Yahweh self-reference edited

02-EXO/20.usfm

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-\v 7 You must not take the name of me, Yahweh your God, in vain, for I will not hold guiltless anyone who takes my name in vain.
+\v 7 You must not take the name of Yahweh your God, in vain, for I will not hold guiltless anyone who takes my name in vain.
 
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 \v 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart to me.
 \v 9 You must labor and do all your work for six days.
-\v 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath for me, Yahweh your God. On it you must not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the foreigner who is within your gates.
-\v 11 For in six days I, Yahweh, made the heavens, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and then rested on the seventh day. Therefore I, Yahweh, blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart to myself.
+\v 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God. On it you must not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the foreigner who is within your gates.
+\v 11 For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and earth, the sea, and everything that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.
 
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-\v 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land which I, Yahweh your God, am giving you.
+\v 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
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 \v 13 You must not murder anyone.
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02-EXO/22.usfm

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 \v 22 You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
-\v 23 If you afflict them at all, and if they call out to me, Yahweh, I will surely hear their call.
+\v 23 If you afflict them at all, and if they call out to me, I will surely hear their call.
 \v 24 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows, and your children will become fatherless.
 
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02-EXO/23.usfm

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 \v 23 My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and the Jebusites. I will destroy them.
 \v 24 You must not bow down to their gods, worship them, or do as they do. Instead, you must completely overthrow them and smash their stone pillars in pieces.
-\v 25 You must worship me, Yahweh your God. If you do, I will bless your bread and water. I will remove sickness from among you.
+\v 25 You must worship Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and water. I will remove sickness from among you.
 
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 \v 26 No woman will be barren or will miscarry her young in your land. I will give you long lives.

02-EXO/29.usfm

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 \v 10 You must all bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
-\v 11 You must kill the bull before me, Yahweh, at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
+\v 11 You must kill the bull before Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 
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 \v 12 You must take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
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 \v 15 You must also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
 \v 16 You must kill the ram, then take its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.
 \v 17 You must cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts and its legs, and you must put the inner parts, together with its pieces and with its head,
-\v 18 on the altar. Then burn the whole ram. It will be a burnt offering to me, Yahweh. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
+\v 18 on the altar. Then burn the whole ram. It will be a burnt offering to Yahweh, a sweet aroma, an offering made to Yahweh by fire.
 
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 \v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh, and it will be your share.
 \v 27 You must set apart to me the breast of the wave offering that is waved, and the thigh that is the contribution for the priests—both the breast that was waved and the thigh that was contributed for Aaron and his sons.
-\v 28 These portions of meat given by the Israelites must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
+\v 28 This will be a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his sons. It will be a contribution from the people of Israel to give to Yahweh from their peace offerings. 
 
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 \v 29 The holy garments of Aaron must also be reserved for his sons after him. They are to be anointed in them and ordained to me in them.
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 \v 41 You must offer the second lamb about sunset. You must offer the same grain offering as in the morning, and the same drink offering. These will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
-\v 42 These must be regular burnt offerings throughout your people's generations. You must do them at the entrance to the tent of meeting before me, Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you.
+\v 42 These must be regular burnt offerings throughout your generations, at the entrance to the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.
 
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 \v 43 That is where I will meet with the Israelites; the tent will be set apart for me by my glory.

02-EXO/30.usfm

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 \v 6 You must put the incense altar before the curtain that is by the ark of the testimony. It will be before the atonement lid that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.
 
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-\v 7 Aaron must burn fragrant incense every morning. He must burn it when he tends the lamps.
-\v 8 When Aaron lights the lamps again in the evening, he must burn incense on the incense altar. This must be a regular burning of incense before me, Yahweh, throughout your people's generations.
+\v 7 Aaron must burn fragrant incense every morning. He must burn it when he tends the lamps,
+\v 8 and Aaron lights the lamps again in the evening so incense will burn on it regularly before Yahweh, throughout your generations.
 \v 9 But you must offer no other incense on the incense altar, nor any burnt offering or grain offering. You must pour no drink offering on it.
 
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-\v 10 Aaron must make atonement on the horns of the incense altar once a year. He must do this using the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The high priest must do this throughout your people's generations. This offering will be completely set apart to me, Yahweh."
+\v 10 Aaron must make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering he will make atonement for it once a year throughout your generations. It is completely set apart to Yahweh."
 
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02-EXO/34.usfm

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 \v 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among you.
 \v 13 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
-\v 14 For you must worship no other god, for I, Yahweh, whose name is 'Jealous,' am a jealous God.
+\v 14 For you must worship no other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
 
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 \v 15 So be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for they prostitute themselves to their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods. Then one of them will invite you and you will eat some of his sacrifice,
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 \v 22 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year's end.
 
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-\v 23 All your men must appear before me, Yahweh, the God of Israel three times every year.
-\v 24 For I will drive out nations before you and expand your borders. No one will desire to invade your land and take it when you go up to appear before me, Yahweh your God, three times every year.
+\v 23 Three times a year all your men must appear before Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
+\v 24 For I will drive out nations before you and expand your borders. No one will desire to have your land as their own when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in a year.
 
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03-LEV/21.usfm

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 \v 7 They must not marry any woman who is a prostitute and who is defiled, and they must not marry a woman divorced from her husband, for they are separate for their God.
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-\v 8 You will set him apart, for he is the one who offers bread to your God. He must be holy to you, because—I, Yahweh, who makes you holy—I also am holy.
+\v 8 You will set him apart, for he is the one who offers bread to your God. He must be holy to you, because I, Yahweh who makes you holy, am holy.
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 \v 9 Any daughter of any priest who defiles herself by becoming a prostitute disgraces her father. She must be burned.
 

04-NUM/08.usfm

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 \v 8 Then have them take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mingled with oil. Let them take another young bull as a sin offering.
 
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-\v 9 Present the Levites in front of the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole community of the people of Israel.
-\v 10 Present the Levites before me, Yahweh. The people of Israel must lay their hands on the Levites.
+\v 9 You will bring the Levites in front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole community of the people of Israel.
+\v 10 When you bring the Levites before Yahweh, the people of Israel must lay their hands on the Levites.
 \v 11 Aaron must offer the Levites before Yahweh, as a wave offering from the people of Israel. He must do this so that the Levites may serve me.
 
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10-2SA/07.usfm

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-\v 18 Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh; he said, "Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my family that you have brought me to this point?
+\v 18 Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my family that you have brought me to this point?
 \v 19 Now this was a small thing in your sight, Lord Yahweh. You have even spoken about your servant's family for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, Lord Yahweh!
 \v 20 What more can I, David, say to you? You have honored your servant, Lord Yahweh.
 

23-ISA/27.usfm

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 \v 2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing of it.
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-\v 3 "I, Yahweh, am its protector; I water it every moment;
-\q1 so that no one hurts it, I guard it night and day.
+\v 3 "I, Yahweh, am its protector; I water it every moment.
+\q1 I guard it night and day so no one will hurt it.
 
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23-ISA/41.usfm

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 \v 14 Do not fear, Jacob you worm, and you men of Israel;
-\q1 I will help you—this Yahweh's declaration, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
+\q1 I will help you—this is Yahweh's declaration, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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 \v 15 Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and two-edged;
 \q1 you will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff.

24-JER/09.usfm

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 \v 21 For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces.
 \q It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares.
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-\v 22 Declare this, 'This Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields,
+\v 22 Declare this, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields,
 \q and like grain stalks after the reapers, and there will be no one to gather them.'"
 
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24-JER/29.usfm

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 \v 30 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
-\v 31 "Send word to all the exiles and say, 'Yahweh says this about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you when I myself did not send him; because he has led you to believe lies,
+\v 31 "Send word to all the exiles and say, 'Yahweh says this about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you when I myself did not send him, and he has led you to believe lies,
 \v 32 therefore Yahweh says this: Look, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be a man for him to stay among this people. He will not see the good that I will do for my people—this is Yahweh's declaration—for he has proclaimed faithlessness against me, Yahweh.'"
 
 

26-EZK/24.usfm

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 \v 13 Your shameful behavior is in your uncleanness, because I cleaned you, but still you would not become clean. You will still not be free from your uncleanness until my fury rests from you.
 
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-\v 14 I, Yahweh, have declared it will happen, and I will do it. I will not relent nor will I rest from it. As your ways were, and as your activities, they will judge you!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
+\v 14 I, Yahweh, have declared it, and I will do it. I will not relent nor will I rest from it. As your ways were, and as your activities, they will judge you!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
 
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