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 \v 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
 \v 2 The earth was without form and empty. Darkness was upon the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God was moving above the surface of the waters.
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 \v 3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
 \v 4 God saw the light, that it was good. He divided the light from the darkness.

01-GEN/06.usfm

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 \v 4 Giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. This happened when the sons of God married daughters of men, and they had children with them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
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 \v 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

01-GEN/12.usfm

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 \v 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him to do, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
 \v 5 Abram took Sarai, his wife, Lot, his brother's son, all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Haran. They left to go into the land of Canaan, and came to the land of Canaan.
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 \v 6 Abram passed through the land as far as Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites lived in the land.
 \v 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So there Abram built an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

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01-GEN/31.usfm

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 \v 55 Early in the morning Laban got up, kissed his grandsons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.
 
 
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01-GEN/33.usfm

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 \v 20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
 
 
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01-GEN/34.usfm

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 \v 31 But Simeon and Levi said, "Should Shechem have dealt with our sister as with a prostitute?"
 
 
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01-GEN/35.usfm

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 \v 29 Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his ancestors, an old man full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
 
 
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01-GEN/36.usfm

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 \v 43 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the clan heads of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.
 
 
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01-GEN/38.usfm

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 \v 30 Then his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread upon his hand, and he was named Zerah.
 
 
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01-GEN/39.usfm

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 \v 23 The prison warden did not worry about anything that was in his hand, because Yahweh was with him. Whatever he did, Yahweh prospered.
 
 
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01-GEN/40.usfm

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 \v 23 Yet the chief of the  did not remember to help Joseph. Instead, he forgot about him.
 
 
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01-GEN/41.usfm

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 \v 57 All the earth was coming to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
 
 
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01-GEN/42.usfm

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 \v 38 Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the road in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol."
 
 
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01-GEN/43.usfm

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 \v 34 Joseph sent portions to them from the food in front of him. But Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of his brothers. They drank and were merry with him.
 
 
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01-GEN/45.usfm

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 \v 12 Look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
 \v 13 You will tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and of all that you have seen. You will hurry and bring my father down here."
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 \v 14 He hugged his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
 \v 15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After that his brothers talked with him.

01-GEN/50.usfm

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 \v 10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned with very great and grievous sorrow. There Joseph made a seven day mourning for his father.
 \v 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why the place was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 
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 \v 12 So his sons did for Jacob just as he had instructed them.
 \v 13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. Abraham had bought the cave with the field for a burial place. He had bought it from Ephron the Hittite.
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 \v 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, together with his father's family. He lived one hundred ten years.
 \v 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. He also saw the children of Machir son of Manasseh, who were placed on the knees of Joseph. 
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 \v 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will surely come to you and lead you up out of this land to the land which he swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
 \v 25 Then Joseph made the people of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to you. At that time you must carry up my bones from here."

02-EXO/10.usfm

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 \v 28 Pharaoh said to Moses, "Go from me! Be careful about one thing, that you do not see me again, for on the day you see my face, you will die."
 \v 29 Moses said, "You yourself have spoken. I will not see your face again."
 
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02-EXO/15.usfm

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 \v 13 In your covenant loyalty you have led the people you have rescued.
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 \v 14 The peoples will hear, and they will tremble;

02-EXO/16.usfm

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02-EXO/25.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
 \v 2 "Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me from every person who is motivated by a willing heart. You must receive these offerings for me.
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 \v 4 blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen; goats' hair;

02-EXO/26.usfm

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 \v 31 You must make a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen, with designs of cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
 \v 32 You must hang it on four pillars of acacia wood covered with gold. These pillars must have hooks of gold set on four silver bases.
 \v 33 You must hang up the curtain under the clasps, and you must bring in the ark of the covenant decrees. The curtain is to separate the holy place from the most holy place.
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 \v 34 You must put the atonement lid on the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the most holy place.
 \v 35 You must place the table outside the curtain. You must place the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. The table must be on the north side.

02-EXO/28.usfm

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 \v 28 They must tie the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod's rings with a blue cord, so that it might be attached just above the ephod's woven waistband. This is so that the breastpiece might not become unattached from the ephod.
 
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-\v 29 When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of Israel's twelve sons in the breastpiece for decision making on his heart. This will serve as a constant reminder to Yahweh.
+\v 29 When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of the people of Israel over his heart in the breastpiece for decision making, as a continuing memorial before Yahweh.
-\v 30 You must put in the breastpiece for decision making the Urim and the Thummim. They must be on Aaron's breast when he goes in before Yahweh, and Aaron must constantly carry the decision making for the Israelites on his breast before Yahweh.
+\v 30 You are to put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastpiece for decision making, so they may be over Aaron's heart when he goes in before Yahweh. Thus Aaron will always carry the means for making decisions for the people of Israel over his heart before Yahweh.
 
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02-EXO/29.usfm

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 \v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh, and it will be your share.
-\v 27 You must set apart to me the breast of the offering of the wave offering and the thigh of the offering that is waved, and the thigh that is contribution for the priests , both breat that was waved and the thigh that was contributed for Aaron and his sons.
+\v 27 You must set apart to me the breast of the wave offering that is waved, and the thigh that is the contribution for the priests—both the breast that was waved and the thigh that was contributed for Aaron and his sons.
-\v 28 These portions of meat, given by the Israelites, must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
+\v 28 These portions of meat given by the Israelites must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
 
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 \v 29 The holy garments of Aaron must also be reserved for his sons after him. They are to be anointed in them and ordained to me in them.

03-LEV/02.usfm

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 \v 16 Then the priest will burn part of the crushed grain and oil and incense as a representative offering. This is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
 
 
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03-LEV/04.usfm

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 \v 4 He must bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, lay his hand on its head, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
 \v 5 The anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and take it to the tent of meeting.
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 \v 6 The priest will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before Yahweh, before the curtain of the most holy place.
 \v 7 And the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting, and he will pour out all the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

03-LEV/07.usfm

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 \v 15 The person presenting a peace offering for the purpose of giving thanks must eat the meat of his offering on the day of the sacrifice. He must not leave any of it until the next morning.
 \v 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is for the purpose of a vow, or for the purpose of a freewill offering, the meat must be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, but whatever remains of it may be eaten on the next day.
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 \v 17 However, whatever meat of the sacrifice remains on the third day must be burned.
 \v 18 If any of the meat of the sacrifice of one's peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither will it be credited to the one who offered it. It will be a disgusting thing, and the person who eats it will carry the guilt of his sin.

03-LEV/08.usfm

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 \v 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.
 \v 26 Out of the basket of bread without yeast that was before Yahweh, he took one loaf without yeast, and one loaf of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
 \v 27 He put it all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them before Yahweh as a wave offering.
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 \v 28 Then Moses took them from off their hands and burned them on the altar for the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering and produced a sweet aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
 \v 29 Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering to Yahweh. It was Moses' share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.

03-LEV/09.usfm

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 \v 8 So Aaron went near the altar and killed the calf for the sin offering, which was for himself.
 \v 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into it and put it on the horns of the altar; then he poured out the blood at the base of the altar.
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 \v 10 However, he burned the fat, the kidneys, and the covering of the liver on the altar as a sin offering, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 \v 11 And he burned the meat and the hide outside the camp.

03-LEV/17.usfm

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 \v 10 And anyone of Israel, or any foreigner who lives among them, who consumes any blood, I will set my face against that person, anyone who consumes blood; I will cut him off from among his people.
 \v 11 For the life of an animal is in its blood. I have given its blood to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, because it is the blood that makes atonement, for it is the blood that atones for the life.
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 \v 12 Therefore I said to the people of Israel that no one among you must eat blood, neither may any foreigner who lives among you eat blood.
 \v 13 And anyone of the people of Israel, or any of the foreigners who live among them, who hunts and kills an animal or bird that may be eaten, that person must pour out its blood and cover the blood with earth.

03-LEV/18.usfm

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 \v 22 Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.
 \v 23 Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.
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 \v 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.

03-LEV/21.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses: "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'No one among you shall make himself unclean for those who die among his people,
 \v 2 except for his closest relatives—his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
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03-LEV/22.usfm

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 \v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am Yahweh."
 
 
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03-LEV/23.usfm

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 \v 15 Beginning from the day after the Sabbath—that was the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering—count seven full weeks.
 \v 16 You must count fifty days, which would be the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you must present an offering of new grain to Yahweh. 
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 \v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be a wave offering of the firstfruits to Yahweh.
 \v 18 You must present with the bread seven lambs one year old and without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They must be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire and producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
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 \v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
 \v 24 "Speak to the people of Israel and say, 'In the seventh month, the first day of that month will be a solemn rest for you, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets, and a holy assembly.
 \v 25 You must do no ordinary work, and you must offer a sacrifice made by fire to Yahweh.'"
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03-LEV/24.usfm

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 \v 7 You must put pure incense along each row of loaves as a representative offering. This incense will be burnt for Yahweh.
 \v 8 Every Sabbath day the high priest must regularly set out the bread before Yahweh on behalf of the people of Israel, as a sign of an everlasting covenant.
 \v 9 This offering will be for Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a place that is holy, for it is a portion from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire."
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 \v 10 Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against an Israelite man in the camp.

03-LEV/25.usfm

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 \v 5 You must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grows by itself, and you must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grapes grow on your unpruned vines. This will be a year of solemn rest for the land.
 \v 6 Whatever the unworked land grows during the Sabbath year will be food for you. You, your male and female servants, your hired servants and the foreigners who live with you may gather food.
 \v 7 And your livestock and also wild animals may eat whatever the land produces.
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 \v 8 You must count off seven Sabbaths of years, that is, seven times seven years, so that there will be seven Sabbaths of years, totaling forty-nine years.
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 \v 10 You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families.
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 \v 11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You must not plant or conduct an organized harvest. Eat whatever grows by itself, and gather the grapes that grow on the unpruned vines.
 \v 12 For it is a Jubilee, which will be holy for you. You must eat the produce that grows by itself out of the fields.
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 \v 47 If a foreigner or someone living temporarily with you has become wealthy, and if one of your fellow Israelites has become poor and sells himself to that foreigner, or to someone in a foreigner's family,
 \v 48 after your fellow Israelite has been bought, he may be bought back. Someone in his family may redeem him.
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 \v 49 It might be the person's uncle, or his uncle's son, who redeems him, or anyone who is his close relative from his family. Or, if he has become prosperous, he may redeem himself.
 \v 50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.

04-NUM/01.usfm

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04-NUM/29.usfm

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 \v 40 Moses told the people of Israel everything that Yahweh had commanded him to say.
 
 
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04-NUM/36.usfm

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 \v 13 These are the commands and the decrees that Yahweh gave by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
 
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05-DEU/02.usfm

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 \v 37 It was only to the land of the descendants of Ammon that you did not go, as well as all the side of the Jabbok River, and the cities of the hill country—wherever Yahweh our God had forbidden us to go.
 
 
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05-DEU/05.usfm

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 \v 33 You will walk in all the ways that Yahweh your God has commanded you, so that you may live, and so that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
 
 
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05-DEU/06.usfm

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 \v 25 If we keep all these commands before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us, this will be our righteousness.'
 
 
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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 \v 20 Moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left and who hide themselves from you perish from your presence.
 \v 21 You will not be frightened at them, for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and fearsome God.
 \v 22 Yahweh your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. You will not defeat them all at once, or the wild animals would become very many around you.
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 \v 23 But Yahweh your God will give you victory over them when you meet them in battle; he will greatly confuse them until they are destroyed.
 \v 24 He will put their kings under your power, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
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 \v 25 You will burn the carved figures of their gods—do not covet the silver or the gold that covers them and take it for yourself, because if you do, you will become trapped by it—for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
 \v 26 You will not bring any abomination into your house and start to worship it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

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 \v 20 Like the nations that Yahweh is making to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
 
 
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05-DEU/10.usfm

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 \v 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy persons; now Yahweh your God has made you as many as the stars of the heavens.
 
 
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05-DEU/11.usfm

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 \v 32 You will keep all the statutes and the decrees that I set before you today.
 
 
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05-DEU/12.usfm

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 \v 32 Whatever I command you, observe it. Do not add to it or take away from it.
 
 
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05-DEU/13.usfm

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 \v 12 If you hear anyone say about one of your cities, that Yahweh your God gives you to live in:
 \v 13 Some wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city and said, 'Let us go and worship other gods that you have not known.'
 \v 14 Then you will examine the evidence, make search, and investigate it thoroughly. When you discover that it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you, then you will take action. 
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 \v 15 You will surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, completely destroy it and all the people who are in it, along with its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
 \v 16 You will gather all the spoil from it into the middle of its street and will burn the city, as well as all its spoil—for Yahweh your God. The city will be a heap of ruins forever; it must never be built again.
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 \v 18 He will do this because you are listening to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
 
 
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05-DEU/14.usfm

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 \v 29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.
 
 
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 \v 23 Only you must not eat its blood; you must pour its blood out on the ground like water.
 
 
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05-DEU/16.usfm

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 \v 22 Neither must you set up for yourself any sacred stone pillar, which Yahweh your God hates.
 
 
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05-DEU/17.usfm

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 \v 20 He must do this so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so that he does not turn away from the commandments, to the right hand or to the left; for the purpose that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, among Israel.
 
 
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 \v 22 You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.
 
 
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05-DEU/19.usfm

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 \v 21 Your eyes must not pity; life will pay for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
 
 
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05-DEU/20.usfm

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 \v 16 In the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must save alive nothing that breathes.
 \v 17 Instead, you must completely destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you.
 \v 18 Do this so that they do not teach you to act in any of their abominable ways, as they have done with their gods. If you do, you will sin against Yahweh your God.
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 \v 19 When you will besiege a city for a long time, as you wage war against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. For you may eat from them, so you must not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man whom you should besiege?
 \v 20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you may destroy and cut down; you will build siege works against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
 
 
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 \v 23 then his body must not remain all night on the tree. Instead, you must surely bury him the same day; for whoever is hanged is cursed by God. Obey this commandment so that you do not defile the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.
 
 
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 \v 8 When you build a new house, then you must make a railing for your roof so that you do not bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
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 \v 9 You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, so that the whole harvest is not confiscated by the holy place, the seed that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
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 \v 30 A man must not take his father's wife as his own; he must not take away his father's marriage rights.
 
 
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05-DEU/23.usfm

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 \v 25 When you go into your neighbor's ripe grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but do not put a sickle to your neighbor's ripe grain.
 
 
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 \v 22 You must call to mind that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I instruct you to obey this command.
 
 
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05-DEU/25.usfm

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 \v 19 Therefore, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you must not forget that you must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
 
 
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05-DEU/26.usfm

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 \v 19 Yahweh has today acknowledged that he will set you high above all the other nations that he has made, in respect to praise, to reputation, and to honor. You will be a people that is set apart to Yahweh your God, just as he said."
 
 
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05-DEU/27.usfm

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 \v 26 'May the man be cursed who does not confirm the words of this law, that he will obey them.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
 
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05-DEU/28.usfm

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 \v 68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again by ships, by the route about which I had said to you, 'You will not see Egypt again.' There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will purchase you."
 
 
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05-DEU/29.usfm

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 \v 29 The secret matters belong alone to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong forever to us and to our descendants, so that we may do all the words of this law.
 
 
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05-DEU/30.usfm

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 \v 20 Do this so as to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him. For he is your life and the length of your days; do this so that you may live in the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
 
 
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05-DEU/32.usfm

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 \v 16 They made Yahweh jealous by their strange gods;
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 \v 17 They sacrificed to demons, which are not God—
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05-DEU/33.usfm

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06-JOS/02.usfm

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 \v 8 The men had not yet lain down for the night, when she came up to them on the roof.
 \v 9 She said, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land and that the fear of you has come upon us. All those who live in the land will melt away before you.
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 \v 10 We have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds for you when you came out of Egypt. And we heard what you did to the two kings of the Amorites on other side of the Jordan—Sihon and Og—whom you completely destroyed.
 \v 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted and there was no courage left in anyone—for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above and on the earth below.
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 \v 18 When we come into the land, you must tie this scarlet rope in the window through which you let us down, and you will gather into the house your father and mother, your brothers and all your father's household.
 \v 19 Whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, their blood will be upon their own heads and we will be guiltless. But if a hand is laid upon any who is with you in the house, his blood will be on our head.
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 \v 20 But if you speak about our business, we will be free from the oath you made us swear."
 \v 21 Rahab replied, "May what you say be done." She sent them away and they left. Then she tied the scarlet rope in the window.

06-JOS/04.usfm

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 \v 17 So, Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
 \v 18 When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of their feet were lifted up out on dry ground, then the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed its banks, just as they were four days before.
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 \v 19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. They stayed in Gilgal, east of Jericho.

06-JOS/05.usfm

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 \v 4 And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males who had come out of Egypt, including all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out from Egypt.
 \v 5 Though all the males who came out of Egypt were circumcised, still, none of the boys born in the wilderness on the way out of Egypt had been circumcised.
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 \v 6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the people, that is, all the men of war who had come out of Egypt, died, because they did not obey the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to their ancestors that he would give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
 \v 7 It was their children that Yahweh raised up in their place that Joshua circumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
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 \v 8 When they were all circumcised, they remained where they were in the camp until they healed.
 \v 9 And Yahweh said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you." So, the name of that place has been called Gilgal until this present day.

06-JOS/09.usfm

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 \v 3 When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
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+\v 4 they acted with a cunning plan. They went as messengers. They took worn-out sacks and put them on their donkeys. They also took old wine skins that were worn, torn, and had been repaired.
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 \v 5 They put old and patched sandals on their feet, and dressed in old, worn-out clothing. All the bread in their food supply was dry and moldy.
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 \v 6 Then they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have traveled from a very far country, so now make a covenant with us."
 \v 7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live near us. How can we make a covenant with you?"
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 \v 11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, 'Take provisions in your hand for the journey. Go to meet them and say to them, "We are your servants. Make a treaty with us."
 \v 12 This is our bread, it was still warm when we took it from our houses on the day we set out to come to you. But now, see, it is dry and moldy.
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 \v 14 So the Israelites took some of their provisions, but they did not consult with Yahweh for guidance.
 \v 15 Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The leaders of the people also made a vow to them.

06-JOS/10.usfm

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 \v 6 The people of Gibeon sent a message to Joshua and to the army at Gilgal. They said, "Hurry! Do not withdraw your hands from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us. Help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who live in the hill country have gathered together to attack us."
 \v 7 Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the men of war with him, and all the fighting men.
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 \v 11 As they ran away from Israel, down the hill from Beth Horon, Yahweh threw large stones down from heaven upon them all the way to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than who were killed with the sword by the men of Israel.
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 \v 12 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh on the day Yahweh gave the men of Israel victory over the Amorites. This is what Joshua said to Yahweh before Israel,
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 \v 33 Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish. Joshua attacked him and his army until there was not even one survivor left.
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 \v 34 Then Joshua and all Israel passed on from Lachish to Eglon. They camped by it and waged war against it,

06-JOS/11.usfm

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 \v 8 Yahweh gave the enemy into the hand of Israel, and they struck them with the sword and pursued them to Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah to the east. They struck them until not even one survivor of them was left.
 \v 9 Joshua did to them just as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung the horses and burned the chariots.
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 \v 10 Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor. He struck its king with the sword. (Hazor had been head of all these kingdoms.)
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 \v 12 Joshua captured all the cities of these kings. He also captured all their kings and struck them with the sword. He completely destroyed them with the sword, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded.
 \v 13 Israel did not burn any of the cities built on mounds, except Hazor. It alone Joshua burned.
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 \v 14 The army of Israel took all the plunder from these cities along with the livestock for themselves. They killed every human being with the sword until all were dead. They left no living creature alive.
 \v 15 Just as Yahweh had commanded his servant Moses, in the same way, Moses commanded Joshua. And so Joshua did not leave undone anything of all that Yahweh commanded Moses to do.

06-JOS/15.usfm

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 \v 5 The eastern boundary was the Salt Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan. The border on the north ran from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.
-\v 6 It went up to Beth Hoglah and passed along north of Beth Arabah. Then it went up to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben).
+\v 6 It went up to Beth Hoglah and passed along north of Beth Arabah. Then it went up to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
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 \v 7 Then the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the hill of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. Then the border passed along to the springs of En Shemesh and went to En Rogel.
 \v 8 Then the border went up the valley of Ben Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem). Then it went up to the top of the hill that lies over the valley of Hinnom, on the west, which is at the northern end of the valley of Rephaim.

06-JOS/17.usfm

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 \v 2 Land was assigned to the rest of the tribe of Manasseh, given to their clans—Abi Ezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, presented by their clans.
 
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-\v 3 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Makir son of Manasseh had no sons, but only daughters. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah.
+\v 3 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Makir son of Manasseh had no sons, but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah.
 \v 4 They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, and they said, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give to us an inheritance along with our brothers." So, following the commandment of Yahweh, he gave those women an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
 
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06-JOS/18.usfm

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 \v 7 The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance, beyond Jordan. This is the inheritance that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."
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 \v 8 So the men got up and went. Joshua commanded those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go up and down in the land and write a description of it and return to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh at Shiloh."
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 \v 11 The assignment of land for the tribe of Benjamin was given to each of their clans. The territory of their assigned land was located between the descendants of Judah and the descendants of Joseph.
-\v 12 On the north side, their border began at Jordan. The border went up to the ridge north of Jericho, and then up through the hill country westward. There it reached the wilderness of Beth Aven.
+\v 12 On the north side, their border began at the Jordan. The border went up to the ridge north of Jericho, and then up through the hill country westward. There it reached the wilderness of Beth Aven.
 
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 \v 13 From there the border passed along south in the direction of Luz (the same place as Bethel). Then the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies south of Beth Horon.
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 \v 16 The boundary then went down to the border of the mountain which was opposite the valley of Ben Hinnom, which was at the northern end of the valley of Rephaim. It then went down to the valley of Hinnom, south of the slope of the Jebusites, and continued down to En Rogel.
 
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-\v 17 It turned northward, going in the direction of En Shemesh, and from there it went out to Geliloth, which was opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it went down to the Stone of Bohan (Bohan was a son of Reuben).
+\v 17 It turned northward, going in the direction of En Shemesh, and from there it went out to Geliloth, which was opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it went down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
 \v 18 It passed on to the north of the shoulder of Beth Arabah and down to the Arabah.
 
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06-JOS/24.usfm

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 \v 8 I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.
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 \v 9 Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, got up and attacked Israel. He sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you.
 \v 10 But I did not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I rescued you out of his hand.

07-JDG/02.usfm

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 \v 23 That is why Yahweh left those nations and did not drive them out quickly and give them into the hand of Joshua.
 
 
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07-JDG/06.usfm

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 \v 40 God did what he asked for that night. The fleece was dry, and there was dew on all the ground around it.
 
 
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07-JDG/07.usfm

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 \v 25 They captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They went after the Midianites, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was on the other side of the Jordan.
 
 
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07-JDG/09.usfm

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 \v 57 God made all the evil of the men of Shechem turn back on their own heads and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal.
 
 
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07-JDG/10.usfm

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 \v 18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight the Ammonites? He will become the leader over all those who are living in Gilead."
 
 
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07-JDG/11.usfm

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 \v 40 that the daughters of Israel every year, for four days, would retell the story of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
 
 
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07-JDG/13.usfm

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 \v 25 Yahweh's Spirit began to stir him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
 
 
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07-JDG/17.usfm

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 \v 13 Then Micah said, "Now I know that Yahweh will do good for me, because this Levite has become my priest."
 
 
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07-JDG/19.usfm

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07-JDG/20.usfm

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 \v 1 Then all the people of Israel came out as one man, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead also, and they assembled together before Yahweh at Mizpah.
 \v 2 The leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the assembly of the people of God—400,000 men on foot, who were ready to fight with the sword.
 
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 \v 3 Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah. The people of Israel said, "Tell us how this wicked thing happened."
 \v 4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who had been murdered, answered, "I came to Gibeah in the territory that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
 
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 \v 5 During the night, the leaders of Gibeah attacked me, surrounding the house and intending to kill me. They seized and raped my concubine, and she died.
 \v 6 I took my concubine and cut her body into pieces, and sent them into each region of Israel's inheritance, because they have committed such wickedness and outrage in Israel.
 \v 7 Now, all you Israelites, give your advice and counsel here."
 
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 \v 8 All the people arose together as one man, and they said, "None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house!
 \v 9 But now this is what we must do to Gibeah: we will attack it as the lot directs us.
 
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 \v 10 We will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of a thousand, and one thousand of ten thousand, to get provisions for these people, so that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may punish them for the wickedness they committed in Israel."
 \v 11 So all the soldiers of Israel assembled against the city, as one man.
 
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 \v 12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this wickedness that was done among you?
 \v 13 Therefore, give us those wicked men of Gibeah, so we may put them to death, and so we will completely remove this evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.
 \v 14 Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to get ready to fight against the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 15 The people of Benjamin brought together from their cities to fight on that day twenty-six thousand soldiers who were trained to fight with the sword. In addition, there were seven hundred of their chosen men from the inhabitants of Gibeah.
 \v 16 Among all these soldiers were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Each of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
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 \v 17 The people of Israel, not counting the number from Benjamin, numbered 400,000 men, who were trained to fight with the sword. All of these were men of war.
 \v 18 The people of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked for advice from God. They asked, "Who first will attack the people of Benjamin for us?" Yahweh said, "Judah will attack first."
 
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 \v 19 The people of Israel got up in the morning and they moved their camp near Gibeah.
 \v 20 The people of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin. They set up their battle positions against them at Gibeah.
 \v 21 The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and they killed twenty-two thousand men of the army of Israel on that day.
 
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 \v 22 But the people of Israel strengthened themselves, and they formed the battle line in the same place where they had taken positions on the first day.
 \v 23 And the people of Israel went up and they wept before Yahweh until evening. They sought direction from Yahweh: "Should we go again to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" And Yahweh said, "Attack them!"
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 \v 24 So the people of Israel went against the soldiers of Benjamin the second day.
 \v 25 On the second day, Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah and they killed eighteen thousand men from the people of Israel. All were men who trained to fight with the sword.
 
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 \v 26 Then all the soldiers of Israel and all the people went up to Bethel and wept, and there they sat before Yahweh and they fasted that day until the evening and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
 
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 \v 27 The people of Israel asked Yahweh—for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
 \v 28 and Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron, was serving before the ark in those days—"Should we go out to battle once more against the people of Benjamin, our brothers, or stop?" Yahweh said, "Attack, for tomorrow I will help you defeat them."
 
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 \v 29 So Israel set men in secret places around Gibeah.
 \v 30 The people of Israel fought against the people of Benjamin for the third day, and they formed their battle lines against Gibeah as they had done before.
 
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 \v 31 The people of Benjamin went and fought against the people, and they were drawn away from the city. They began to kill some of the people. There were about thirty men of Israel who died in the fields and on the roads. One of the roads went up to Bethel, and the other went to Gibeah.
 
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 \v 32 Then the people of Benjamin said, "They are defeated and they are running away from us, just as at first." But the soldiers of Israel said, "Let us run back and draw them away from the city to the roads."
 \v 33 All the people of Israel rose up out of their places and formed themselves into lines for battle at Baal Tamar. Then the soldiers of Israel who had been hiding in secret places ran out from their places from Maareh Gibeah.
 
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 \v 34 There came out against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the fighting was fierce, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close to them.
 \v 35 Yahweh defeated Benjamin before Israel. On that day, the soldiers of Israel killed 25,100 men of Benjamin. All these who died were those who had been trained to fight with the sword.
 
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 \v 36 So the soldiers of Benjamin saw they were defeated. The men of Israel had given ground to Benjamin, because they were counting on the men they had placed in hidden positions outside Gibeah.
 \v 37 Then the men who were hiding got up and hurried and they rushed into Gibeah. And with their swords they killed everyone who lived in the city.
 \v 38 The arranged signal between the soldiers of Israel and the men hiding in secret would be that a great cloud of smoke would rise up out of the city.
 
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 \v 39 When the signal was sent the soldiers of Israel would turn from the battle. Now Benjamin began to attack and they killed about thirty men of Israel, and they said, "It is sure that they are defeated before us, as in the first battle."
 
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 \v 40 But when a pillar of smoke began to rise up out of the city, the Benjaminites turned and saw the smoke rising to the sky from the whole city.
 \v 41 Then the people of Israel turned against them. The men of Benjamin were terrified, for they saw that disaster had come on them.
 
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 \v 42 So they ran away from the people of Israel, escaping on the way to the wilderness. But the fighting overtook them. The soldiers of Israel came out of the cities and killed them where they stood.
 
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 \v 43 They surrounded the Benjaminites and went after them. And they trampled them down at Nohah and killed them all the way to the east side of Gibeah.
 \v 44 From the tribe of Benjamin, eighteen thousand people died, all of them men who were distinguished in battle.
 
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 \v 45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. The Israelites killed five thousand more of them along the roads. They kept going after them, following them closely all the way to Gidom, and there they killed two thousand more.
 \v 46 All the soldiers of Benjamin who fell that day were twenty-five thousand—men who were trained to fight with the sword; all of them were distinguished in battle.
 
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 \v 47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness, toward the rock of Rimmon. And they stayed at the rock of Rimmon for four months.
 \v 48 The soldiers of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and attacked and killed them—the entire city, the cattle, and everything that they found. They also burned down every town in their path.

07-JDG/21.usfm

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 \v 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
 
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 \v 3 Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
 \v 4 These sons took wives from the women of Moab; the name of one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there for about ten years.
 \v 5 Then both Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving Naomi without her husband and without her two children.
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 \v 6 Then Naomi decided to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law and return to Judah because she had heard in the region of Moab that Yahweh had helped his people in need and had given them food.
 \v 7 So she left the place where she had been with her two daughters-in-law, and they walked down the road to return to the land of Judah.

09-1SA/25.usfm

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 \v 32 David said to Abigail, "May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be blessed, he who sent you to meet me today.
-\v 33 And your wisdom is blessed, and you are blessed, because you have kept me today from guilt over shedding blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
+\v 33 And your wisdom is blessed, and you are blessed, because you have kept me today from bloodshed, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
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-\v 34 For in truth, as Yahweh , the God of Israel, lives, he who has kept me from hurting you, unless you had hurried to come meet me, there would certainly have not been left to Nabal so much as one male baby by morning."
+\v 34 For in truth, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, he who has kept me from hurting you, unless you had hurried to come meet me, there would certainly have not been left to Nabal so much as one male baby by morning."
 \v 35 So David received from her hand what she had brought him; he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and have accepted you."
 
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 \v 41 She arose, bowed herself with her face to the ground, and said, "See, your female servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my master."
 \v 42 Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey with five servant girls of hers who followed her; and she followed David's messengers and became his wife.
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-\v 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel as a wife; both of them became his wives.
+\v 43 Now David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel as a wife; both of them became his wives.
-\v 44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
+\v 44 Also, Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
 
 
 

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-\v 1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, "Is not David hiding in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the wilderness?"
+\v 1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, "Is not David hiding in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?"
 \v 2 Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
 
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-\v 3 Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is before the wilderness, by the road. But David was staying in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul was coming after him into the wilderness.
+\v 3 Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the road. But David was staying in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul was coming after him into the wilderness.
 \v 4 So David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed come.
 
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-\v 6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" Abishai said, "I will go down with you."
+\v 6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" Abishai said, "I! I will go down with you."
 \v 7 So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there was Saul sleeping inside the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head. Abner and his soldiers lay around him.
 \v 8 Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has put your enemy into your hand. Now please let me pin him to the ground with the spear with just one blow. I will not strike him a second time."
 
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 \v 19 Now therefore, I beg you, let my master the king listen to the words of his servant. If it is Yahweh who has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering; but if it is human beings, may they be cursed in the sight of Yahweh, for they have today driven me out, that I should not cling to the inheritance of Yahweh; they have said to me, 'Go worship other gods.'
-\v 20 Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the earth away from Yahweh's presence; for the king of Israel has come out to look for a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
+\v 20 Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the earth away from Yahweh's presence; for the king of Israel has come out to look for the one flea as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
 
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-\v 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, David, my son; for I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes today. See, I have played the fool and have greatly erred."
+\v 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, David, my son; for I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes today. See, I have played the fool and have made a very bad mistake."
 
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 \v 22 David answered and said, "See, your spear is here, king! Let one of the young men come over and get it and bring it to you.

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-\v 8 But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim;
+\v 8 But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim.
-\v 9 he made Ishbosheth king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and over all Israel.
+\v 9 He made Ishbosheth king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and over all Israel.
 
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 \v 10 Ishbosheth son of Saul, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
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 \v 18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was swift in his feet like a wild gazelle.
 \v 19 Asahel closely pursued Abner and followed him without turning away in any direction.
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 \v 20 Abner looked behind him and said, "Is that you Asahel?" He answered, "It is I."
 \v 21 Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his armor." But Asahel would not turn aside.

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 \v 17 Abner spoke with the elders of Israel saying, "In the past you were trying to have David be king over you.
 \v 18 Now do it. For Yahweh has spoken of David saying, 'By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.'"
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 \v 19 Abner also spoke personally to the people of Benjamin. Then Abner went also to speak with David in Hebron to explain everything that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin desired to accomplish.
 \v 20 When Abner and twenty of his men arrived in Hebron to see David, David had a feast prepared for them.
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 \v 24 Then Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Look, Abner came to you! Why have you sent him away, and he is gone?
 \v 25 Do you not know that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to discover your plans and learn everything you are doing?"
 \v 26 When Joab left David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah, but David did not know this.
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 \v 27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly. There Joab stabbed him in the stomach and killed him. In this way, Joab avenged the blood of Asahel his brother.

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 \v 1 Now David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
 \v 2 David arose and went with all his men who were with him from Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of Yahweh of hosts, who sits enthroned over the cherubim.
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 \v 3 They set the ark of God on a new cart. They brought it out of Abinadab's house, which was on a hill. Uzzah and Ahio, his sons, were guiding the new cart.
 \v 4 They brought the cart out of Abinadab's house on the hill with the ark of God on it. Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

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 \v 9 When Tou, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,
 \v 10 Tou sent Hadoram his son to King David to greet him and to bless him, because David had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, and because Hadadezer had waged war against Tou. Hadoram brought with himself objects of silver, gold, and bronze.
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 \v 11 King David set aside these objects to Yahweh, together with the silver and gold from all the nations that he conquered—
 \v 12 from Aram, Moab, the people of Ammon, the Philistines, and Amalek, along with all of the plundered goods of Hadadezer son of Rehob, the king of Zobah.

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 \v 1 David said, "Is there anyone left in Saul's family to whom I may show kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
 \v 2 There was in Saul's family a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. The king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He replied, "Yes. I am your servant."
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 \v 3 So the king said, "Is there not anyone left of Saul's family to whom I may show the kindness of God?" Ziba replied to the king, "Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet."
 \v 4 The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba replied to the king, "Look, he is in the house of Machir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar."