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-\v 31 Do not turn to those who talk with the dead or with spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.
+\v 31 Do not turn to spiritists or familiar spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 4 None of the descendants of Aaron who has an infectious skin disease, or an infection flowing from his body, may eat any of the sacrifices made to Yahweh until he is clean. Whoever touches anything unclean through contact with the dead, or by contact with a man who has a flow of semen,
+\v 4 None of the descendants of Aaron who is leprous or has an infection flowing from his body, may eat any of the sacrifices made to Yahweh until he is clean. Whoever touches anything unclean through contact with the dead, or by contact with a man who has a flow of semen,
 \v 5 or whoever touches any creeping animal that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever kind of uncleanness it may be—
 \v 6 then the priest who touches anything unclean will be unclean until evening. He must not eat any of the holy things, unless he has bathed his body in water.
 
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 \v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two-tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be a wave offering of the firstfruits to Yahweh.
-\v 18 You must present with the bread seven lambs one year old and without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They must be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire and producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
+\v 18 You must present with the bread seven lambs one year old and without blemish, one young bull from the herd, and two rams. They must be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire and producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
 
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 \v 19 You must offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice, as fellowship offerings.
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 \v 14 "Take the man who has cursed God outside the camp. All who heard him must lay their hands on his head, and then the entire assembly must stone him.
 
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-\v 15 You must explain to the people of Israel and say, 'Whoever curses his God must carry his own guilt.
+\v 15 You must explain to the people of Israel and say, 'Whoever curses his God must carry his own sin.
 \v 16 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh must surely be put to death. All the assembly must certainly stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native-born Israelite. If anyone blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he must be put to death.
 
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-\v 23 The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.
+\v 23 The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and sojourners on my land.
 \v 24 You must observe the right of redemption for all the land that you acquire; you must allow the land to be bought back by the family from whom you bought it.
 \v 25 If your fellow Israelite became poor and for that reason sold some of his property, then his nearest relative must come and redeem what his brother has sold.
 
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 \v 29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may buy it back within a whole year after it was sold. For a full year he will have the right of redemption.
-\v 30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the year of Jubilee.
+\v 30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the buyer throughout his generations. It is not to be returned in the year of Jubilee.
 
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 \v 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. They may be redeemed, and they must be returned during the year of Jubilee.
-\v 32 However, the houses owned by the Levites in their cities may be redeemed at any time.
+\v 32 As for the cities of the Levites, the houses owned by the Levites in the cities they possess may be redeemed at any time.
 
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 \v 33 If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the year of Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.
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-\v 35 If your fellow countryman becomes poor, so that he can no longer provide for himself, then you must help him as you would help a foreigner or anyone else living as an outsider among you.
-\v 36 Do not charge him interest or try to profit from him in any way, but honor your God so that your brother may keep living with you.
+\v 35 If your fellow countryman becomes poor, so that he can no longer provide for himself, then you must help him as you would help a foreigner or a sojourner so that he may live among you.
+\v 36 Do not take from him interest or usury, but honor your God so that your brother may keep living with you.
 \v 37 You must not give him a loan of money and charge interest, nor sell him your food to earn a profit.
 \v 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, in order that I might give you the land of Canaan, and that I might be your God.
 
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 \v 39 If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.
-\v 40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee.
+\v 40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like a sojourner. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee.
 \v 41 Then he will go away from you, he and his children with him, and he will return to his own clan and to his fathers' property.
 
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 \v 42 For they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as slaves.
-\v 43 You must not rule over them harshly, but you must honor your God.
+\v 43 You must not rule over them severely, but you must honor your God.
 \v 44 As for your male and female slaves, whom you can obtain from the nations who live around you, you may buy slaves from them.
 
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 \v 45 You may also buy slaves from the foreigners who are living among you and from their clans who are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may become your property.
-\v 46 You may provide such slaves as an inheritance for your children after you, to hold as property, and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your brothers among the people of Israel with harshness.
+\v 46 You may provide such slaves as an inheritance for your children after you, to hold as property, and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your brothers among the people of Israel severely.
 
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 \v 52 If there are only a few years to the year of Jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before the year of Jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.
 
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-\v 53 He is to be treated like a man hired year by year. You must make sure he is not treated with harshness.
+\v 53 He is to be to the purchaser like a man hired year by year. The purchaser is not to rule over him severely.
 \v 54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
 \v 55 To me the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"
 
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 \v 15 and if you reject my decrees and detest my laws, so that you will not obey all my commandments, but break my covenant—
 
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-\v 16 if you do these things, then I will do this to you: I will inflict terror on you, diseases and fever that will destroy the eyes and will drain away your life. You will plant your seeds for nothing, because your enemies will eat their produce.
+\v 16 if you do these things, then I will do this to you: I will inflict terror on you, diseases and fever that will destroy the eyes and will drain away your life. You will plant your seeds in vain, because your enemies will eat their produce.
 \v 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be overpowered by your enemies. Men who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away, even when no one is chasing you.
 
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 \v 18 If after all this you do not listen to me, then I will punish you seven times as severely for your sins.
 \v 19 I will break your pride in your power. I will make the sky over you like iron and your land like bronze.
-\v 20 Your strength will be used up for nothing, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.
+\v 20 Your strength will be used up in vain, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.
 
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 \v 21 If you walk against me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more blows on you, in proportion to your sins.
-\v 22 I will send wild animals against you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
+\v 22 I will send wild animals against you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you so few in number that your roads will be desolate.
 
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 \v 24 then I will also walk in opposition to you, and I myself will punish you seven times because of your sins.
 
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-\v 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.
-\v 26 When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
+\v 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a plague among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.
+\v 26 When I cut off your staff of food, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
 
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 \v 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.
 
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-\v 31 I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings.
+\v 31 I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sacred places. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings.
 \v 32 I will devastate the land. Your enemies who will live there will be shocked at the devastation.
-\v 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out my sword and follow you. Your land will be abandoned, and your cities will be ruined.
+\v 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out my sword and follow you. Your land will be devastated, and your cities will be ruined.
 
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-\v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies' lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
-\v 35 As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.
+\v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
+\v 35 As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.
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 \v 36 As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.
 
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 \v 37 You will stumble over each other as though you were running from the sword, even though no one is chasing you. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
 \v 38 You will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will itself devour you.
-\v 39 Those who are left among you will waste away in their sins, there in your enemies' lands, and because of their fathers' sins they will waste away as well.
+\v 39 Those who are left among you will waste away in their sins, there in your enemies' lands, and because of their fathers' iniquity they will waste away as well.
 
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-\v 40 Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers' sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me—
+\v 40 Yet if they confess their iniquity and their fathers' iniquity, and the unfaithfulness that they committed against me, and also their walking against me—
 \v 41 which caused me to turn against them and I brought them into the land of their enemies—if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins,
 \v 42 then will I call to mind my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; also, I will call the land to mind.
 
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-\v 43 The land will be abandoned by them, so it will be pleased with its Sabbaths while it lies abandoned without them. They will have to pay the penalty for their sins because they themselves rejected my decrees and detested my laws.
+\v 43 The land will be abandoned by them, so it will be pleased with its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will have to pay the penalty for their iniquity because they themselves rejected my decrees and detested my laws.
 
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 \v 44 Yet despite all this, when they are in their enemies' land, I will not reject them, neither will I detest them so as to completely destroy them and do away with my covenant with them, for I am Yahweh their God.
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-\v 9 If what is vowed is an animal that is acceptable to Yahweh, any part of that animal that is given to Yahweh becomes holy.
+\v 9 If what is vowed is an animal that people can give as an offering to Yahweh, any part of that animal that is given to Yahweh becomes holy.
 \v 10 The person must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad for a good one. If he substitutes one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy.
 
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-\v 11 However, if what the person has vowed to give Yahweh is in fact unclean, so that Yahweh will not accept it, then the person must bring the animal to a priest.
+\v 11 However, if what is vowed is an unclean animal that people cannot give as an offering to Yahweh, then the person must bring the animal to the priest.
 \v 12 The priest will value it, by the market value of the animal. Whatever value the priest places on the animal, that will be its value.
 \v 13 If the owner wishes to redeem it, then a fifth of its value is to be added to its redemption price.
 
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-\v 16 If a man sets apart some of his own land, then the valuation of it will be in proportion to the amount of seed required to plant it—a homer of barley will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
+\v 16 If a man sets apart to Yahweh some of the fields of his property, then the valuation of it will be in proportion to the amount of seed required to plant it—a homer of barley will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
 
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 \v 17 If he sets apart his field during the year of Jubilee, the valuation of it will stand.
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 \v 23 then the priest will figure the valuation of it up to the year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 In the year of Jubilee, the field will return to the man from whom it was bought, to the land's owner.
+\v 24 In the year of Jubilee, the field will return to the man from whom it was bought, to the one whose property the land is.
 \v 25 All the valuations must be set by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel.
 
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