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06-JOS/13.usfm

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-\v 29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh. It was assigned to the half tribe of the people of Manasseh, given to each of their tribes.
+\v 29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh. It was assigned to the half tribe of the people of Manasseh, according to their clans.
 \v 30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
 \v 31 half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei (the royal cities of Og in Bashan). These were assigned to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh—half of the people of Machir, given to each of their families.
 

07-JDG/05.usfm

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-\v 7 There were no peasants in Israel,
+\v 7 There were few warriors in Israel,
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 \q a mother took command in Israel!
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-\v 11 Hear the voices of those who divide up the sheep between the watering places. 
+\v 11 Hear the voices of those who sing at the watering places. 
 \q There they tell again of Yahweh's righteous deeds,
 \q and the righteous actions of his warriors in Israel.
 \q Then the people of Yahweh went down to the city gates.

07-JDG/06.usfm

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-\v 11 Now the angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash (the Abi Ezrite), while Gideon, Joash's son, was separating out the wheat by beating it on the floor, in the winepress—to hide it from the Midianites.
+\v 11 Now the angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash (the Abiezrite), while Gideon, Joash's son, was separating out the wheat by beating it on the floor, in the winepress—to hide it from the Midianites.
 \v 12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you strong warrior!"
  
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 \v 13 Gideon said to him, "Oh, my master, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers told us about, when they said, 'Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has abandoned us and given us over to the power of Midian."
  
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-\v 14 Yahweh looked at him and said, "Go in this strength you have. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?"
+\v 14 Yahweh looked at him and said, "Go in the strength you already have. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?"
 \v 15 Gideon said to him, "Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? See, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least important in my father's house."
  
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 \v 22 Gideon understood that this was the angel of Yahweh. Gideon said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! For I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face!"
 \v 23 Yahweh said to him, "Peace to you! Do not be afraid, you will not die."
-\v 24 So Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh. He called it, Yahweh is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah of the clan of Abi Ezer.
+\v 24 So Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh. He called it, Yahweh is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah of the clan of Abiezer.
  
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 \v 29 The men of the city said to one another, "Who has done this?"  When they talked with others and searched for answers, they said, "Gideon son of Joash has done this thing."
  
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-\v 30 Then the men of the town said to Joash, "Bring out your son so that he may be put to death, because he pulled apart the altar of Baal, and because he cut down the Asherah  beside it."
+\v 30 Then the men of the town said to Joash, "Bring out your son so that he may be put to death, because he pulled apart the altar of Baal, and because he cut down the Asherah beside it."
  
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 \v 31 Joash said to all who opposed him, "Will you plead the case for Baal? Will you save him? Whoever pleads the case for him, let him be put to death while it is still morning. If Baal is a god, let him defend himself when someone pulls his altar apart."
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 \v 33 Now all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the people of the east gathered together. They crossed over the Jordan and camped in the valley of Jezreel.
  
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-\v 34 But the Spirit of Yahweh covered Gideon in order to help him. Gideon blew a trumpet, calling out the clan of Abi Ezer, so they might follow him.
+\v 34 But the Spirit of Yahweh came over Gideon. Gideon blew a trumpet, calling out the clan of Abiezer, so they might follow him.
 \v 35 He sent messengers all throughout Manasseh, and they, too, were called out to follow him. He also sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet him.
  
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07-JDG/07.usfm

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-\v 15 When Gideon heard the retelling of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in prayer. He went back to the camp of Israel and said, "Get up! Yahweh has given you victory over the Midian army."
+\v 15 When Gideon heard the retelling of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He went back to the camp of Israel and said, "Get up! Yahweh has given you victory over the Midian army."
 \v 16 He divided the three hundred men into three groups, and he gave them all trumpets and empty jars, with torches inside each jar. 
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 \v 17 He said to them, "Look at me and do what I do. Watch! When I come to the edge of the camp, you must do what I do.
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-\v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp, right at the beginning of the middle watch. Just as the Midianites were changing guard,  they blew the trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.
+\v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp, right at the beginning of the middle watch. Just as the Midianites were changing guard, they blew the trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.
  
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 \v 20 The three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow them. They shouted out, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon."

07-JDG/08.usfm

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 \v 1 The men of Ephraim said to Gideon, "What is this you have done to us? You did not call us when you went to fight against Midian." And they argued with him with force. 
  
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-\v 2 He said to them, "What have I done now compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim's grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abi Ezer?
+\v 2 He said to them, "What have I done now compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim's grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?
 \v 3 God has given you victory over the princes of Midian—Oreb and Zeeb! What have I accomplished compared to you?" Their anger toward him died down when he said this.
  
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 \v 31 His concubine, who was in Shechem, also bore him a son, and Gideon gave him the name Abimelech.
  
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-\v 32 Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the clan of Abi Ezer.
+\v 32 Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the clan of Abiezer.
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 \v 33 It came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, the people of Israel turned again and prostituted themselves by worshiping the Baals. They made Baal Berith their god.
  

07-JDG/09.usfm

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 \v 8 The trees once went out to anoint a king over them. And they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
  
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-\v 9 But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I give up my oil, which is used to honor God and man, so I may go return, just to sway over the other trees?'
+\v 9 But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I give up my oil, which is used to honor gods and mankind, so I may go return, just to sway over the other trees?'
 \v 10 The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'
 \v 11 But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I give up my sweetness and my good fruit, just so I could return and sway over the other trees?'
  
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 \v 12 The trees said to the vine, 'Come and reign over us.'
-\v 13 The vine said to them, 'Should I give up my new wine, which cheers God and man, and return and sway over the other trees?'
+\v 13 The vine said to them, 'Should I give up my new wine, which cheers gods and mankind, and return and sway over the other trees?'
 \v 14 Then said all the trees to the thornbush, 'Come and reign over us.'
  
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45-ACT/13.usfm

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 \v 20 All these events took place over four hundred and fifty years. After all these things, God gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
 
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-\v 21 After this, the people asked for a king, so God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for the time of forty years.
+\v 21 Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
-\v 22 Then after God removed him from the kingship, he raised up David to be their king. It was about David that God said, 'I have found David son of Jesse to be a man after my heart; he shall do everything I desire.'
+\v 22 After God removed him from the kingship, he raised up David to be their king. It was about David that God said, 'I have found David son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who does all I want him to do.'
 
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 \v 23 From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus, as he promised to do.

48-2CO/11.usfm

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 \v 19 For you gladly put up with fools. You are wise yourselves!
-\v 20 For you put up with someone if he enslaves you, if he causes division among you, if he takes advantage of you, if he puts on airs, or if he slaps you in the face.
+\v 20 For you put up with someone if he enslaves you, if he consumes you, if he takes advantage of you, if he considers himself better than you, or if he slaps you in the face.
 \v 21 I will say to our shame that we were too weak to do that. Yet if anyone boasts—I am speaking like a fool—I too will boast.
 
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 \v 27 I have been at hard work and in hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often in fasting, in cold and nakedness.
 \v 28 Apart from everything else, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
-\v 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who has caused another to fall into sin, and I do not burn within?
+\v 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who has been caused to stumble, and I do not burn?
 
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 \v 30 If I must boast, I will boast about what shows my weaknesses.

52-COL/01.usfm

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 \v 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so he has first place among all things.
 \v 19 For God was pleased that all his fullness should live in him,
-\v 20 and to reconcile through the Son all things to himself. God made peace through the blood of his cross. God reconciled all things to himself, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
+\v 20 and to reconcile through the Son all things to himself. God made peace through the blood of his cross. God reconciled all things to himself, whether the things on the earth or the things in heaven.
 
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 \v 21 And you also, at one time, were strangers to God and were his enemies in mind and in evil deeds.

60-JAS/01.usfm

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-\v 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: greetings.
+\v 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion: greetings.
 \v 2 Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you experience various troubles.
-\v 3 You know that the testing of your faith works endurance.
+\v 3 You know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
 
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 \v 4 Let endurance complete its work, so that you may become fully developed and complete, and so that you may lack in nothing.
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 \v 8 Such a person is double-minded, unstable in all his ways.
 
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-\v 9 Let the poor brother glory in his high standing,
+\v 9 Let the poor brother boast of his high position,
-\v 10 but the rich brother in his humility, because he will pass away as a wild flower in the grass.
+\v 10 but the rich brother of his low position, because he will pass away as a wild flower in the grass.
 \v 11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower falls off, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich man will fade away in the middle of his activities.
 
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 \v 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," because God is not tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone.
 
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-\v 14 Each person is tempted by his own evil desire, which drags him away and entices him.
+\v 14 But each person is tempted by his own evil desire, which drags him away and entices him.
-\v 15 Then after evil desire conceives, it gives birth to sin. After sin is full grown, it gives birth to death. 
+\v 15 Then after evil desire conceives, it gives birth to sin. And after the sin is full grown, it gives birth to death. 
 \v 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
 
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-\v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights. With him there is no changing or shadow from turning. 
+\v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights. With him there is no changing or shadow because of turning. 
-\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be some kind of first fruits of all things that he created.
+\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of all things that he created.
 
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-\v 19 You know this, my beloved brothers: let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
+\v 19 You know this, my beloved brothers: let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
 \v 20 For the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
-\v 21 Therefore put away all sinful filth and the abundance of evil. In humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
+\v 21 Therefore put away all sinful filth and abundance of evil. In humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
 
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 \v 22 Be doers of the word and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves.
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 \v 25 But the person who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and remains so, not just being a hearer who forgets, this man will be blessed in his doing it.
 
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-\v 26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, but if he does not control his tongue, he deceives his heart, and his religion is vain.
+\v 26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, but if he does not control his tongue, he deceives his heart, and his religion is worthless.
 \v 27 Clean and spotless religion before our God and Father is this: to help the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself spotless from the world.