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 \v 54 The man who is tender and very delicate among you—he will be envious of his brother and his own dear wife, and of whatever children he has left.
-\v 55 So he will not give to any of them the flesh of his own children that he is going to eat, because he will have nothing left for himself in the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within all your city gates.
+\v 55 So he will not give to any of them the flesh of his own children that he is going to eat, because he will have nothing left for himself in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will oppress you within all your city gates.
 
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 \v 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to put the bottom of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness—she will be envious of her own dear husband, of her son, and of her daughter,
-\v 57 and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within your city gates.
+\v 57 and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will oppress you within your city gates.
 
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 \v 5 I have led you for forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.
-\v 6 You did not eat any bread, and you did not drink any wine or other alcoholic drinks, so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.
+\v 6 You did not eat any bread, and you did not drink any wine or other strong drink, so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 7 When you came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us to fight, and we struck them down.
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 \v 17 You have seen their disgusting idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, that were among them.
-\v 18 Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.
+\v 18 Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces poison fruit and wormwood.
 \v 19 When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.
 
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-\v 1 When all these things have come on you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, and when you call them to mind among all the other nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
+\v 1 When all these things have come on you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, and when you call them to mind among all the other nations where Yahweh your God has banished you,
 \v 2 and when you return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice, following all that I am commanding you today— you and your children—with all your heart and with all your soul,
 \v 3 then Yahweh your God will reverse your captivity and have compassion on you; he will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
 
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 \v 8 You will return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I am commanding you today.
 
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-\v 9 Yahweh your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for prosperity. For Yahweh will again delight in making you prosperous, as he took delight in your fathers.
+\v 9 Yahweh your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for prosperity. For Yahweh will again delight in making you prosperous, as he rejoiced over your fathers.
 \v 10 He will do this if you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God, so as to keep his commandments and regulations that are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul.
 
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 \v 20 For when I will have brought them into the land that I swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, and when they have eaten and become satisfied and prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and they will serve them and they will despise me and they will break my covenant.
 
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-\v 21 When many evils and troubles come upon this people, this song will testify before them as a witness (for it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants). For I know the plans that they are forming today, even before I have brought them into the land that I promised them."
+\v 21 When many evils and troubles come upon this people, this song will testify before them as a witness (for it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants). For I know the plans that they are forming today, even before I have brought them into the land that I swore to them."
 
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 \v 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.
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 \q They are a perverted and crooked generation.
 \q
 \v 6 Do you reward Yahweh in this way,
-\q you foolish and senseless people?
+\q you foolish and unwise people?
 \q Is he not your Father, the one who has created you?
 \q He made you and established you.
 
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 \v 7 Call to mind the days of ancient times,
-\q think about the years of many ages past.
+\q think about the years of generations past.
 \q Ask your father and he will show you,
 \q your elders and they will tell you.
 \q
 \v 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance—
 \q when he divided all of mankind,
-\q and he set the boundaries of the peoples,
-\q as he also fixed the number of their gods.
+\q and he set the boundaries of the peoples
+\q according to the number of the children of Israel.
 
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 \q with fat of lambs,
 \q rams of Bashan and goats,
 \q with the finest of the wheat—
-\q and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes.
+\q and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of grapes.
 
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 \v 20 "I will hide my face from them," he said,
 \q "and I will see what their end will be;
 \q for they are a perverse generation,
-\q children who are unfaithful.
+\q children in whom is no faithfulness.
 
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 \v 22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
 \q and is burning to the lowest Sheol;
-\q it is devouring the earth and its harvest;
+\q it is devouring the earth and its produce;
 \q it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains.
 
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-\v 28 For Israel is a nation devoid of wisdom,
+\v 28 For Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
 \q and there is no understanding in them.
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 \v 29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
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 \q and Yahweh had given them up?
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 \v 31 For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock,
-\q just as even our enemies admit.
+\q just as even our enemies have concluded.
 
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 \v 10 There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face.
 \v 11 There has never been any prophet like him in all the signs and wonders that Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land.
-\v 12 There has never been any prophet like him in all the great, fearsome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
+\v 12 There has never been any prophet like him in all the mighty, fearsome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.