word of Yahweh project, about half done.

11-1KI/18.usfm

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 \v 30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me," and all the people came near to him. Then he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was lying in ruin.
-\v 31 Elijah took twelve stones, each stone representing one of the tribes of the sons of Jacob—it was to Jacob that the word of Yahweh had come, saying, "Your name will be Israel."
+\v 31 Elijah took twelve stones, each stone representing one of the tribes of the sons of Jacob—it was Jacob to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, "Israel will be your name."
 \v 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh and he dug a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs of seeds.
 
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13-1CH/17.usfm

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 \v 2 Then Nathan said to David, "Go, do what is in your heart, for God is with you."
 
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-\v 3 But that same night the word of God came to Nathan and said,
+\v 3 But that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
 \v 4 "Go and tell David my servant, 'This is what Yahweh says: You will not build me a house in which to live.
 \v 5 For I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought up Israel to this present day. Instead, I have been living in a tent, a tabernacle, in various places.
 \v 6 In all places I have moved among all Israel, did I ever say anything to any of Israel's leaders whom I appointed to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'"

14-2CH/11.usfm

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 \v 1 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were soldiers, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
 
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-\v 2 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, the man of God,
+\v 2 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
 \v 3 "Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,
 \v 4 'Yahweh says this, "You must not attack or make war against your brothers. Everyone must return to his own house, for I have caused this to happen.'" So they obeyed the words of Yahweh and turned back from attacking Jeroboam.
 

14-2CH/12.usfm

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 \v 6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh is righteous."
 
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-\v 7 When Yahweh saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah; it said, "They have humbled themselves. I will not ruin them; I will rescue them to some extent, and my anger will not pour out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak's hand.
+\v 7 When Yahweh saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves. I will not ruin them; I will rescue them to some extent, and my anger will not pour out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak's hand.
 \v 8 Nevertheless, they will be his servants, so that they may understand what it is to serve me and to serve the rulers of the other countries."
 
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24-JER/02.usfm

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-\v 1 The word of Yahweh came to me and said,
+\v 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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 \v 2 "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem. Say, 'Yahweh says this:
 \q I have called to mind on your behalf the covenant faithfulness in your youthfulness, your love at the time when we were engaged,

24-JER/13.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh said this to me, "Go and buy a linen undergarment and put it on around your waist, but do not put it in water first."
 \v 2 So I bought an undergarment as Yahweh directed, and I put in on around my waist.
-\v 3 Then the word of Yahweh came to me a second time and said,
+\v 3 Then the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying,
 \v 4 "Take the undergarment that you purchased that is around your waist, get up and travel to the Euphrates. Hide it there in a rock crevice."
 \v 5 So I went and hid it in the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me.
 
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-\v 8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me again and said,
+\v 8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
 \v 9 "Yahweh says this: In the same way I will destroy the great arrogance of Judah and Jerusalem.
 \v 10 This wicked people who refuses to listen to my word, who walk in the hardness of their heart, who go after other gods to worship them and bow down to them—they will be like this undergarment
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24-JER/16.usfm

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-\v 5 For Yahweh says this, 'Do not enter any house where there is mourning. Do not go about lamenting, and do not sympathize for these people. For I have gathered up my peace, covenant faithfulness, and acts of tender mercy, from this people!—this is Yahweh's declaration—
+\v 5 For the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 'Do not enter any house where there is mourning. Do not go about lamenting, and do not sympathize for these people. For I have gathered up my peace, covenant faithfulness, and acts of tender mercy, from this people!—this is Yahweh's declaration—
 \v 6 so the great and the small will die in this land. They will not be buried, nor will anyone mourn for them. No one will cut themselves or shave their heads for them.
 
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24-JER/18.usfm

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-\v 5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me and said,
+\v 5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
 \v 6 "Should I not be able to act like this potter with you, house of Israel?—this is Yahweh's declaration. See! Like clay in a potter's hand—that is how you are in my hand, house of Israel.
 \v 7 At one moment, I may proclaim something about a nation or a kingdom, that I will drive it out, tear it down, or destroy it.
 \v 8 But if the nation about which I have made that proclamation turns from its evil, then I will relent from the disaster that I was planning to bring upon it.

24-JER/24.usfm

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-\v 4 Then the word of Yahweh came to me and said,
+\v 4 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
 \v 5 "Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: I will look on the exiles of Judah for their benefit, just like these good figs, the exiles whom I have sent out from this place to the land of Chaldea.
 \v 6 I will set my eyes on them for good and restore them to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down. I will plant them, and not uproot them.
 \v 7 Then I will give them a heart to know me, for I am Yahweh. They will be my people and I will be their God, so they will turn to me with all their heart.

24-JER/28.usfm

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-\v 12 After Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah and said,
+\v 12 After Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
 \v 13 "Go and speak to Hananiah and say, 'Yahweh says this: You broke a yoke of wood, but I will make instead a yoke of iron.'
 \v 14 For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: I have placed a yoke of iron on the neck of all of these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have also given him the wild beasts in the fields to rule over."
 

24-JER/29.usfm

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 \v 29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
 
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-\v 30 So the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah and said,
+\v 30 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
 \v 31 "Send word to all the exiles and say, 'Yahweh says this about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you when I myself did not send him; because he has led you to believe lies,
 \v 32 therefore Yahweh says this: Look, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be a man for him to stay among this people. He will not see the good that I will do for my people—this is Yahweh's declaration—for he has proclaimed faithlessness against me, Yahweh.'"
 

24-JER/32.usfm

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-\v 6 Jeremiah said, "The word of Yahweh came to me and said,
+\v 6 Jeremiah said, "The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
 \v 7 'Look, Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you and will say, "Buy my field that is in Anathoth for yourself, for the right to buy it belongs to you."'"
 
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-\v 26 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah and said,
+\v 26 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
 \v 27 "Look! I am Yahweh, God of all mankind. Is anything too difficult for me to do?
 \v 28 Therefore Yahweh says this, 'See, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. He will capture it.
 

24-JER/33.usfm

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-\v 1 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut within the courtyard of the guard, and he said,
+\v 1 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut within the courtyard of the guard, saying,
 \v 2 "Yahweh the maker, says this—Yahweh, who forms in order to establish—Yahweh is his name,
 \v 3 'Call to me, and I will answer you. I will demonstrate great things to you, mysteries that you do not understand.'
 
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-\v 19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah and said,
+\v 19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
 \v 20 "Yahweh says this: 'If you can break my covenant with day and night so that there will no longer be day or night at their proper times,
 \v 21 then you will be able to break my covenant with David my servant, so that he will no longer have a son to sit on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests, my servants.
 \v 22 As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted, and as the sand of the seashores cannot be measured, so I will increase the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who serve before me.'"

24-JER/36.usfm

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-\v 27 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, and he said,
+\v 27 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, saying,
 \v 28 "Go back, take another scroll for yourself, and write in it all the words that were on the original scroll, the one that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned.
 \v 29 Then you must say this to Jehoiakim king of Judah: 'You burned that scroll, saying, "Why have you written on it, 'The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, for he will destroy both man and beast in it'?"'"
 

24-JER/39.usfm

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-\v 15 Now the word of Yahweh had come to Jeremiah while he was under arrest in the courtyard of the guard, and he said,
+\v 15 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah while he was under arrest in the courtyard of the guard, saying,
 \v 16 "Speak to Ebed Melech the Cushite and say, 'Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: See, I am about to carry out my words against this city for disaster and not for good. For they will all come true before you on that day.
 
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24-JER/42.usfm

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-\v 7 It happened that after ten days, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.
+\v 7 At the end of ten days, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.
 \v 8 So Jeremiah called to Johanan son of Kareah and all the army commanders with him, and to all the people from the least to the greatest.
-\v 9 Then he said to them, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me so I might lay your pleas before him. Yahweh says this,
+\v 9 Then he said to them, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel—to whom you sent me so I might lay your pleas before him—says,
 \v 10 'If you go back and live in this land, then I will build you and not tear you down; I will plant you and not pull you up, for I will turn back the disaster that I have brought on you.
 
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24-JER/43.usfm

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-\v 8 So the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes and said,
+\v 8 So the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
 \v 9 "Take some large stones in your hand, and, in the sight of the people of Judah, hide them in the mortar in the pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes."
 \v 10 Then say to them, "Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this, 'See, I am about to send messengers to take Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon as my servant. I will place his throne over these stones that you, Jeremiah, have buried. Nebuchadnezzar will place his pavilion over them.
 

26-EZK/18.usfm

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 \v 12 This man oppresses the poor and needy, and he seizes and robs, and he does not return a pledge, and he lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits disgusting actions,
-\v 13 and he lend out money at too high interest and he makes too much profit on what he sells, should that man live? Surely he will not! He will certainly die and his blood will be on him because he has done all these detestable things.
+\v 13 and he lends out money at too high interest and he makes too much profit on what he sells, should that man live? Surely he will not! He will certainly die and his blood will be on him because he has done all these detestable things.
 
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