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 \v 14 It came about that when Abram entered into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.
 \v 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's household.
-\v 16 Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram received sheep and oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
+\v 16 Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
 
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 \v 17 Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
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 \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 oxen, and male slaves 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.
 
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 \v 15 Abimelek said, "Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever it pleases you."
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 \v 11 This thing was very grievous to Abraham because of his son.
 
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-\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."
 
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 \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.
 
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-\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."
 
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-\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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 \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.
 
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-\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.
 
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 \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.
 
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 \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."
 
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 \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."
 
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 \v 15 The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven
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 \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."
 
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 \v 5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying,
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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 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 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away. Jacob went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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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 26 Laban said, "It is not our custom to give the younger daughter before the firstborn.
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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 3 She said, "See, there is my servant Bilhah. Go to her, so she might give birth to children on my knees, and I will have children by her."
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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 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.'