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01-GEN/01.usfm

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 \v 10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathered waters he called "seas." He saw that it was good.
 
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-\v 11 God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit whose seed is in the fruit, each according to its own kind." It was so.
+\v 11 God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: Plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit whose seed is in the fruit, each according to its own kind." It was so.
 \v 12 The earth produced vegetation, plants producing seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit whose seed was in it, after their kind. God saw that it was good.
 \v 13 This was evening and morning, the third day.
 

01-GEN/04.usfm

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 \v 18 To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
-\v 19 Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.
+\v 19 Lamech took for himself two wives: The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.
 
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 \v 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of those who lived in tents who have livestock.

01-GEN/06.usfm

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 \v 13 God said to Noah, "I can see that it is time to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Indeed, I will destroy them with the earth.
 \v 14 Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch within and without.
-\v 15 This is how you will make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
+\v 15 This is how you will make it: The length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
 
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 \v 16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it at a cubit from the top of the side. Place a door in the side of the ark and make a lower, a second, and a third deck.

01-GEN/07.usfm

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 \v 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits above the tops of the mountains.
 
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-\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: the birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the living creatures that lived in great numbers upon the earth, and all mankind.
+\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: The birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the living creatures that lived in great numbers upon the earth, and all mankind.
 \v 22 All living creatures who lived on the land, who breathed the breath of life through their noses, died.
 
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01-GEN/21.usfm

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 \v 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
 
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-\v 10 So she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son: for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."
+\v 10 So she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son: For the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."
 \v 11 This thing was very grievous to Abraham because of his son.
 
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01-GEN/25.usfm

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 \v 16 These were Ishmael's sons, and these were their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their tribes.
 
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-\v 17 These were the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years: he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
+\v 17 These were the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years: He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
 \v 18 They lived from Havilah to Ashhur, which is near Egypt, as one goes toward Assyria. They lived in hostility with each other.
 
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01-GEN/41.usfm

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 \v 33 Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and put him over the land of Egypt.
-\v 34 Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land. Let them take a fifth of the crops of Egypt in the seven abundant years.
+\v 34 Let Pharaoh do this: Let him appoint overseers over the land. Let them take a fifth of the crops of Egypt in the seven abundant years.
 
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 \v 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, for food to be used in the cities. They should preserve it.

01-GEN/43.usfm

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 \v 10 For if we had not delayed, surely by now we would have come back here a second time."
 
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-\v 11 Their father Israel said to them, "If it be so, now do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags. Carry down to the man a gift: some balm and honey, spices and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
+\v 11 Their father Israel said to them, "If it be so, now do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags. Carry down to the man a gift: Some balm and honey, spices and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
 \v 12 Take double money in your hand. The money that was returned in the opening of your sacks, carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was a mistake.
 
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01-GEN/45.usfm

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 \v 16 The news of the matter was told in Pharaoh's house: "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh and his servants very much.
-\v 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your animals and go to the land of Canaan.
+\v 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan.
 \v 18 Get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
 
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 \v 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them carts, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
 \v 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
-\v 23 For his father he sent this: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt; and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other supplies for his father for the journey.
+\v 23 For his father he sent this: Ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt; and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other supplies for his father for the journey.
 
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 \v 24 So he sent his brothers away and they left. He said to them, "See that you do not quarrel on the journey."

02-EXO/06.usfm

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-\v 14 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanok, Pallu, Hezron, and Karmi. These were the clan ancestors of Reuben.
+\v 14 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanok, Pallu, Hezron, and Karmi. These were the clan ancestors of Reuben.
 \v 15 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul—the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clan ancestors of Simeon.
 
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02-EXO/08.usfm

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 \v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Reach out with your hand and your staff over the rivers, the streams, and the pools, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.'"
 \v 6 Aaron reached out with his hand over Egypt's waters, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
-\v 7 But the magicians did the same with their magic: they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt.
+\v 7 But the magicians did the same with their magic: They brought up frogs over the land of Egypt.
 
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 \v 30 Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to Yahweh.
-\v 31 Yahweh did as Moses asked: he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his servants, and his people. Not one remained.
+\v 31 Yahweh did as Moses asked—He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his servants, and his people. Not one remained.
 \v 32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
 
 

02-EXO/09.usfm

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 \v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: "Let my people go so that they may worship me."
 \v 2 But if you refuse to let them go, if you still keep them back,
 \v 3 then Yahweh's hand will be on your cattle in the fields and on the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks, and it will cause a terrible disease.
-\v 4 Yahweh will treat Israel's cattle and Egypt's cattle differently: no animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.
+\v 4 Yahweh will treat Israel's cattle and Egypt's cattle differently: No animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.
 
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 \v 5 Yahweh has fixed a time; he has said, "It is tomorrow that I will do this thing in the land."'"
-\v 6 Yahweh did this the next day: all the cattle of Egypt died. But none of the Israelites' animals died, not one animal.
+\v 6 Yahweh did this the next day: All the cattle of Egypt died. But none of the Israelites' animals died, not one animal.
 \v 7 Pharaoh investigated, and, behold, not even one animal of the Israelites died. But his heart was stubborn, so he did not let the people go.
 
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02-EXO/12.usfm

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 \v 9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water. Instead, roast it over fire with its head, legs and inner parts.
 \v 10 You must not let any of it be left over until morning. You must burn whatever is left over in the morning.
-\v 11 This is how you must eat it: with your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly. It is Yahweh's Passover.
+\v 11 This is how you must eat it: With your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly. It is Yahweh's Passover.
 
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 \v 12 Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and attack all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will bring punishment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
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-\v 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Here is the rule for the Passover: no foreigner may share in eating it.
+\v 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Here is the rule for the Passover: No foreigner may share in eating it.
 \v 44 However, every Israelite's slave, bought with money, may eat it after you have circumcised him.
 
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02-EXO/25.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
 \v 2 "Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me from every person who is motivated by a willing heart. You must receive these offerings for me.
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-\v 3 These are the offerings that you must receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
+\v 3 These are the offerings that you must receive from them: Gold, silver, and bronze;
 \v 4 blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen; goats' hair;
 \v 5 ram skins dyed red and sea cow hides; acacia wood;
 \v 6 oil for the sanctuary lamps; spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;

02-EXO/27.usfm

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 \v 2 You must make extensions of its four corners shaped like ox horns. The horns will be made as one piece with the altar, and you must cover them with bronze.
 
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-\v 3 You must make equipment for the altar: pots for ashes, and also shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans. You must make all these utensils with bronze.
+\v 3 You must make equipment for the altar: Pots for ashes, and also shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans. You must make all these utensils with bronze.
 \v 4 You must make a grate for the altar, a network of bronze. Make a bronze ring for each of the grate's four corners.
 
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02-EXO/30.usfm

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 \v 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 23 "Take these fine spices: five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cane,
+\v 23 "Take these fine spices: Five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cane,
 \v 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, measured by the weight of the shekel of the sanctuary, and one hin of olive oil.
 \v 25 You must make holy anointing oil with these ingredients, the work of a perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil, reserved for me.
 

02-EXO/36.usfm

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 \v 20 Bezalel made vertical frames out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
 \v 21 The length of each frame was ten cubits, and the width of each frame was one and a half cubits.
 \v 22 Each frame had two wooden pegs for joining the frames together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
-\v 23 He made the frames for the tabernacle in this way: twenty frames for the south side.
+\v 23 He made the frames for the tabernacle in this way: Twenty frames for the south side.
 
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 \v 24 Bezalel made forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames. There were two bases under one frame to join the frames together, and also two bases under each of the other frames to join frames together.

02-EXO/38.usfm

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 \v 26 or one beka per man, which is half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel. This figure was reached on the basis of every person who was counted in the census, those twenty years old and older—603,550 men in all.
 
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-\v 27 One hundred talents of silver were cast for the bases of the holy place and the curtain's bases: one hundred bases, one talent for each base.
+\v 27 One hundred talents of silver were cast for the bases of the holy place and the curtain's bases: One hundred bases, one talent for each base.
 \v 28 With the remaining 1,775 shekels of silver, Bezalel made the hooks for the posts, covered the tops of the posts, and made the rods for them.
 \v 29 The bronze from wave offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
 

03-LEV/06.usfm

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 \v 5 Or if he lied about any matter, he must restore it in full and must add one-fifth more to pay him to whom it is owed, on the day that he is found guilty.
-\v 6 Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh: a ram without blemish from the flock that is worth the current value, as a guilt offering to the priest.
+\v 6 Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh: A ram without blemish from the flock that is worth the current value, as a guilt offering to the priest.
 \v 7 The priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he has become guilty of doing."
 
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 \v 19 So Yahweh spoke to Moses again, saying,
-\v 20 "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they will offer to Yahweh on the day when each son is anointed: a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
+\v 20 "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they will offer to Yahweh on the day when each son is anointed: A tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
 
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 \v 21 It will be made with oil in a baking pan. When it is soaked, you will bring it in. In baked pieces you will offer the grain offering to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.

03-LEV/07.usfm

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 \v 1 This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.
 \v 2 They must kill the guilt offering in the place for killing it, and they must sprinkle its blood against every side of the altar.
-\v 3 All the fat in it will be offered: the fat tail, the fat that is over the inner parts,
+\v 3 All the fat in it will be offered: The fat tail, the fat that is over the inner parts,
 \v 4 the two kidneys and the fat on them, which is next to the loins, and what covers the liver, with the kidneys—all this must be removed.
 
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03-LEV/11.usfm

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-\v 13 The birds you must detest and that you must not eat are these: the eagle, the vulture,
+\v 13 The birds you must detest and that you must not eat are these: The eagle, the vulture,
 \v 14 the kite, any kind of falcon,
 \v 15 every kind of raven,
 \v 16 the horned owl and the screech owl, the seagull, and any kind of hawk.
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-\v 29 Of the animals that creep on the ground, these are the animals that will be unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, every kind of large lizard,
+\v 29 Of the animals that creep on the ground, these are the animals that will be unclean for you: The weasel, the rat, every kind of large lizard,
 \v 30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
 
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03-LEV/16.usfm

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-\v 15 Then he must kill the goat for the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the curtain. There he must do with the blood as he did with the blood of the bull: he must sprinkle it on the atonement lid and then before the atonement lid.
+\v 15 Then he must kill the goat for the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the curtain. There he must do with the blood as he did with the blood of the bull: He must sprinkle it on the atonement lid and then before the atonement lid.
 \v 16 He must make atonement for the holy place because of the unclean actions of the people of Israel, and because of their rebellion and all their sins. He must also do this for the tent of meeting, where Yahweh lives among them, in the presence of their unclean actions.
 
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04-NUM/18.usfm

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 \v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "Look, I have given you the duty of handling the offerings raised up to me, and all the holy offerings that the people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your ongoing share.
-\v 9 These are the very holy things, kept from the fire: from every offering of theirs—every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—they are very holy to you and to your sons.
+\v 9 These are the very holy things, kept from the fire: From every offering of theirs—every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—they are very holy to you and to your sons.
 
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 \v 10 These offerings are very holy; every male must eat it, for they are holy to you.
-\v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: their gifts, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your ongoing share. Everyone who is ritually clean in your family may eat any of these offerings.
+\v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: Their gifts, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your ongoing share. Everyone who is ritually clean in your family may eat any of these offerings.
 
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 \v 12 All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you.

05-DEU/03.usfm

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 \v 3 So Yahweh our God also gave us victory over Og the king of Bashan, and all his people were put under our control. We struck them down until not one of his people remained.
-\v 4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not one city that we did not take from them: sixty cities—all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
+\v 4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not one city that we did not take from them: Sixty cities—all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
 
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 \v 5 These were all cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; this was besides very many unwalled villages.
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 \v 12 "This land that we took in possession at that time—from Aroer, that is by the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities—I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
-\v 13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh: all the region of Argob, and all Bashan. (The same territory is called the land of Rephaim.
+\v 13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh: All the region of Argob, and all Bashan. (The same territory is called the land of Rephaim.
 
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 \v 14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob to the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites. He called the region, even Bashan, by his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)

05-DEU/04.usfm

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-\v 32 For ask now about the days that are past, which were before you: since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, ask whether there has been anything like this great thing, or has anything like it ever been heard?
+\v 32 For ask now about the days that are past, which were before you: Since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, ask whether there has been anything like this great thing, or has anything like it ever been heard?
 \v 33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
 
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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 \v 4 For they will turn away your sons from following me, so that they may worship other gods. So the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
-\v 5 This is how you will deal with them: you will break down their altars, dash their stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols.
+\v 5 This is how you will deal with them: You will break down their altars, dash their stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols.
 
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05-DEU/12.usfm

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 \v 10 But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that Yahweh your God is causing you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you live in safety,
-\v 11 then it will happen that to the place where Yahweh your God will choose to cause his name to live, there will you bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offerings presented by your hand, and all your choice offerings for vows that you will vow to Yahweh.
+\v 11 then it will happen that to the place where Yahweh your God will choose to cause his name to live, there will you bring all that I command you: Your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offerings presented by your hand, and all your choice offerings for vows that you will vow to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 12 You will rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levites who are within your gate, because he has no portion or inheritance among you.

05-DEU/14.usfm

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 \v 3 You must not eat any abominable thing.
-\v 4 These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
+\v 4 These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat,
 \v 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
 
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 \v 6 You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.
-\v 7 Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean for you.
+\v 7 Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: The camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean for you.
 
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 \v 8 The pig is unclean for you as well because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. Do not eat pig meat, and do not touch their carcasses.
 
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-\v 9 Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;
+\v 9 Of these things that are in water you may eat: Whatever has fins and scales;
 \v 10 but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean for you.
 
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 \v 11 All clean birds you may eat.
-\v 12 But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
+\v 12 But these are the birds that you must not eat: The eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
 \v 13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.
 
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 \v 25 you will convert the offering into money, tie up the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.
 
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-\v 26 There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.
+\v 26 There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: For oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.
 \v 27 The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
 
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05-DEU/15.usfm

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 \v 1 At the end of every seven years, you must cancel debts.
-\v 2 This is the manner of the release: every creditor will cancel that which he has lent to his neighbor; he will not demand it from his neighbor or his brother because Yahweh's cancellation of debts has been proclaimed.
+\v 2 This is the manner of the release: Every creditor will cancel that which he has lent to his neighbor; he will not demand it from his neighbor or his brother because Yahweh's cancellation of debts has been proclaimed.
 \v 3 From a foreigner you may demand it; but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand must release.
 
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05-DEU/16.usfm

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 \v 15 For seven days you must observe the festival for Yahweh your God at the place that Yahweh will choose, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your harvest and all the work of your hands, and you must be completely joyful.
 
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-\v 16 Three times in a year all your males must appear before Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Shelters; and they will not appear before Yahweh empty-handed;
+\v 16 Three times in a year all your males must appear before Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose: At the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Shelters; and they will not appear before Yahweh empty-handed;
 \v 17 instead, every man will give as he is able, that you might know the blessing that Yahweh your God has given to you.
 
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05-DEU/18.usfm

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 \v 2 They must have no inheritance among their brothers; Yahweh is their inheritance, as he said to them.
 
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-\v 3 This will be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be oxen or sheep: they must give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
+\v 3 This will be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be oxen or sheep: They must give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
 \v 4 The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you must give him.
 \v 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons forever.
 

05-DEU/19.usfm

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-\v 4 This is the law for the one who kills another and who flees there to live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and did not previously hate him—
+\v 4 This is the law for the one who kills another and who flees there to live: Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and did not previously hate him—
 \v 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand strikes with the ax to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the shaft and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—then that man must flee to one of these cities and live.
 
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 \v 16 In the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must save alive nothing that breathes.
-\v 17 Instead, you must completely destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you.
+\v 17 Instead, you must completely destroy them: The Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you.
 \v 18 Do this so that they do not teach you to act in any of their abominable ways, as they have done with their gods. If you do, you will sin against Yahweh your God.
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 \v 16 You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
 
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-\v 17 You have seen their disgusting things: their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, that were among them.
+\v 17 You have seen their disgusting things: Their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, that were among them.
 \v 18 Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.
 \v 19 When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.
 

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 \v 3 Then Joshua made himself flint knives and he circumcised all the males of Israel at Gibeath Haaraloth.
 
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-\v 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males who had come out of Egypt, including all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out from Egypt.
+\v 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the males who had come out of Egypt, including all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out from Egypt.
 \v 5 Though all the males who came out of Egypt were circumcised, still, none of the boys born in the wilderness on the way out of Egypt had been circumcised.
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 \v 6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the people, that is, all the men of war who had come out of Egypt, died, because they did not obey the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to their ancestors that he would give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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 \v 10 The people of Israel camped at Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the plains of Jericho.
-\v 11 They ate some of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover: unleavened bread, and roasted grain.
+\v 11 They ate some of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover: Unleavened bread, and roasted grain.
 
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 \v 12 The manna stopped on the day after they ate the produce of the land. There was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate the produce of the land of Canaan that year.

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 \v 25 Now, look, you hold us in your power. Whatever seems good and right for you to do to us, do it."
 
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-\v 26 So Joshua did this for them: he removed them out of the control of the people of Israel, and the Israelites did not kill them.
+\v 26 So Joshua did this for them: He removed them out of the control of the people of Israel, and the Israelites did not kill them.
 \v 27 That day Joshua made the Gibeonites cutters of wood and drawers of water for the community, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that Yahweh chooses.
 
 

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 \v 1 Now Joshua was very old when Yahweh said to him, "You are very old, but there is still very much land to capture.
 
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-\v 2 This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites,
+\v 2 This is the land that still remains: All the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites,
 \v 3 (from Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and northward to the border of Ekron, which is considered property of the Canaanites; the five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron—the territory of the Avvites).
 
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 \v 18 Soon after that, Aksah came to Othniel and she urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
 
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-\v 19 Aksah replied, "Do me a special favor, since you have given me the land of the Negev: also give me some springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and lower springs.
+\v 19 Aksah replied, "Do me a special favor, since you have given me the land of the Negev: Also give me some springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and lower springs.
 
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06-JOS/16.usfm

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-\v 5 The territory of the tribe of Ephraim that was assigned to their clans was as follows: the border of their inheritance on the east went from Ataroth Addar as far as Upper Beth Horon,
+\v 5 The territory of the tribe of Ephraim that was assigned to their clans was as follows: The border of their inheritance on the east went from Ataroth Addar as far as Upper Beth Horon,
 \v 6 and from there it continued to the sea. From Mikmethath on the north it turned eastward toward Taanath Shiloh and passed beyond it on the east to Janoah.
 \v 7 Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and then reached Jericho, ending at the Jordan.
 

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 \v 13 From there the border passed along south in the direction of Luz (the same place as Bethel). Then the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies south of Beth Horon.
-\v 14 The boundary then went in another direction: on the western side it turned toward the south, heading toward the mountain across from Beth Horon. This boundary ended at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city that belonged to the tribe of Judah. This formed the border on the western side.
+\v 14 The boundary then went in another direction: On the western side it turned toward the south, heading toward the mountain across from Beth Horon. This boundary ended at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city that belonged to the tribe of Judah. This formed the border on the western side.
 
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-\v 4 The casting of lots for the clans of the Kohathites gave this result: the priests—the descendants of Aaron who were from the Levites—received thirteen cities given from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeon, and from the tribe of Benjamin.
+\v 4 The casting of lots for the clans of the Kohathites gave this result: The priests—the descendants of Aaron who were from the Levites—received thirteen cities given from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeon, and from the tribe of Benjamin.
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 \v 1 Now Yahweh left these nations to test Israel, namely everyone in Israel who had not experienced any of the wars fought in Canaan.
 \v 2 (He did this to teach warfare to the new generation of the Israelites who had not known it before.)
-\v 3 These are the nations: the five kings from the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon mountains, from Mount Baal Hermon to Hamath Pass.
+\v 3 These are the nations: The five kings from the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon mountains, from Mount Baal Hermon to Hamath Pass.
 
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 \v 23 Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither will my son rule over you. Yahweh will rule over you."
 
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-\v 24 Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: that every one of you would give me the earrings from his plunder." (The Midianites had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
+\v 24 Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: Every one of you would give me the earrings from his plunder." (The Midianites had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
 \v 25 They answered, "We are glad to give them to you." They spread out a cloak and every man threw on it the earrings from his plunder.
 
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 \v 1 Abimelech son of Jerub Baal went to his mother's relatives at Shechem and he said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,
-\v 2 "Please say this, so that all the leaders in Shechem may hear, 'Which is better for you: to have all seventy sons of Jerub Baal rule over you, or that just one rule over you?' Remember that I am your bone and your flesh."
+\v 2 "Please say this, so that all the leaders in Shechem may hear, 'Which is better for you: To have all seventy sons of Jerub Baal rule over you; or that just one rule over you?' Remember that I am your bone and your flesh."
 
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 \v 8 All the people arose together as one man, and they said, "None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house!
-\v 9 But now this is what we must do to Gibeah: we will attack it as the lot directs us.
+\v 9 But now this is what we must do to Gibeah: We will attack it as the lot directs us.
 
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 \v 10 We will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of a thousand, and one thousand of ten thousand, to get provisions for these people, so that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may punish them for the wickedness they committed in Israel."

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 \v 10 The assembly sent twelve thousand of their bravest men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and attack them, and kill them, even the women and children.
 
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-\v 11 "Do this: you must kill every male and every woman who has slept with a man."
+\v 11 "Do this: You must kill every male and every woman who has slept with a man."
 \v 12 The men found among those living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh, in Canaan.
 
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-\v 17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to Yahweh: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, and one for Ekron.
+\v 17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to Yahweh: One for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, and one for Ekron.
 \v 18 The golden mice were the same in number as the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five rulers, both fortified cities and country villages. The great stone, beside which they set down the ark of Yahweh, remains a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Bethshemite.
 
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-\v 5 The Philistines gathered together to fight against Israel: three thousand chariots, six thousand men to drive the chariots, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They came up and encamped at Michmash, east of Beth Aven.
+\v 5 The Philistines gathered together to fight against Israel: Three thousand chariots, six thousand men to drive the chariots, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They came up and encamped at Michmash, east of Beth Aven.
 
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 \v 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble—for the people were distressed, the people hid in caves, in the underbrush, in rocks, in wells, and in pits.

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-\v 4 Saul summoned the people and numbered them at the city of Telaim: two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.
+\v 4 Saul summoned the people and numbered them at the city of Telaim: Two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.
 \v 5 Then Saul came to the city of Amalek and waited in the valley.
 
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-\v 5 David said to Achish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there: for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?"
+\v 5 David said to Achish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?"
-\v 6 So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
+\v 6 So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
 \v 7 The number of days that David lived in the land of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
 
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 \v 40 Huram made the basins and the shovels and the sprinkling bowls. Then he finished all the work that he did for King Solomon in the temple of Yahweh:
 \v 41 the two pillars, and the bowl-like capitals that were on top of the two pillars, and the two sets of decorative latticework to cover the two bowl like capitals that were on top of the pillars.
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-\v 42 He made the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of decorative latticework: two rows of pomegranates for each set of latticework to cover the two bowl-like capitals that were on the pillars,
+\v 42 He made the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of decorative latticework: Two rows of pomegranates for each set of latticework to cover the two bowl-like capitals that were on the pillars,
 \v 43 the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands.
 
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-\v 48 Solomon made all the furnishings that were in the temple of Yahweh out of gold: the golden altar and the table on which the bread of the presence was to be placed.
+\v 48 Solomon made all the furnishings that were in the temple of Yahweh out of gold: The golden altar and the table on which the bread of the presence was to be placed.
 \v 49 The lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner room, were of pure gold, and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs were of gold.
 
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-\v 41 In addition, concerning the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel: when he comes from a distant country because of your name—
+\v 41 In addition, concerning the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel: When he comes from a distant country because of your name—
 \v 42 for they will hear of your great name, your mighty hand, and your raised arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
 \v 43 then please listen from heaven, the place where you live, and do whatever the foreigner asks of you. Do this so that all the people groups on earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel. Do this so they might know that this house I have built is called by your name.
 
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 \v 62 So the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
-\v 63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings, which he made to Yahweh: twenty-two thousand oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
+\v 63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings, which he made to Yahweh: Twenty-two thousand oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
 
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 \v 64 The same day the king set apart the middle of the courtyard in front of the temple of Yahweh, for there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too small to receive the burnt offering, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings.

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-\v 15 The following is the reason for the requirement to work which King Solomon imposed: to build the temple of Yahweh and his own palace, to build the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem, and to build the defenses of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
+\v 15 This is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon imposed to build the temple of Yahweh and his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
 \v 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites in the city. Then Pharaoh gave the city to his daughter, Solomon's wife, as a wedding gift.
 
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-\v 1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—
+\v 1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: The daughter of Pharaoh and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—
 \v 2 nations concerning which Yahweh had said to the people of Israel, "You will not go among them to marry, neither will they come among you, for they will certainly turn your heart to their gods." But Solomon loved these women.
 
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 \v 23 The servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills. That is why they were stronger than we were. But now let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.
 
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-\v 24 So you must do this: remove all the kings from their positions of authority and replace them with military commanders.
+\v 24 So you must do this: Remove all the kings from their positions of authority and replace them with military commanders.
 \v 25 Raise up an army like the army you lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight them in the plain. Then surely we will be stronger than they are." So Ben Hadad listened to their advice and did what they advised.
 
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 \v 14 Now, see, at great effort I have prepared for Yahweh's house 100,000 talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron in large quantities. I have also provided timber and stone. You must add more to all this.
 
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-\v 15 You have many workmen with you: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and skillful craftsmen without number of every kind,
+\v 15 You have many workmen with you: Stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and skillful craftsmen without number of every kind,
 \v 16 who can work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron. So begin to work, and may Yahweh be with you."
 
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-\v 1 David assembled all the officials of Israel at Jerusalem: the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king in their scheduled work, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, the managers over all the property and possessions of the king and of his sons, and the officers and fighting men, including the most skilled of them.
+\v 1 David assembled all the officials of Israel at Jerusalem: The officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king in their scheduled work, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, the managers over all the property and possessions of the king and of his sons, and the officers and fighting men, including the most skilled of them.
 
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 \v 2 Then David the king rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was my intention to build a temple for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; a footstool for our God, and I have made preparations to build it.

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 \v 11 Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls.
 \p So Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of God:
 \v 12 the two pillars, the bowl-like capitals that were on top of the two pillars, and the two sets of decorative latticework to cover the two bowl-like capitals that were on top of the pillars.
-\v 13 He had made the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of decorative latticework: two rows of pomegranates for each set of latticework to cover the two bowl-like capitals that were on the pillars.
+\v 13 He had made the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of decorative latticework: Two rows of pomegranates for each set of latticework to cover the two bowl-like capitals that were on the pillars.
 
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 \v 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on his altar that he had built in front of the portico.
-\v 13 He offered sacrifices just as the daily schedule required; he offered them, following the directions found in the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbath days, the new moons, and on the set festivals three times every year: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.
+\v 13 He offered sacrifices just as the daily schedule required; he offered them, following the directions found in the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbath days, the new moons, and on the set festivals three times every year: The Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.
 
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 \v 10 So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
-\v 11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day some of the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep and goats.
+\v 11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day some of the plunder that they had brought: Seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep and goats.
 
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 \v 12 They entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their soul.
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 \v 17 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days.
 
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-\v 18 He brought into the house of God the things of his father and his own things that belong to Yahweh: silver and gold objects.
+\v 18 He brought into the house of God the things of his father and his own things that belong to Yahweh: Silver and gold objects.
 \v 19 There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.

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 \v 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathak and told him to go back to Mordecai.
-\v 11 She said, "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner courtyard without being summoned, there is only one law: that he must be put to death—except for anyone to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king these thirty days."
+\v 11 She said, "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner courtyard without being summoned, there is only one law: That he must be put to death—except for anyone to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king these thirty days."
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 \v 10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. He sent the documents by couriers riding on the fast horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud.
-\v 11 The king gave to the Jews who were in every city permission to gather together and to make a stand to protect their lives: to annihiliate, to kill, and to destroy any armed force from any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, or to plunder their possessions.
+\v 11 The king gave to the Jews who were in every city permission to gather together and to make a stand to protect their lives: To annihiliate, to kill, and to destroy any armed force from any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, or to plunder their possessions.
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-\v 7 Think about this, please: who has ever perished when innocent?
+\v 7 Think about this, please: Who has ever perished when innocent?
 \q Or when were the upright people ever cut off?
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 \v 8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity

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-\v 30 As for God: his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is pure!
+\v 30 As for God—his way is perfect! The word of Yahweh is pure!
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 \v 31 For who is God except Yahweh? Who is a rock except our God?

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 \v 27 "Consider what I have discovered," says the Teacher. "I have been adding one discovery to another in order to find an explanation of reality.
 \v 28 This is what I am still looking for, but I have not found it. I did find one righteous man among a thousand, but a woman among all those I did not find.
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-\v 29 I have discovered only this: that God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties."
+\v 29 I have discovered only this: That God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties."
 
 
 

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-\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa For what is preferable? For all the living, this is sure: a living dog is better than a dead lion \fqa* . \f*
+\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa For what is preferable? For all the living, this is sure: A living dog is better than a dead lion \fqa* . \f*
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 \v 1 See, the Lord Yahweh of hosts, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah
-\q1 support and staff: the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;
+\q1 support and staff: The whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;
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 \v 2 the mighty man, the warrior, the judge, the prophet, the omen reader, the elder;
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 \v 13 So Isaiah replied, "Listen, house of David. Is it not enough for you people to test the patience of people? Must you also test the patience of my God?
-\v 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you people a sign: see, the young woman will conceive, bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.
+\v 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you people a sign: See, the young woman will conceive, bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.
 \f + \ft Instead of \fqa the young woman \fqa* , some versions have \fqa a young woman \fqa* .\f*
 \v 15 He will eat curds and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
 

23-ISA/19.usfm

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 \q1 See, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt;
 \q1 the idols of Egypt quake before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within themselves.
 \q1
-\v 2 "I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians: a man will fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor;
+\v 2 "I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians: A man will fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor;
 \q1 city will be against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
 
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23-ISA/28.usfm

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
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 \q1
 \v 16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,
-\q1 "See: I will lay in Zion a foundation stone, a tried stone,
+\q1 "See, I will lay in Zion a foundation stone, a tried stone,
 \q1 a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He who believes will not be ashamed.
 
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23-ISA/40.usfm

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ flower of the field.
 \q1
 \v 18 To whom then will you compare God? To what idol will you liken him?
 \q1
-\v 19 An idol! A craftsman casts it: the goldsmith overlays it with gold
+\v 19 An idol! A craftsman casts it: The goldsmith overlays it with gold
 \q1 and forges silver chains for it.
 \q1
 \v 20 To make an offering one chooses a wood that will not rot;

23-ISA/45.usfm

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
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 \q1
 \v 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen,
-\q1 I have called you by your name: giving you a title of honor, though you have not known me.
+\q1 I have called you by your name: Giving you a title of honor, though you have not known me.
 \q1
 \v 5 I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no God but me.
 \q1 I will arm you for battle, though you have not known me;

23-ISA/50.usfm

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 \q1
 \v 11 Look, all you who light fires, who equip yourselves with torches:
 \q1 walk in the light of your fire and in the flames that you have ignited.
-\q1 This is what you have received from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.
+\q1 This is what you have received from me: You will lie down in a place of pain.
 
 
 

23-ISA/55.usfm

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
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 \q1
 \v 3 Turn your ears and come to me! Listen, that you may live!
-\q1 I will make an everlasting covenant with you: my reliable, faithful love promised to David.
+\q1 I will make an everlasting covenant with you—my reliable, faithful love that I promised to David.
 \q1
 \v 4 Look, I have placed him as a witness to the nations, as a leader and commander to the peoples.
 
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 \q1 and do not return there unless they saturate the earth
 \q1 and make it produce and sprout and give seed to the farmer who sows and bread to the eater,
 \q1
-\v 11 so also my word will be that goes from my mouth: it will not return to me useless,
+\v 11 so also my word will be that goes from my mouth—it will not return to me empty,
-\q1 but it will accomplish that which I wish, and it will succeed in that for which I sent it.
+\q1 but it will achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
 
 
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24-JER/23.usfm

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
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 \q
 \v 13 For I have seen the prophets in Samaria doing what is repulsive: 
-\q they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
+\q They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
 \q
 \v 14 Among the prophets in Jerusalem I have seen horrible things:
 \q They commit adultery and walk in deceit.

24-JER/25.usfm

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ king of Babylon.
 \v 23 Dedan, Tema, and Buz with all the ones who cut the hair on the sides of their heads, they also had to drink it.
 
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-\v 24 These people also had to drink it: all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of people of mixed heritage who live in the wilderness;
+\v 24 These people also had to drink it: All the kings of Arabia and all the kings of people of mixed heritage who live in the wilderness;
 \v 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
 \v 26 all the kings of the north, the ones close by and the ones far away—everyone with his brother and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the surface of the earth. Finally the king of Babylon will drink after them all.
 

24-JER/44.usfm

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
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 \v 26 So then, hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah who are staying in the land of Egypt, 'See, I have sworn by my great name—says Yahweh. My name will no longer be called upon by the mouths of any of the men of Judah in all the land of Egypt, you who now say, "As the Lord Yahweh lives."
 \v 27 See, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. Every person of Judah in the land of Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all finished.
-\v 28 Then the survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, only a small number of them. So all the remnant of Judah who went to the land of Egypt to live there will know whose word will come true: mine or theirs.
+\v 28 Then the survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, only a small number of them. So all the remnant of Judah who went to the land of Egypt to live there will know whose word will come true: Mine or theirs.
 
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 \v 29 This will be the sign for you—this is Yahweh's declaration—that I am setting against you in this place, so that you will know that my words will certainly attack you with disaster.'

26-EZK/01.usfm

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
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 \v 4 Then I looked, and there was a windstorm coming from the north; a great cloud with fire flashing within it and brightness surrounding it and inside of it, and the fire was the color of amber inside the cloud.
-\v 5 In the middle was the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man,
+\v 5 In the middle was the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man,
 \v 6 but they had four faces each, and each of the creatures had four wings.
 
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
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 \v 15 Then I looked at the living creatures; there was one wheel on the ground beside the living creatures.
-\v 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: each wheel was like beryl, and the four had the same likeness; their appearance and structure was like a wheel intersecting another wheel.
+\v 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: Each wheel was like beryl, and the four had the same likeness; their appearance and structure was like a wheel intersecting another wheel.
 
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 \v 17 When the wheels moved, they went without turning in any direction the creatures faced.

26-EZK/11.usfm

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
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-\v 5 Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me and he said to me, "Say: This is what Yahweh says: as you are saying, house of Israel; for I know what goes through your mind.
+\v 5 Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me and he said for me to say: This is what Yahweh says, "That is what you are saying, house of Israel; for I know what goes through your mind.
 \v 6 You have multiplied the people you have killed in this city and filled its streets with them.
 \v 7 Therefore, the Lord Yahweh says this: The people you have killed, whose bodies you have laid in the midst of Jerusalem, are the meat, and this city is the pot. But you are going to be brought out from the midst of this city.
 

26-EZK/16.usfm

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 \v 48 As I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—your sister Sodom and her daughters, have not done as much evil as you and your daughters have done.
 
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-\v 49 Behold! This was the sin of your sister Sodom: she was arrogant in her leisure, careless and unconcerned about anything. She did not strengthen the hands of the poor and needy people.
+\v 49 Behold! This was the sin of your sister Sodom that she was arrogant in her leisure, careless and unconcerned about anything. She did not strengthen the hands of the poor and needy people.
 \v 50 She was arrogant and committed disgusting actions before me, so I took them away just as you have seen.
 
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26-EZK/21.usfm

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 \p
 \v 8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
 \v 9 "Son of man, prophesy and say, 'The Lord says this:
-\q Say: A sword! A sword! It will be sharpened and polished!
+\q "Say: A sword! A sword! It will be sharpened and polished!
 
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 \q Should we rejoice in my son's scepter? The coming sword hates every such rod!
 \q
 \v 11 So the sword will be given to be polished, and then to be grasped by the hand!
-\q The sword is sharpened and it is polished and it is to be given into the hand of the one who kills!'
+\q The sword is sharpened and it is polished and it is to be given into the hand of the one who kills!"'"
 
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26-EZK/28.usfm

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 \p
 \v 11 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
 \v 12 "Son of man, lift up a lament for the king of Tyre and say to him, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
-\v 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone covered you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made from gold. It was on the day you were created that they were prepared.
+\v 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone covered you: Ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made from gold. It was on the day you were created that they were prepared.
 
 
 

26-EZK/47.usfm

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 \f + \ft The Hebrew text reads \fqa You must measure from the border to the eastern sea \fqa* . However, some ancient and modern versions read \fqa to the eastern sea as far as Tamar \fqa* . \f*
 
 
-\v 19 Then the south side: south of Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh, the brook of Egypt to the Great Sea, and the southern side toward the south.
+\v 19 Then the south side: South of Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh, the brook of Egypt to the Great Sea, and the southern side toward the south.
 \v 20 Then the western boundary will be the Great Sea to where it goes opposite Lebo Hamath. This will be the western side.
 
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26-EZK/48.usfm

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 \v 9 This land that you will offer up to Yahweh will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width.
 
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-\v 10 These will be the assignments of this holy portion of land: the priests will have land assigned to them measuring twenty-five thousand cubits in length on the north side; ten thousand cubits in width on the west side; ten thousand cubits in width on the east side; and twenty-five thousand cubits in length on the south side, with the holy place of Yahweh in the middle of it.
+\v 10 These will be the assignments of this holy portion of land: The priests will have land assigned to them measuring twenty-five thousand cubits in length on the north side; ten thousand cubits in width on the west side; ten thousand cubits in width on the east side; and twenty-five thousand cubits in length on the south side, with the holy place of Yahweh in the middle of it.
 \v 11 This will be for the consecration of the priests of the line of Zadok, who have served me faithfully and who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
 \v 12 The offering for them will be a portion of this most holy land, extending to the border of the Levites.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
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 \p
 \v 15 The remaining land, five thousand cubits in width and twenty-five thousand cubits in length, will be for the collective use of the city, the houses, and the pastureland; the city will be in its midst.
-\v 16 These will be the city's measurements: the north side will be 4,500 cubits in length; the south side will be 4,500 cubits in length; the east side will be 4,500 cubits in length; and the west side will be 4,500 cubits in length.
+\v 16 These will be the city's measurements: The north side will be 4,500 cubits in length; the south side will be 4,500 cubits in length; the east side will be 4,500 cubits in length; and the west side will be 4,500 cubits in length.
 
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 \v 17 There will be pasture for the city toward the north, 250 cubits deep; to the south, 250 cubits deep; to the east, 250 cubits deep, and to the west, 250 cubits deep.
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@
 
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-\v 30 These will be the exits from the city: on the north side, which will measure 4,500 cubits in length,
+\v 30 These will be the exits from the city: On the north side, which will measure 4,500 cubits in length,
 \v 31 will be three gates, named for tribes of Israel:
 one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi.
-\v 32 On the east side, which will measure 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan.
+\v 32 On the east side, which will measure 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: One gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan.
 
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-\v 33 On the east side, which will measure 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun.
+\v 33 On the east side, which will measure 4,500 cubits in length, will be three gates: One gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun.
-\v 34 On the west side, which will measure 4,500 cubits, will be three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.
+\v 34 On the west side, which will measure 4,500 cubits, will be three gates: One gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.
 \v 35 The distance around the city will be eighteen thousand cubits; from that day on, the city's name will be "Yahweh Is There."
 

37-HAG/02.usfm

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
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 \v 13 Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean because of death touches any of these things, do they become unclean?" The
 priests answered and said, "Yes, they become unclean."
-\v 14 So Haggai answered and said, "So it is with this people and this nation before me!—this is Yahweh's declaration—and so it is with everything done by their hands: what they offer to me is unclean.
+\v 14 So Haggai answered and said, "So it is with this people and this nation before me!—this is Yahweh's declaration—and so it is with everything done by their hands. What they offer to me is unclean!
 
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 \v 15 So now, think in your minds about the past leading up to this very day. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of Yahweh,

38-ZEC/14.usfm

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will attack all the peoples that waged war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot away even as they are standing on their feet. Their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
+\v 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will attack all the peoples that waged war against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot away even as they are standing on their feet. Their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
 \v 13 On that day that great fear from Yahweh will come among them. Each one will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will be raised up against the hand of another.
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 \v 14 Judah will also fight against Jerusalem. They will gather the wealth of all the surrounding nations—gold, silver, and fine clothes in great abundance.

42-MRK/10.usfm

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
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 \v 29 Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel,
-\v 30 who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this world: houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.
+\v 30 who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this world: Houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.
 \v 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first."
 
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43-LUK/09.usfm

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
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 \v 43 Then they were all amazed at the greatness of God. While they all were marveling at everything he was doing, he said to his disciples,
-\v 44 "Let these words go deeply into your ears: the Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men."
+\v 44 "Let these words go deeply into your ears: The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men."
 \v 45 But they did not understand this statement. It was hidden from them, so they could not know its meaning, and yet they were afraid to ask about this statement.
 
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44-JHN/05.usfm

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
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 \v 28 Do not be amazed at this, for there is a time coming in which everyone who is in the tombs will hear his voice
-\v 29 and will come out: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
+\v 29 and will come out. Those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
 
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44-JHN/09.usfm

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
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 \v 6 After Jesus said these things, he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and smeared the mud on his eyes.
-\v 7 He said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which translated is: sent)." So the man went away, washed, and came back seeing.
+\v 7 He said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which translated is: Sent)." So the man went away, washed, and came back seeing.
 
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 \v 8 Then the man's neighbors and those who had seen him previously as a beggar were saying, "Is not this the man that used to sit and beg?"

44-JHN/12.usfm

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
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 \v 4 Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who would betray him, said,
 \v 5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"
-\v 6 Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief: he had the moneybag and would steal from what was put in it.
+\v 6 Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. He had the moneybag and would steal from what was put in it.
 
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 \v 7 Jesus said, "Allow her to keep what she has for the day of my burial.

44-JHN/16.usfm

@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@
 
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 \v 32 See, the hour is coming, yes, and has indeed come, when you will be scattered, everyone to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
-\v 33 I have spoken these things to you so that you will have peace in me. In the world you have troubles, but have courage: I have conquered the world."
+\v 33 I have spoken these things to you so that you will have peace in me. In the world you have troubles, but have courage, I have conquered the world."

44-JHN/17.usfm

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 \v 2 just as you gave him authority over all flesh so that he would give eternal life to everyone whom you have given him.
 
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-\v 3 This is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
+\v 3 This is eternal life: That they know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
 \v 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have finished the work that you have given me to do.
 \v 5 Now, Father, glorify me along with yourself with the glory that I had with you before the world was made.
 

45-ACT/02.usfm

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
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-\v 29 Brothers, I can speak to you confidently about the patriarch David: he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
+\v 29 Brothers, I can speak to you confidently about the patriarch David, he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
 \v 30 Therefore, he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him, that he would set one of the fruit of his body upon his throne.
 \v 31 He foresaw this and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ,
 \q 'He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.'

45-ACT/16.usfm

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 \v 35 Now when it was day, the magistrates sent word to the guards, saying, "Let those men go."
-\v 36 The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent word to me to let you go: now therefore come out, and go in peace."
+\v 36 The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent word to me to let you go. Now therefore come out, and go in peace."
 
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 \v 37 But Paul said to them, "They have publicly beaten us without a trial, even through we are Romans citizens—and they threw us into prison. Do they now want to send us away secretly? No! Let them come themselves and lead us out."

46-ROM/13.usfm

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
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 \v 6 Because of this you pay taxes also. For authorities are servants of God, who attend to this very thing continually.
-\v 7 Pay to everyone what is owed to them: tax to whom tax is due; toll to whom toll is due; fear to whom fear is due; honor to whom honor is due.
+\v 7 Pay to everyone what is owed to them. Tax to whom tax is due, toll to whom toll is due; fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.
 
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47-1CO/10.usfm

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 \v 17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we who are many are one body. We all take of one loaf of bread together.
 
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-\v 18 Look at the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
+\v 18 Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
 \v 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything? Or that food sacrificed to an idol is anything?
 
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47-1CO/15.usfm

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 \v 2 It is by this gospel that you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
 
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-\v 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
+\v 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
 \v 4 that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures.
 
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48-2CO/01.usfm

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-\v 12 We are proud of this: the testimony of our conscience. For it is in pure motives and sincerity that comes from God that we have conducted ourselves in the world. We have done this all the more with you—not in earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God.
+\v 12 We are proud of this: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, especially in relations with you, not relying on fleshly wisdom but on the grace of God.
-\v 13 We do not write to you anything you cannot read or understand. I hope that,
+\v 13 We write to you nothing that you cannot read and understand. I hope that,
-\v 14 just as you have understood us in part, we will be your reason for boasting on the day of our Lord Jesus, just as you will be our reason to boast.
+\v 14 as you have understood us in part, we will be your reason for boasting on the day of our Lord Jesus, just as you will be our reason to boast.
 
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49-GAL/05.usfm

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 \v 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
 
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-\v 19 Now the works of the sinful nature are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
+\v 19 Now the works of the sinful nature are evident: Sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
 \v 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, rivalry, dissension, divisions,
 \v 21 envy, drunkenness, drunken celebrations, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.