God.
+\v 7 They must not marry any woman who is a prostitute and who is defiled, and they must not marry a woman divorced from her husband, for he is holy to his God.
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 \v 8 You will set him apart, for he is the one who offers bread to your God. He must be holy to you, because I, Yahweh who makes you holy, am holy.
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