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08-RUT/02.usfm

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 \v 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young female workers, so that you do not come to harm in any other field."
 
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-\v 23 So she stayed close to Boaz's female workers in order to glean to the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she was living with her mother-in-law.
+\v 23 So she stayed close to Boaz's female workers in order to glean to the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. She lived with her mother-in-law.
 
 
 

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-\v 10 The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul. And he raved within the house. So David played his instrument, as he did each day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
+\v 10 The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he raved within the house. So David played his instrument, as he did each day. Saul had a spear in his hand.
 \v 11 Saul threw the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David escaped from Saul's presence twice in this way.
 \v 12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, but was no longer with Saul.
 

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 \v 24 Then they rose up and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.
-\v 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told of it, so he went down to a rocky hill and lived in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard it, he chased David in the wilderness of Maon.
+\v 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. But David was told of it, so he went down to a rocky hill and lived in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard it, he chased David in the wilderness of Maon.
 
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 \v 26 Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men were going on the other side of the mountain. David hurried to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to take them,

09-1SA/25.usfm

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 \v 9 When David's young men arrived, they said all of this to Nabal on David's behalf and then waited.
-\v 10 Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.
+\v 10 Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.
 \v 11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"
 
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 \v 12 So David's young men turned away and came back, and told him everything that was said.
-\v 13 David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword." And every man strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed after David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
+\v 13 David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword." So every man strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed after David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
 
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 \v 26 Now then, my master, as Yahweh lives, and as you live, since Yahweh has restrained you from bloodshed, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and those who seek to do evil to my master, be like Nabal.
 
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-\v 27 And now, this present that your servant has brought to my master—let it be given to the young men who follow my master.
+\v 27 Now let this present that your servant has brought to my master be given to the young men who follow my master.
 \v 28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for Yahweh will certainly make my master a sure house, because my master is fighting the battles of Yahweh; and evil will not be found in you so long as you live.
 
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-\v 29 And though men rise up to pursue you to take your life, yet the life of my master will be bound in the bundle of the living by Yahweh your God; and he will sling away the lives of your enemies, as from the pocket of a sling.
+\v 29 Though men rise up to pursue you to take your life, yet the life of my master will be bound in the bundle of the living by Yahweh your God; and he will sling away the lives of your enemies, as from the pocket of a sling.
 
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-\v 30 And it will come about, when Yahweh will have done for my master all the good things which he has promised you, and when he has made you leader over Israel,
+\v 30 Yahweh will have done for my master everything he promised you, and has appointed you leader over Israel.
-\v 31 this matter will be no sorrow to you, nor heartfelt offense to my master, for you have not shed blood without cause, and you have not avenged yourself. And when Yahweh has brought my master success, call your servant to mind."
+\v 31 This will not a staggering burden for you—that you have poured out innocent blood, or because my master attempted to rescue himself. For when Yahweh will do good for my master, remember your servant." 
 
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 \v 32 David said to Abigail, "May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be blessed, he who sent you to meet me today.
-\v 33 And your wisdom is blessed, and you are blessed, because you have kept me today from bloodshed, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
+\v 33 Your wisdom is blessed and you are blessed, because you have kept me today from bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand!
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 \v 34 For in truth, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, he who has kept me from hurting you, unless you had hurried to come meet me, there would certainly have not been left to Nabal so much as one male baby by morning."
 \v 35 So David received from her hand what she had brought him; he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and have accepted you."
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-\v 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "May Yahweh be blessed, who has taken up the cause of my insult from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. And he has turned Nabal's evil action back on his own head." Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
+\v 39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "May Yahweh be blessed, who has taken up the cause of my insult from the hand of Nabal and has kept back his servant from evil. He has turned Nabal's evil action back on his own head." Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
 \v 40 When David's servants had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her and said, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."
 
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09-1SA/26.usfm

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 \v 6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" Abishai said, "I! I will go down with you."
-\v 7 So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there was Saul sleeping inside the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head. Abner and his soldiers lay around him.
+\v 7 So David and Abishai went to the army by night. Saul was there sleeping inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head. Abner and his soldiers lay around him.
 \v 8 Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has put your enemy into your hand. Now please let me pin him to the ground with the spear with just one blow. I will not strike him a second time."
 
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 \v 15 David said to Abner, "Are not you a courageous man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your master the king? For someone came in to kill the king your master.
-\v 16 This thing is not good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you deserve to die because you have not kept watch over your master, Yahweh's anointed one. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."
+\v 16 This thing you have done is not good. As Yahweh lives, you deserve to die because you have not kept watch over your master, Yahweh's anointed one. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."
 
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 \v 23 May Yahweh pay each man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh put you into my hand today, but I would not strike his anointed.
 
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-\v 24 And see, as your life was precious in my eyes today, so may my life be much valued in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me out of all trouble."
+\v 24 See, as your life was precious in my eyes today, so may my life be much valued in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me out of all trouble."
-\v 25 Then Saul said to David, "May you be blessed, David my son, so that you may do great things, and that you may surely succeed." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
+\v 25 Then Saul said to David, "May you be blessed, David my son! You will certainly do great things and you will succeed in them." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
 
 
 

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 \v 4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; they said to him, "Make that man go away, that he may go back to his place that you have given him; do not let him go with us into battle, so that he does not become an enemy to us in the battle. For how else could this fellow make peace with his master? Would it not be with the heads of our men?
 
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-\v 5 Is this not the David of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying,
+\v 5 Is this not David of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying,
 \q 'Saul has slain his thousands,
-\q And David his ten thousands'?"
+\q and David his ten thousands'?"
 
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