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 \v 1 One day Yahweh said to the prophet Jonah son of Amittai,
 \v 2 "I have seen how wicked the people are who live in the great city of Nineveh. Therefore go there and warn the people that I am planning to destroy their city because of their sins."
-\v 3 But instead of going to Nineveh, Jonah went in the direction of the city of Tarshish, to get away from Yahweh. He went down to the city of Joppa. There he paid the money to travel on a ship that was going to the city of Tarshish, and he got on.
+\v 3 But instead of going to Nineveh, Jonah went in the direction of the city of Tarshish to get away from Yahweh. He went down to the city of Joppa. There he paid the money to travel on a ship that was going to the city of Tarshish, and he got on.
 
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-\v 6 Then the captain went down to where Jonah was sleeping soundly. He awoke him and said to him, "How can you sleep during a storm like this? Get up and pray to your god! Perhaps he will pity us and save us, so that we will not drown!"
+\v 6 Then the captain went down to where Jonah was sleeping soundly. He awoke him and said to him, "How can you sleep during a storm like this? Get up and pray to your god! Perhaps he will pity us and save us so that we will not drown!"
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-\v 7 Then the sailors said to each other, "We need to cast lots, to determine who has caused all this trouble!" So they did that, and the lot indicated Jonah.
+\v 7 Then the sailors said to each other, "We need to cast lots to determine who has caused all this trouble!" So they did that, and the lot indicated Jonah.
 
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 \v 8 So various ones of them asked him, "Who is the one who has caused us all this trouble?" "What work do you do?" "Where are you coming from?" "What country and what people do you belong to?"
 \v 9 Jonah replied, "I am a Hebrew. I worship Yahweh God, who lives in heaven. He is the one who made the sea and the land.
-\v 10 I am running away from Yahweh, he is the one who called me to be a prophet." After the sailors heard that, they were terrified. So they said to him, "Do you realize what trouble you have caused?"
+\v 10 I am running away from Yahweh; he is the one who called me to be a prophet." After the sailors heard that, they were terrified. So they said to him, "Do you realize what trouble you have caused?"
 
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-\v 7 When I was almost dead, Yahweh, I thought about you. You heard my prayer, up there where you are, in your holy temple.
+\v 7 When I was almost dead, Yahweh, I thought about you. You heard my prayer, up there where you are in your holy temple.
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 \v 8 All those who worship worthless idols are rejecting you, the one who could act faithfully toward them.
 
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 \v 4 When Jonah arrived, he began walking through the city for one day. Then he started to proclaim to the people, "Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed!"
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-\v 5 The people of Nineveh believed God's message. They all decided that everyone should begin fasting. So everyone, including all the important people and all the unimportant people, did that. They also put on coarse cloth, to show that they were sorry for having sinned.
+\v 5 The people of Nineveh believed God's message. They all decided that everyone should begin fasting. So everyone, including all the important people and all the unimportant people, did that. They also put on coarse cloth to show that they were sorry for having sinned.
 
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-\v 6 The king of Nineveh heard about Jonah's message. So he took off his royal robes, and he also put on coarse cloth. He left his throne and sat down where there were cold ashes, to show that he also was sorry for having sinned.
+\v 6 The king of Nineveh heard about Jonah's message. So he took off his royal robes, and he also put on coarse cloth. He left his throne and sat down where there were cold ashes to show that he also was sorry for having sinned.
 \v 7 Then he sent messengers to proclaim to the people in Nineveh: "My advisors and I have decreed that no one may eat or drink anything. Do not even allow your animals to eat or drink.
 
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-\v 8 Instead, every person must put on coarse cloth. Put coarse cloth on your animals, too. Then everyone must pray fervently to God. And everyone must stop doing evil actions, and stop acting violently toward others.
-\v 9 Perhaps, if everyone does that, God may change his mind and be merciful to us, and stop being very angry with us. If that happens, we will not die."
+\v 8 Instead, every person must put on coarse cloth. Put coarse cloth on your animals, too. Then everyone must pray fervently to God. And everyone must stop doing evil actions and stop acting violently toward others.
+\v 9 Perhaps, if everyone does that, God may change his mind and be merciful to us and stop being very angry with us. If that happens, we will not die."
 
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 \v 1 But Jonah felt that it was very bad that God had not destroyed Nineveh. He became very angry.
-\v 2 He prayed to Yahweh, "Oh, Yahweh, what you have done is just what I thought that you would do even before I left home. The reason I ran away to go to Tarshish was to stop this very thing from happening, because I knew that you act very kindly and compassionately toward all people. You do not quickly become angry with people who do evil. You love people very much, and you change your mind about punishing people who sin.
-\v 3 So now, Oh Yahweh, since you will not destroy Nineveh as you said you would, please allow me to die, because now it would be better for me to die than to continue to live."
+\v 2 He prayed to Yahweh, "Oh, Yahweh, what you have done is just what I thought that you would do even before I left home. The reason I ran away to go to Tarshish was to stop this very thing from happening because I knew that you act very kindly and compassionately toward all people. You do not quickly become angry with people who do evil. You love people very much, and you change your mind about punishing people who sin.
+\v 3 So now, Oh Yahweh, since you will not destroy Nineveh as you said you would, please allow me to die because now it would be better for me to die than to continue to live."
 
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 \v 4 Yahweh replied, "Is it right for you to be angry that I did not destroy the city?"
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-\v 5 Jonah did not reply. He went out of the city to the east side of it. He made a small shelter in order that he could sit under it and be protected from the sun. He sat under the shelter and waited to see what would happen to the city.
+\v 5 Jonah did not reply. He went out of the city to the east side of it. He made a small shelter so that he could sit under it and be protected from the sun. He sat under the shelter and waited to see what would happen to the city.
 
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-\v 6 Then Yahweh God caused a vine to grow up immediately to shade Jonah's head from the sun and to save him from his discomfort. Jonah was very happy about having the vine over his head.
+\v 6 Then Yahweh God caused a vine to immediately grow up to shade Jonah's head from the sun and to save him from his discomfort. Jonah was very happy about having the vine over his head.
 \v 7 But before dawn the next day, God sent a worm that chewed the vine, with the result that the vine withered.
 
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 \v 10 But Yahweh said to him, "You were concerned about that vine when I caused it to wither, even though you did not take care of it, and you did not make it grow. It just grew up during one night and it completely withered at the end of the next night.
-\v 11 But there are more than 120,000 people in Nineveh, that huge city, who cannot tell right from wrong, and there are also many cattle. So is it not right for me to be concerned about those people, and not want to destroy them?"
+\v 11 But there are more than 120,000 people in Nineveh, that huge city, who cannot tell right from wrong, and there are also many cattle. So is it not right for me to be concerned about those people and not want to destroy them?"