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05-DEU/26.usfm

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 \v 16 Today Yahweh your God is commanding you to obey these statutes and decrees; you will therefore keep them and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
-\v 17 You have acknowledged today that Yahweh is your God, and that you will walk in his ways and keep his statutes, his commandments, and his decrees, and that you will listen to his voice.
+\v 17 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you will walk in his ways and keep his statutes, his commandments, and his decrees, and that you will listen to his voice.
 
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-\v 18 And today Yahweh has acknowledged that you are a people who are his own possession, as he had promised to make you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
+\v 18 Today Yahweh has declared that you are a people who are his own possession, as he had promised to make you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
-\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."
+\v 19 Yahweh has today declared 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."
 
 

05-DEU/27.usfm

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 \v 12 "These tribes must stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people after you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
 
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-\v 13 And these tribes must stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
+\v 13 These are the tribes that must stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
 \v 14 The Levites will answer and say to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:
 
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-\v 15 'May the man be cursed who makes a carved or cast figure, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of a craftsman, and who sets it up in secret.' And all the people must answer and say, 'Amen.'
+\v 15 'May the man be cursed who makes a carved or cast figure, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of a craftsman, and who sets it up in secret.' Then all the people must answer and say, 'Amen.'
 
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-\v 16 'May the man be cursed who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 16 'May the man be cursed who dishonors his father or his mother.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 17 'May the man be cursed who removes his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 17 'May the man be cursed who removes his neighbor's landmark.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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-\v 18 'May the man be cursed who makes the blind to wander away from the road.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 18 'May the man be cursed who makes the blind to wander away from the road.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 19 'May the man be cursed who uses force to take away the justice due to a foreigner, fatherless, or widow.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 19 'May the man be cursed who uses force to take away the justice due to a foreigner, fatherless, or widow.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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-\v 20 'May the man be cursed who lies with his father's wife, because he has taken away his father's rights.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 20 'May the man be cursed who lies with his father's wife, because he has taken away his father's rights.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 21 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with any kind of beast.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 21 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with any kind of beast.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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-\v 22 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father, or with the daughter of his mother.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 22 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father, or with the daughter of his mother.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 23 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with his mother-in-law.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 23 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with his mother-in-law.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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-\v 24 'May the man be cursed who kills his neighbor secretly.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 24 'May the man be cursed who kills his neighbor secretly.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 25 'May the man be cursed who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' And all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 25 'May the man be cursed who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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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.'
+\v 26 'May the man be cursed who does not confirm the words of this law, that he will obey them.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
 

05-DEU/29.usfm

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-\v 14 And it is not only with you that I am making this covenant and this oath—
+\v 14 For it is not only with you that I am making this covenant and this oath—
 \v 15 with everyone standing here with us today before Yahweh our God—but also with those who are not here with us today.
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 \v 16 You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.

05-DEU/34.usfm

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-\v 1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,
+\v 1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. There Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,
 \v 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the western sea,
 \v 3 and the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.