Sabbath in the UDB regularized

19-PSA.usfm

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 \v 3 Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes;  
 \q2 she will give birth to many children.  
-\q1 Your children who sit around your table;
+\q1 Your children who sit around your table 
-\q1 you will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it.
+\q2 will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it.  
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 \v 4 Like that, Yahweh will bless every man who has an awesome respect for him.
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 \v 5 I wish that God in his temple on Mount Zion may help you greatly,
 \q1 and that you will see the people of Jerusalem prospering every day that you live!
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 \v 6 I wish that you may live many years
 \q2 and that you may have grandchildren and be able to see them.
 \q1 I wish that things may go well for people in Israel!

41-MAT.usfm

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 \v 1 On a Sabbath at that time, Jesus and the disciples were walking past some grain fields. Because the disciples were hungry, they began to pick some of the heads of grain and eat them, something that the law of Moses allowed.
-\v 2 Some Pharisees saw them doing that, so they said to Jesus, "Look! Your disciples are doing work on our day of rest. The law does not allow that!"
+\v 2 Some Pharisees saw them doing that, so they said to Jesus, "Look! Your disciples are doing work on our Sabbath day of rest. The law does not allow that!"
 
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 \v 9 After Jesus left there that day, he went into a synagogue.
-\v 10 There he saw a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees kept wanting to debate with Jesus about the Sabbath, so one of them asked him, "Does God permit us to heal people on our day of rest?" They were hoping that Jesus would commit a sin by saying something wrong.
+\v 10 There he saw a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees kept wanting to debate with Jesus about the Sabbath, so one of them asked him, "Does God permit us to heal people on our Sabbath day of rest?" They were hoping that Jesus would commit a sin by saying something wrong.
 
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 \v 11 He replied to them, "Suppose that one of you had just one sheep, and that it fell into a deep hole on the Sabbath day. Would you just leave it there? Certainly not! You would take hold of it and lift it out right away!
-\v 12 But a person is much more valuable than a sheep. So it is certainly right for us to do good by healing another person any day, even on our day of rest!"
+\v 12 But a person is much more valuable than a sheep. So it is certainly right for us to do good by healing another person any day, even on our Sabbath day of rest!"
 
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 \v 13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" The man stretched out his withered hand, and it became healthy like the other hand!
@@ -2392,7 +2392,7 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
 
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-\v 62 The next day was Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. The chief priests and some of the Pharisees went to Pilate.
+\v 62 The next day, the Jewish day on which they prepared to celebrate the Passover, the chief priests and some of the Pharisees went to Pilate.
 \v 63 They said, "Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive, he said, 'Three days after I die I will become alive again.'
 \v 64 So we ask you to order soldiers to guard the tomb for three days. If you do not do that, his disciples may come and steal the body. Then they will tell people that he has risen from the dead. If they deceive people by saying that, it will be worse than the way he deceived people before."
 

43-LUK.usfm

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-\v 10 On one Jewish day of rest, Jesus was teaching people in one of the synagogues.
+\v 10 On one of the Sabbath days of rest, Jesus was teaching people in one of the synagogues.
 \v 11 There was a woman there whom an evil spirit had crippled for eighteen years. She was always bent over; she could not stand up straight.
 
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 \v 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over to him. He said to her, "Woman, I have healed you of this illness!"
 \v 13 He put his hands on her. Immediately she stood up straight and began praising God!
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-\v 14 But the leader of the synagogue was angry because Jesus had healed her on the Jewish rest day. So he said to the people, "There are six days each week in which our laws permit people to work. If you need healing, those are the days to come to the synagogue and be healed." Do not come on our day of rest!"
+\v 14 But the leader of the synagogue was angry because Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day of rest. So he said to the people, "There are six days each week in which our laws permit people to work. If you need healing, those are the days to come to the synagogue and be healed." Do not come on the Sabbath day of rest!"
 
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-\v 15 Then the Lord replied to him, "You and your fellow religious leaders are hypocrites! Each of you also works on the day of rest sometimes! Would you not untie your ox or donkey to lead it from the food trough to where it can drink water?
+\v 15 Then the Lord replied to him, "You and your fellow religious leaders are hypocrites! Each of you also works on the Sabbath day of rest sometimes! Would you not untie your ox or donkey to lead it from the food trough to where it can drink water?
-\v 16 This woman is a Jew, descended from Abraham! But Satan has kept her crippled for eighteen years, as though he had tied her up! Certainly you would agree that it is right that I free her from Satan, even if I do it on a day of rest!"
+\v 16 This woman is a Jew, descended from Abraham! But Satan has kept her crippled for eighteen years, as though he had tied her up! Certainly you would agree that it is right that I free her from Satan, even if I do it on the Sabbath day of rest!"
 
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 \v 17 After he said that, his enemies were ashamed of themselves. But all the other people were happy about all the wonderful things he was doing.
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-\v 1 One day, which was a day of rest, Jesus went to eat at the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees, and they were watching him carefully.
+\v 1 One day, which was the Sabbath day of rest, Jesus went to eat at the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees, and they were watching him carefully.
 \v 2 Right there in front of Jesus was a man who had a disease that caused his arms and legs to be very swollen.
-\v 3 Jesus asked the experts in Jewish law and the Pharisees who were present, "Is it permitted in the law to heal people on the day of rest, or not?"
+\v 3 Jesus asked the experts in Jewish law and the Pharisees who were present, "Is it permitted in the law to heal people on the Sabbath day of rest, or not?"
 
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 \v 4 They did not reply. So Jesus put his hands on the man and healed him. Then he told him he could go.
-\v 5 And he said to the others there, "If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on the day of rest, would you not immediately pull him out?"
+\v 5 And he said to the others there, "If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on the Sabbath day of rest, would you not immediately pull him out?"
 \v 6 Again, they were not able to answer him.
 
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44-JHN.usfm

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 \p Now that day was the Sabbath, the day of rest.
 
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-\v 10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath day, and you know it is against our law for you to carry your mat on this day of rest."
+\v 10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath day, and you know it is against our law for you to carry your mat on this Sabbath day of rest."
 \v 11 The man who had been healed said to them, "But the one who healed me told me, 'Take up your bed and walk!'"
 
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45-ACT.usfm

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-\v 12 Then after the two angels left, the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which was a short distance from Jerusalem.
+\v 12 Then after the two angels left, the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which was a short distance from Jerusalem, a distance called a "Sabbath Day's Journey." 
 \v 13 After they entered the city, they went into the upstairs room in the house where they were staying. Those who were there included Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, another James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of another man named James.
 \v 14 All these apostles began to pray together all the time. Others who prayed with them included the women who had been with Jesus, and Mary who was Jesus' mother, as well as his brothers, who were all younger than he was.
 
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 \v 1 They traveled through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to the city of Thessalonica. There was a Jewish meeting place there.
-\v 2 On the sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ.
+\v 2 On the Sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each Sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ.
 
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 \v 3 He showed from the scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Christ would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus, the one I proclaim to you, is the Christ. He died and became alive again, just like the prophets said he would."