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 #### Structure and formatting
 
-Most of the text in this chapter is prose, but 4:23-24 is poetry. If the translator should put these two verses into poetic form, or at least into elegant speech, different from the rest of the chapter.
+Most of the text in this chapter is prose, but 4:23-24 is poetry. The translator should put these two verses into poetic form, or at least into elegant speech, different from the rest of the chapter.
 
 #### Special concepts in this chapter