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01-GEN/03.usfm

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 \q "Because you have done this, 
 \q cursed are you alone among all the livestock 
 \q and all the beasts of the field. 
-\q It is on your belly that you will go, 
+\q It is on your stomach that you will go, 
 \q and it is dust that you will eat all the days of your life.
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 \v 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, 

01-GEN/19.usfm

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 \v 10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
-\v 11 As for the men who were outside the door of the house, Lot's visitors attacked them with blindness, both young and old, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the door.
+\v 11 Then Lot's visitors struck with blindness the men who were outside the door of the house, both young and old, so that they became exhausted when they were trying to find the door.
 
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01-GEN/24.usfm

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-\v 1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
+\v 1 Now Abraham was very old and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
 \v 2 Abraham said to his servant, the one who was the oldest of his household and who was in charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh
 \v 3 and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I make my home.
 \v 4 But you will go to my country, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac."

01-GEN/31.usfm

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 \v 51 Laban said to Jacob, "Look at this pile, and look at the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
 \v 52 This pile is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to me, to do harm.
-\v 53 May the God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Jacob swore by God, him whom his father Isaac feared.
+\v 53 May the God of Abraham, and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us." Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
 
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 \v 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his relatives to eat a meal. They ate and spent the entire night on the mountain.

01-GEN/32.usfm

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 \v 13 Jacob stayed there that night. He took some of what he had with him as a gift for Esau, his brother:
 \v 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
 \v 15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
-\v 16 These he handed over to his servants, every herd by itself. He said to his servants, "Go on ahead of me and put a space between each of the herds."
+\v 16 These he gave these into the hand of his servants, every herd by itself. He said to his servants, "Go on ahead of me and put a space between each of the herds."
 
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 \v 17 He instructed the first servant, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these animals in front of you?'

01-GEN/35.usfm

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 \v 20 Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. It is the marker of Rachel's grave to this day.
  
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-\v 21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
+\v 21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond the watchtower of the flock.
 \v 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
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01-GEN/36.usfm

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 \v 33 When Bela died, then Jobab son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
  
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-\v 34 When Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
-\v 35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
+\v 34 When Jobab died, Husham who was of the land of the Temanites, reigned in his place.
+\v 35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
 \v 36 When Hadad died, then Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
  
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01-GEN/37.usfm

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 \v 34 Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth upon his loins. He mourned for his son many days.
-\v 35 All his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "Indeed I will go down to sheol mourning for my son." His father wept for him.
+\v 35 All his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "Indeed I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son." His father wept for him.
 \v 36 The Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard.
 
 

01-GEN/42.usfm

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 \v 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring Benjamin back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him to you again."
-\v 38 Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the road in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol."
+\v 38 Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the road in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol."
  
 
 

01-GEN/44.usfm

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 \v 27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
 \v 28 And the one went out from me and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since."
-\v 29 And if you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol.'
+\v 29 And if you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol.'
 
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 \v 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life,
-\v 31 it will come about, when he sees that the boy is not with us that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to sheol.
+\v 31 it will come about, when he sees that the boy is not with us that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
 \v 32 For your servant became a guarantee for the boy to my father and said, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the guilt to my father forever.'
 
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01-GEN/46.usfm

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 \v 8 These were the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn;
 \v 9 the sons of Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;
 \v 10 the sons of Simeon, Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman;
-\v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
+\v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 
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-\v 12 the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah,(but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
+\v 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
 \v 13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Lob, and Shimron;
 \v 14 The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel
-\v 15 These were the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
+\v 15 These were the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
 
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 \v 16 The sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Er, Arodi, and Areli.
-\v 17 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. And Serah was their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel
-\v 18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter. These she bore to Jacob—sixteen in all.
+\v 17 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah; and Serah was their sister. The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel
+\v 18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter. These sons she bore to Jacob—sixteen in all.
 
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 \v 19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

01-GEN/47.usfm

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 \v 25 They said, "You have saved our lives. May we find favor in your eyes. We will be Pharaoh's servants."
-\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
+\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
 
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01-GEN/50.usfm

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 \v 18 His brothers also went and lay facedown before him. They said, "See, we are your servants."
 \v 19 But Joseph answered them, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
 \v 20 And as for you, you meant to harm me, but God meant it for good, to preserve the lives of many people, as you see today.
-\v 21 So now do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children." He comforted them in this way and spoke kindly to them.
+\v 21 So now do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children." He comforted them in this way and spoke kindly to their hearts.
 
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02-EXO/01.usfm

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 \v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
 \v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
 \v 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
-\v 5 Everyone who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
+\v 5 All the people who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
 
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 \v 6 Then Joseph, all his brothers, and all that generation died.

02-EXO/03.usfm

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 \v 4 When Yahweh saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." Moses said, "Here I am."
-\v 5 God said, "Do not come any closer! Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is ground that is dedicated to me."
+\v 5 God said, "Do not come any closer! Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is ground that is set apart to me."
 \v 6 He added, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
 
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02-EXO/06.usfm

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 \v 6 Therefore, say to the Israelites, 'I am Yahweh. I will bring you out from slavery under the Egyptians, and I will free you from their power. I will rescue you with a display of my power, and with mighty acts of judgment.
-\v 7 I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from slavery under the Egyptians.
+\v 7 I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from slavery under the Egyptians.
 
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 \v 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.'"

02-EXO/10.usfm

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 \v 13 Moses reached out with his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind over the land all that day and night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
 
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-\v 14 The locusts went through all the land of Egypt and infested all parts of it. So many locusts had never before been in the land and never will be again.
+\v 14 The locusts went through all the land of Egypt and infested all parts of it. Never before had there been such a swarm of locusts in the land, and nothing like this will come after it.
 \v 15 They covered the surface of the whole land so that it was darkened. They ate every plant in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Throughout all the land of Egypt, no living green plant remained, nor any tree or plant in the fields.
 
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02-EXO/12.usfm

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 \v 15 You will eat bread without yeast during seven days. On the first day you will remove the yeast from your houses. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person must be cut off from Israel.
-\v 16 On the first day there will be an assembly that is dedicated to me, and on the seventh day there will be another such gathering. No work will be done on these days, except the cooking for everyone to eat. That must be the only work that may be done by you.
+\v 16 On the first day there will be an assembly that is set apart to me, and on the seventh day there will be another such gathering. No work will be done on these days, except the cooking for everyone to eat. That must be the only work that may be done by you.
 
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 \v 17 You must observe this Festival of Unleavened Bread because it is on this day that I will have brought your people, armed group by armed group, out of the land of Egypt. So you must observe this day throughout your people's generations. This will always be a law for you.

02-EXO/13.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 2 "Dedicate to me all the firstborn, every firstborn male among the Israelites, both of people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me."
+\v 2 "Set apart to me all the firstborn, every firstborn male among the Israelites, both of people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me."
 
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02-EXO/16.usfm

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 \v 9 Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the community of the people of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your complaints.'"
 \v 10 It came about, as Aaron spoke to the whole community of the people of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, Yahweh's glory appeared in the cloud.
 \v 11 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 12 "I have heard the complaints of the people of Israel. Speak to them and say, 'In the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, your God.'"
+\v 12 "I have heard the complaints of the people of Israel. Speak to them and say, 'In the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
 
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02-EXO/19.usfm

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 \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will come to you in a thick cloud so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you forever." Then Moses told the people's words to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people. Today and tomorrow you must dedicate them to me, and make them wash their garments.
+\v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people. Today and tomorrow you must set them apart to me, and make them wash their garments.
 \v 11 Be ready for the third day, for the third day I, Yahweh, will come down to Mount Sinai.
 
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 \v 13 No one's hand must touch such a person. Instead, he must certainly be stoned or shot. Whether it is a person or an animal, he must be put to death. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may come up to the foot of the mountain."
 
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-\v 14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He dedicated the people to Yahweh, and they washed their garments.
+\v 14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He set apart the people to Yahweh and they washed their garments.
 \v 15 He said to the people, "Be ready on the third day; do not go near your wives."
 
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 \v 22 Let the priests also who come near to me set themselves apart—prepare themselves for my coming—so that I do not attack them."
 
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-\v 23 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people cannot come up to the mountain, for you commanded us: 'Set boundaries around the mountain and dedicate it to Yahweh.'"
+\v 23 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people cannot come up to the mountain, for you commanded us: 'Set boundaries around the mountain and set it apart to Yahweh.'"
 \v 24 Yahweh said to him, "Go, get down the mountain, and bring up Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people break through the barrier to come up to me, or I will attack them."
 \v 25 So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

02-EXO/20.usfm

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 \v 1 God spoke all these words:
-\v 2 "I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
+\v 2 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
 \v 3 You must have no other gods before me.
 
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-\v 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to dedicate it to me.
+\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 dedicated it to myself.
+\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.
 
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02-EXO/24.usfm

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 \v 5 He sent some Israelite young men to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice fellowship offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
-\v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it into basins; he splashed the other half onto the altar.
+\v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it into basins; he sprinkled the other half onto the altar.
 
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-\v 7 He took The Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will do all that Yahweh has spoken. We will be obedient."
-\v 8 Then Moses took the blood and splashed it onto the people. He said, "This is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you by giving you this promise with all these words."
+\v 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will do all that Yahweh has spoken. We will be obedient."
+\v 8 Then Moses took the blood and sprinkled it onto the people. He said, "This is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you by giving you this promise with all these words."
 
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02-EXO/27.usfm

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-\v 20 You must command the Israelites to bring pure olive oil of pressed olives for the lamps so that they may burn continually.
-\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is before the ark of the covenant decrees, Aaron and his sons must maintain the lamps from evening to morning before Yahweh. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance forever throughout the generations of the Israelite nation.
+\v 20 You must command the people of Israel to bring olive oil, pure and pressed, for the lamps so they may burn continually.
+\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance throughout the generations of the people of Israel.

02-EXO/28.usfm

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 \v 1 Call to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar— from among the Israelites so that they may serve me as priests.
-\v 2 You must make for Aaron, your brother, garments that are dedicated to me. These garments will be for his honor and splendor.
+\v 2 You must make for Aaron, your brother, garments that are set apart to me. These garments will be for his honor and splendor.
 \v 3 You must speak to all people who are wise in heart, those whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron's garments to set him apart to serve me as my priest.
 
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-\v 4 The garments that they must make are a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of woven work, a turban, and a sash. They must make these garments that are dedicated to me. They will be for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 4 The garments that they must make are a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of woven work, a turban, and a sash. They must make these garments that are set them apart to me. They will be for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests.
 \v 5 Craftsmen must use fine linen that is gold, blue, purple, and scarlet.
 
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-\v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, DEDICATED TO YAHWEH.
+\v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, "Holy to Yahweh."
 \v 37 You must attach this plate by a blue cord to the front of the turban.
-\v 38 It must be on Aaron's forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites dedicate to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
+\v 38 It must be on Aaron's forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites set is apart to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
 
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 \v 40 For Aaron's sons you must make coats, sashes, and headbands for their honor and splendor.
-\v 41 You must clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. You must anoint them, ordain them, and dedicate them to me, so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 41 You must clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. You must anoint them, ordain them, and set them apart to me, so that they may serve me as priests.
 
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02-EXO/29.usfm

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-\v 1 Now this is what you must do to dedicate them to me so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
+\v 1 Now this is what you must do to set them apart to me so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
 \v 2 bread without yeast, and cakes without yeast mixed with oil. Also take wafers without yeast rubbed with oil. Make the wafers using fine wheat flour.
 
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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.
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 \v 16 You must kill the ram. Then take its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.
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+\v 16 You must kill the ram. Then take its blood and sprinkled it against the altar on every side and on it.
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 \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.
 
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 \v 19 You must then take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
-\v 20 Then you must kill the ram and take some of its blood. Put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the tip of his sons' right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the great toe of their right feet. Then you must splash blood against the altar on every side.
+\v 20 Then you must kill the ram and take some of its blood. Put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the tip of his sons' right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the great toe of their right feet. Then you must sprinkle the blood against the altar on every side.
 
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-\v 21 You must take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and splash it all on Aaron and on his garments, and also on his sons and on their garments. Aaron will then be set apart for me, as well as his garments, his sons and his sons' garments with him.
+\v 21 You must take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it all on Aaron and on his garments, and also on his sons and on their garments. Aaron will then be set apart for me, as well as his garments, his sons and his sons' garments with him.
 
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 \v 22 You must take the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh—for this ram is for the priests' consecration to me.
 \v 23 Take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of bread without yeast that will be before me, Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 You must put these in Aaron's hands and in the hands of his sons. They must raise them up before me, Yahweh, and present them as an offering to me.
+\v 24 You must put these in Aaron's hands and in the hands of his sons and wave them before me for a wave offering before Yahweh.
 \v 25 You must then take the food from their hands and burn it on the altar with the burnt offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
 
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-\v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and raise it up and present it as an offering to me, Yahweh. Then it will be your portion to eat.
-\v 27 You must dedicate to me the breast of the offering that is raised high and the thigh of the offering that is presented—the breast that is raised and the thigh that is presented, both coming from the ram for the confirmation of Aaron and his sons to me.
+\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 offering of the wave offering and the thigh of the offering that is waved, and the thigh that is contribution for the priests , both breat 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.
 
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-\v 31 You must take the ram for the dedication of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.
+\v 31 You must take the ram for the installation of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.
 \v 32 Aaron and his sons must eat the ram's meat and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
-\v 33 They must eat the meat and bread that were given to atone for them and to ordain them, to be dedicated to me. No one else may eat that food, because they must treat it as consecrated to me, reserved for me.
-\v 34 If any of the meat of the ordination offering, or any of the bread, remains to the next morning, then you must burn it. It must not be eaten because it has been dedicated to me.
+\v 33 They must eat the meat and bread that were given to atone for them and to ordain them, to be set apart to me. No one else may eat that food, because they must treat it as consecrated to me, reserved for me.
+\v 34 If any of the meat of the ordination offering, or any of the bread, remains to the next morning, then you must burn it. It must not be eaten because it has been set apart to me.
 
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-\v 35 In this way, by following all that I have commanded you to do, you must treat Aaron and his sons. You must take seven days to dedicate them to me.
-\v 36 Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. You must purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you must anoint it in order to dedicate it to me. 
-\v 37 For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and dedicate it to Yahweh. Then the altar will be completely dedicated to me. Whatever touches the altar will be set apart for Yahweh.
+\v 35 In this way, by following all that I have commanded you to do, you must treat Aaron and his sons. For seven days you must prepare them.
+\v 36 Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. You must purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you must anoint it in order to set it apart to me. 
+\v 37 For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and set it apart it to Yahweh. Then the altar will be completely set apart to me. Whatever touches the altar will be set apart to Yahweh.
 
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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.
-\v 44 I will dedicate the tent of meeting and the altar for these to belong to me alone. I will also dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
+\v 44 I will set apart the tent of meeting and the altar for these to belong to me alone. I will also set apart Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
 
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 \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 dedicated to me, Yahweh."
+\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."
 
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 \v 28 the altar for burnt offerings with all its equipment, and the basin with its stand.
 
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-\v 29 You must dedicate them to me so that they may be completely dedicated to me. Anything that touches them will also be set apart for me.
-\v 30 You must anoint Aaron and his sons and dedicate them to me so that they may serve me as priests.
-\v 31 You must say to the Israelites, 'This must be an anointing oil that is dedicated to Yahweh throughout your people's generations.
+\v 29 You must set them apart to me so that they may be holy to me. Anything that touches them will also be holy.
+\v 30 You must anoint Aaron and his sons and set them aside to me so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 31 You must say to the Israelites, 'This must be an anointing oil that is set apart to Yahweh throughout your people's generations.
 
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-\v 32 It must not be applied to people's skin, nor must you make any oil like it with the same formula, because it is dedicated to Yahweh. You must regard it in this manner.
+\v 32 It must not be applied to people's skin, nor must you make any oil like it with the same formula, because it is set apart to Yahweh. You must regard it in this manner.
 \v 33 Whoever makes perfume like it, or whoever puts any of it on someone, that person must be cut off from his people.'"
 
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 \v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum—sweet spices along with pure frankincense, each in equal amounts.
-\v 35 Make it into the form of incense, blended by a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and dedicated to me.
-\v 36 You will grind it into a very fine mixture. Put part of it in front of the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. You will regard it as completely dedicated to me.
+\v 35 Make it into the form of incense, blended by a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and set apart.
+\v 36 You will grind it into a very fine mixture. Put part of it in front of the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. You will regard it as very holy to me.
 
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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 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.
 
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 \v 20 Then all the tribes of Israel left and went away from Moses's presence.
 \v 21 Everyone whose heart stirred him up and whom his spirit made willing came and brought an offering to Yahweh for the construction of the tabernacle, for all the items of service in it, and for the holy garments.
-\v 22 They came, both men and women, all who had a willing heart. They brought brooches, earrings, rings, and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry. They all presented offerings of gold to Yahweh.
+\v 22 They came, both men and women, all who had a willing heart. They brought brooches, earrings, rings, and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry. They all presented offerings of gold as a wave offering to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 All the gold that was used for the project, in all the work connected with the holy place—the gold from the presentation offering—was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, measured by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
+\v 24 All the gold that was used for the project, in all the work connected with the holy place—the gold from the wave offering—was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, measured by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
 \v 25 The silver given by the community weighed one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel, 
 \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 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 the offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
+\v 29 The bronze from wave offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
 
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-\v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold; they engraved on it, like the engraving on a signet, DEDICATED TO YAHWEH.
+\v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold; they engraved on it, like the engraving on a signet, "Holy to Yahweh."
 \v 31 They attached to the turban a blue cord to the top of the turban. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 
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 \v 5 You must put the golden incense altar before the ark of the covenant decrees, and you must put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
 \v 6 You must put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
-\v 7 You must put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you must put water in it.
+\v 7 You must put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and you must put water in it.
 
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 \v 8 You must set up the courtyard around it, and you must hang up the curtain at the courtyard entrance.
-\v 9 You must take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything that is in it. You must dedicate it and all its furnishings to me; then it will be holy.
-\v 10 You must anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils. You must dedicate the altar to me, and it will become completely dedicated to me.
-\v 11 You must anoint the bronze basin and its base, and dedicate it to me.
+\v 9 You must take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything that is in it. You must set it apart and all its furnishings to me; then it will be holy.
+\v 10 You must anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils. You must set apart the altar to me and it will become very holy to me.
+\v 11 You must anoint the bronze basin and its base and set it apart to me.
 
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-\v 12 You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and you must wash them with water.
-\v 13 You are to clothe Aaron with the garments that are dedicated to me, anoint him, and dedicate him to me so that he may serve as my priest.
+\v 12 You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and you must wash them with water.
+\v 13 You are to clothe Aaron with the garments that are set apart to me, anoint him and set him apart so that he may serve as my priest.
 
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 \v 4 He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and then it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for himself.
 
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-\v 5 Then he must kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and splash it on the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
+\v 5 Then he must kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and sprinkle it on the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 \v 6 Then he must skin the burnt offering and cut it to pieces.
 
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 \v 10 If his offering for the burnt offering is from the flock, one of the sheep or one of the goats, he must offer a male without blemish.
-\v 11 He must kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will splash its blood on every side of the altar.
+\v 11 He must kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will sprinkle its blood on every side of the altar.
 
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 \v 1 When anyone brings a grain offering to Yahweh, his offering must be fine flour, and he will pour oil on it and put incense on it.
 \v 2 He is to take the offering to Aaron's sons the priests, and there the priest will take out a handful of the fine flour with the oil and the incense on it. Then the priest will burn the offering on the altar as a representative offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
-\v 3 Whatever is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is completely dedicated to Yahweh from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
+\v 3 Whatever is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is very holy to Yahweh from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
 
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 \v 8 You must bring the grain offering made from these things to Yahweh, and it will be presented to the priest, who will bring it to the altar.
 \v 9 Then the priest will take some from the grain offering as a representative offering, and he will burn it on the altar. It will be an offering made by fire, and it will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
-\v 10 What is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is completely dedicated to Yahweh from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
+\v 10 What is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is very holy to Yahweh from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
 
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 \v 1 If someone offers a sacrifice which is a fellowship offering of an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must offer an animal without blemish before Yahweh.
-\v 2 He will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+\v 2 He will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle its blood on the sides of the altar.
 
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 \v 6 If the man's sacrifice of a fellowship offering to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he must offer a sacrifice without blemish.
 \v 7 If he offers a lamb for his sacrifice, then he must offer it before Yahweh.
-\v 8 He will lay his hand on the head of his sacrifice and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+\v 8 He will lay his hand on the head of his sacrifice and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons will sprinkle its blood on the sides of the altar.
 
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 \v 9 The man will offer the sacrifice of fellowship offerings as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat, the entire fat tail cut away close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the inner parts and all the fat that is near the inner parts,
 \v 10 and the two kidneys and the fat that is with them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys—he will remove all of this.
-\v 11 And the priest will burn it all on the altar as a food offering made by fire to Yahweh.
+\v 11 And the priest will burn it all on the altar as a burnt offering of food to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 12 And if the man's offering is a goat, then he will offer it before Yahweh.
-\v 13 He must lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then the sons of Aaron will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+\v 13 He must lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then the sons of Aaron will sprinkle its blood on the sides of the altar.
 \v 14 The man will offer his sacrifice made by fire to Yahweh. He will remove the fat that covers the inner parts, and all the fat near the inner parts.
 
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 \v 15 He will also remove the two kidneys and the fat that is with them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver with the kidneys.
-\v 16 The priest will burn all that on the altar as a food offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma. All the fat belongs to Yahweh.
+\v 16 The priest will burn all that on the altar as a burnt offering of food, to produce a sweet aroma. All the fat belongs to Yahweh.
 \v 17 It will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in every place you make your home, that you must not eat fat or blood.'"
 
 

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 \v 4 He must bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, lay his hand on its head, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
-\v 5 The anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting. 
+\v 5 The anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and take it to the tent of meeting. 
 
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 \v 7 If he cannot afford to buy a lamb, then he can bring as his guilt offering for his sin two doves or two young pigeons to Yahweh, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
 \v 8 He must bring them to the priest, who will offer one for the sin offering first—he will wring off its head from its neck but will not remove it completely from the body.
-\v 9 Then he will splash some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and he will drain the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar. This is a sin offering.
+\v 9 Then he will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and he will drain the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar. This is a sin offering.
 
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 \v 14 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
 \v 15 "If anyone violates a command and sins against the things that belong to Yahweh, but did so unintentionally, then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh. This offering must be a ram without blemish from the flock; its value must be appraised in silver shekels—the shekel of the sanctuary—as a guilt offering.
-\v 16 He must satisfy Yahweh for what he had done wrong in connection with what is holy, and he must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and that person will be forgiven.
+\v 16 He must satisfy Yahweh for what he had done wrong in connection with what is holy, and he must add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and that person will be forgiven.
 
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 \v 4 then it will come about, if he has sinned and is guilty, that he must restore whatever he took by robbery or oppression or taking what was entrusted to him or the lost thing that he found.
 
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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 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 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 26 The priest who offers it for sin will eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 27 Whatever touches its meat will become holy, and if the blood is splashed on any garment, you must wash it, the part that was splashed on, in a holy place.
+\v 27 Whatever touches its meat will become holy, and if the blood is sprinkled on any garment, you must wash it, the part that was sprinkled on, in a holy place.
 \v 28 But the clay pot in which it is boiled must be broken. If it is boiled in a bronze pot, it must be scrubbed and rinsed clean in water.
 
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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 splash its blood against every side of the altar.
+\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 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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 \v 13 Also for the purpose of giving thanks, he must offer with his peace offering cakes of bread made with yeast.
-\v 14 He is to offer one of each kind of these sacrifices as an offering presented to Yahweh. It will belong to the priests who splashed the blood of the peace offerings onto the altar.
+\v 14 He is to offer one of each kind of these sacrifices as an offering presented to Yahweh. It will belong to the priests who sprinkle the blood of the peace offerings onto the altar.
 
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 \v 28 So Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, 
 \v 29 "Speak to the people of Israel and say, 'He who offers the sacrifice of a peace offering to Yahweh must bring part of his sacrifice to Yahweh.
-\v 30 The offering for Yahweh to be made by fire, his own hands must bring it. He must bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be an offering raised before Yahweh and presented to him.
+\v 30 The offering for Yahweh to be made by fire, his own hands must bring it. He must bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may waved as a wave offering before Yahweh.
 
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 \v 33 The priest, one of Aaron's descendants, who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat—he will have the right thigh as his share of the offering.
-\v 34 For I have taken the offering of the breast and thigh that was raised and presented to me, and I have given them to Aaron, the high priest and to his descendants; this will always be their share from the sacrifices of peace offerings made by the people of Israel.
+\v 34 For I have taken the breast may be waved and the thigh may be presented, and they may be presented to Aaron the priest and his sons as their regular share from the people of Israel.
 
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-\v 10 Moses took the anointing oil, anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and dedicated them to Yahweh.
-\v 11 He sprinkled the oil on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the washbasin and its base, to dedicate them to Yahweh.
+\v 10 Moses took the anointing oil, anointed the tabernacle and everything in it and set them apart to Yahweh.
+\v 11 He sprinkled the oil on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the washbasin and its base, to set them apart to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him in order to dedicate him to Yahweh.
-\v 13 Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with tunics; he tied sashes around their waists and wrapped linen cloth around their heads, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to set him apart.
+\v 13 Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with tunics. He tied sashes around their waists and wrapped linen cloth around their heads, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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 \v 18 Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
-\v 19 He killed it and splashed its blood against every side of the altar.
+\v 19 He killed it and sprinkled its blood against every side of the altar.
 
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 \v 22 Then Moses presented the other ram, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
 \v 23 Aaron killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
-\v 24 He brought Aaron's sons, and he put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. Then Moses splashed its blood against every side of the altar.
+\v 24 He brought Aaron's sons, and he put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. Then Moses sprinkled its blood against every side of the altar.
 
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 \v 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh. 
 \v 26 Out of the basket of bread without yeast that was before Yahweh, he took one loaf without yeast, and one loaf of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. 
-\v 27 He put it all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, raised them high as an offering before Yahweh.
+\v 27 He put it all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them before Yahweh as a wave offering. 
 
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 \v 28 Then Moses took them from off their hands and burned them on the altar for the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering and produced a sweet aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
-\v 29 Moses took the breast and raised it high as an offering to Yahweh. It was Moses' share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 29 Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering to Yahweh. It was Moses' share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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-\v 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil and the blood that was on the altar; he sprinkled these on Aaron, on his clothes, on his sons, and on his sons' clothes with him. In this way he dedicated Aaron and his clothes, and his sons and their clothes to Yahweh.
+\v 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil and the blood that was on the altar; he sprinkled these on Aaron, on his clothes, on his sons, and on his sons' clothes with him. In this way he set apart Aaron and his clothes, and his sons and their clothes to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 18 He killed also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice for the peace offering, which was for the people. Aaron's sons gave him the blood, which he splashed against every side of the altar.
-\v 19 However, the fat of the bull and the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the kidneys, and the covering of the liver—
+\v 18 He killed also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice for the peace offering, which was for the people. Aaron's sons gave him the blood, which he sprinkled against every side of the altar.
+\v 19 However, they cut out the fat of the bull and the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the kidneys, and the covering of the liver.
 
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-\v 20 they put these on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar.
-\v 21 Aaron raised the breasts and the right thigh high as an offering before Yahweh and presented them to him, as Moses had commanded.
+\v 20 They took the parts that were cut out and put these on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar.
+\v 21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses had commanded.
 
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 \v 13 You must eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons' share of the offerings to Yahweh made by fire, for this is what I have been commanded to tell you.
 
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-\v 14 The breast that is raised as an offering and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh—these you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
-\v 15 The thigh that is an offering presented to Yahweh and the breast that is raised as an offering—they must bring those together with the offerings of fat made by fire, to raise them high and present them as an offering to Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
+\v 14 The breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh, you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
+\v 15 The thigh that is presented and the breast that is waved, they must bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to wave before Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
 
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03-LEV/11.usfm

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-\v 20 All flying insects that walk on legs must be detested by you.
-\v 21 Yet you may eat any of the flying insects that also walk on legs if they have legs above their feet, which they use to leap on the ground.
+\v 20 All winged insects that walk on four legs are detestable to you.
+\v 21 Yet you may eat any of the flying insects that also walk on four legs if they have a jointed legs for hopping on the ground.
 \v 22 And you may also eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
 \v 23 But all the flying insects that have four feet must be detested by you.
 
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 \v 43 You must not make yourselves unclean with any living creatures that creep; you must not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be made impure by them.
-\v 44 For I am Yahweh your God. Therefore dedicate yourselves to me and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves with any kind of animal that moves on the ground.
+\v 44 For I am Yahweh your God. You are to keep yourselves holy, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves with any kind of animal that moves about on the ground.
 \v 45 For I am Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You must therefore be holy, for I am holy.
 
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03-LEV/14.usfm

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 \v 11 The priest who cleansed him will stand the person who is to be cleansed, along with those things, before Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil; he will raise them up as an offering before Yahweh and present them to him.
+\v 12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil; he will wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
 \v 13 He must kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offerings and the burnt offerings, in the area of the tabernacle, for the sin offering belongs to the priest, as does the guilt offering, because it is most holy.
 
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-\v 21 However, if the person is poor and cannot afford these sacrifices, then he may take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be raised and presented to Yahweh to make atonement for himself, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil, 
+\v 21 However, if the person is poor and cannot afford these sacrifices, then he may take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for himself, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil, 
 \v 22 together with two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; one bird will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
 \v 23 On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting, before Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 Then the priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and he will raise them up as an offering to Yahweh and present them to him.
+\v 24 Then the priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and he will wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
 \v 25 He will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, and he will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
 
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 \v 36 Then the priest will command that they empty the house before he goes in to see the evidence of mildew, so that nothing in the house will be made unclean. Afterward the priest must go in to see the house.
-\v 37 He must examine the mildew to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the walls' surface.
+\v 37 He must examine the mildew to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the wall's surface.
 \v 38 If the house does have mildew, then the priest will go out of the house and shut the door to the house for seven days.
 
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03-LEV/15.usfm

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-\v 16 If any man's semen goes out from him spontaneously, then he must bathe his whole body in water; he will be unclean until evening.
+\v 16 If any man has an emission of semen, then he must bathe his whole body in water; he will be unclean until evening.
 \v 17 Every garment or leather on which there is semen must be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
 \v 18 And if a woman and a man sleep together and there is a transfer of semen to her, they must both bathe themselves in water; they will be unclean until evening.
 

03-LEV/16.usfm

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 \v 17 No one must be in the tent of meeting when Aaron enters it to make atonement in the most holy place, and until he comes out and has finished making atonement for himself and for his family, and for all the assembly of Israel.
 \v 18 He must go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and he must take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
-\v 19 He must sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and dedicate it to Yahweh, away from the unclean actions of the people of Israel.
+\v 19 He must sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and set it apart to Yahweh, away from the unclean actions of the people of Israel.
 
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-\v 20 When he has finished atoning for the most holy place, the tent of meeting, the altar, he must present the live goat.
+\v 20 When he has finished atoning for the most holy place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he must present the live goat.
 \v 21 Aaron must lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over him all the wickedness of the people of Israel, all their rebellion, and all their sins. Then he must put that sinfulness on the head of the goat and send the goat away in the care of a man who is ready to lead the goat into the wilderness.
 \v 22 The goat must carry on himself all the people's wickedness to a solitary place. There in the wilderness, the man must let the goat go free.
 

03-LEV/17.usfm

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 \v 5 The purpose of this command is so that the people of Israel will bring their sacrifices to Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting, to the priest to be sacrificed as fellowship offerings to Yahweh, instead of offering sacrifices in an open field.
-\v 6 The priest will splash the blood on Yahweh's altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting; he will burn the fat for it to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
+\v 6 The priest will sprinkle the blood on Yahweh's altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting; he will burn the fat for it to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
 
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 \v 7 The people must no longer offer their sacrifices to goat idols, for which they act as prostitutes. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their people's generations.'

03-LEV/18.usfm

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 \v 20 Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.
 
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-\v 21 You must not give any of your children to pass through the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
+\v 21 You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
 
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03-LEV/19.usfm

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 \v 5 When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must offer it that you may be accepted.
 \v 6 It must be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it must be burned.
 \v 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is defiled. It must not be accepted, 
-\v 8 but everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has polluted what was dedicated to Yahweh. That person must be cut off from his people.
+\v 8 but everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has dishonored what was holy to Yahweh. That person must be cut off from his people.
 
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03-LEV/20.usfm

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 \v 6 The person who turns to those who talk with the dead, or to those who talk with spirits so as to prostitute themselves with them, I will set my face against that person; I will cut him off from among his people.
-\v 7 Therefore dedicate yourselves to Yahweh and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God.
+\v 7 Therefore consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God.
 \f + \ft Several modern versions have: \fqa ... Because I, Yahweh your God, am holy \fqb \f*
 
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-\v 8 You must keep my commands and carry them out. I am Yahweh, who dedicates you to myself.
+\v 8 You must keep my commands and carry them out. I am Yahweh who sets you apart as holy.
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 \v 9 Everyone who curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, so he is guilty and deserves to die.
 

03-LEV/21.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses: "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'No one among you shall make himself unclean for those who die among his people,
-\v 2 except for a close relative—for his mother and father, for his son and daughter, or for his brother 
-\v 3 or a virgin sister who is in his house and who has had no husband. For her he may make himself unclean.
+\v 2 except for his closest relatives—his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother, 
+\v 3 or his virgin sister who has no husband—he may make himself unclean for her. 
 
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-\v 4 But he must not make himself unclean for other relatives, so as to defile himself.
+\v 4 But he must not make himself unclean for other relatives and so defile himself.
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 \v 5 Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards, nor cut their bodies.
-\v 6 They must be separate for their God, and not disgrace the name of their God, because the priests offer the sacrifices to Yahweh by fire, the "food" of their God. Therefore they must be separate.
+\v 6 They must be holy to their God and not disgrace the name of their God, because the priests offer Yahweh's food offerings, the bread of their God. Therefore the priests must be holy.
 
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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 must dedicate him for he offers the "food" from your God. He must be holy in your sight, because I, Yahweh, who dedicates you to myself, am also 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—I also 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.
 
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-\v 10 He who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the special garments of the high priest, must not wear his hair loose or tear his clothes.
+\v 10 The one who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the special garments of the high priest, must not wear his hair loose or tear his clothes.
 \v 11 He must not go anywhere that a dead body is present and defile himself, even for his father or his mother.
 \v 12 The high priest must not leave the sanctuary area of the tabernacle or profane the sanctuary of his God, because he has been consecrated as high priest by the anointing oil of his God. I am Yahweh.
 
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 \v 13 The high priest must marry a virgin as his wife.
-\v 14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman who is a prostitute. He must not marry these kinds of women. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.
-\v 15 He must obey these rules, so as not to defile his children among his people, for I am Yahweh, who dedicates him to myself.'"
+\v 14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman who is a prostitute. He will not marry these kinds of women. He may only marry a virgin from his own people,
+\v 15 so he will not defile his children among his people, for I am Yahweh, who makes him holy.'"
 
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 \v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 17 "Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'Whoever of your descendants throughout their generations has a bodily defect, he must not approach to offer the 'food' of his God.
+\v 17 "Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'Whoever of your descendants throughout their generations has a bodily defect, he must not approach to offer the food to his God.
 
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-\v 18 Any man who has a bodily defect must not approach Yahweh, such as a blind man, a lame man, one who is disfigured or deformed,
+\v 18 Any man who has a bodily defect must not approach Yahweh, such as a blind man or a man who is unable to walk, one who is disfigured or deformed,
 \v 19 a man with a crippled hand or foot,
-\v 20 hunchbacked or dwarfed man, or a man with a defect in his eyes, or with a disease, sore, scabs, or damaged private parts.
-\v 21 No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest with a bodily defect may come near to perform the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. Such a man has a bodily defect; he must not come near to offer the 'food' of his God.
+\v 20 a man who has hump in his back or is abnormally thin or short, or a man with a defect in his eyes, or with a disease, sore, scabs, or whose testicles have been crushed.
+\v 21 No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest with a bodily defect may come near to perform the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. Such a man has a bodily defect; he must not come near to offer the bread of his God.
 
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 \v 22 He may eat the food of his God, whether some of the most holy or some of the holy.
-\v 23 However, he must not enter inside the curtain or come near the altar, because he has a bodily defect, so that he does not defile my holy place, for I am Yahweh, who dedicates them to myself.'"
+\v 23 However, he must not enter inside the curtain or come near the altar, because he has a bodily defect, so that he does not defile my holy place, for I am Yahweh, who makes them holy.'"
 \v 24 So Moses spoke these words to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the people of Israel.
 
 

03-LEV/22.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 2 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, tell them to keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me. They must not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
-\v 3 Say to them, 'Anyone among all your descendants throughout your people's generations who is unclean when he approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to Yahweh, that person must be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
+\v 2 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, tell them to keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they set apart to me. They must not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
+\v 3 Say to them, 'If any of your descendants throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel have set apart to Yahweh, while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from before me: I am Yahweh.
 
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 \v 7 When the sun has set, he will then be clean. After sunset he may eat from the holy things, because they are his food.
 \v 8 He must not eat anything found dead or killed by wild animals, by which he would defile himself. I am Yahweh.
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-\v 9 The priests must follow my instructions, or they will be guilty of sin and could die for profaning me. I am Yahweh, who dedicates them to myself.
+\v 9 The priests must follow my instructions, or they will be guilty of sin and could die for profaning me. I am Yahweh who makes them holy.
 
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 \v 10 No one outside the priest's family, including guests of a priest or his hired servants, may eat anything that is holy.
-\v 11 But if a priest buys any slave with his own money, that slave may eat from the things set apart for Yahweh. And the priest's family members and slaves born in his house, they also may eat with him from those things.
+\v 11 But if a priest buys any slave with his own money, that slave may eat from the things set apart to Yahweh. And the priest's family members and slaves born in his house, they also may eat with him from those things.
 
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-\v 14 If a man eats a holy food without knowing it, then he must repay the priest for it; he must add one fifth to it and give it back to the priest.
+\v 14 If a man eats a holy food without knowing it, then he must repay the priest for it; he must add one-fifth to it and give it back to the priest.
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 \v 15 The people of Israel must not dishonor the holy things that they have raised high and presented to Yahweh, 
-\v 16 and cause themselves to carry the sin that would make them guilty of eating the holy food, for I am Yahweh, who dedicates them to myself.'"
+\v 16 and cause themselves to carry the sin that would make them guilty of eating the holy food, for I am Yahweh who makes them holy.'"
 
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-\v 24 Do not offer animals to Yahweh that have bruised, crushed, torn, or cut reproductive organs. Do not offer these in your land,
-\v 25 and do not accept them from a foreigner's hand as food presented to God, because there are defects or blemishes in them. I will not accept them on your behalf.'"
+\v 24 Do not offer any animal to Yahweh that has bruised, crushed, torn, or cut testicles. Do not do this within your land.
+\v 25 You must not present the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner. Those animals are deformed and have defects in them, they will not be accepted for you.'"
 
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 \v 31 So you must keep my commandments and carry them out. I am Yahweh.
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-\v 32 You must not dishonor my holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy by the people of Israel. I am Yahweh who dedicates you to myself,
-\v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh." 
+\v 32 You must not dishonor my holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy by the people of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
+\v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am Yahweh." 
 
 
 

03-LEV/23.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses:
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, 'The appointed festivals for Yahweh, which you must proclaim as holy assemblies, are my regular festivals.
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, 'These are the appointed festivals for Yahweh, which you must proclaim as holy assemblies; they are my regular festivals.
 
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 \v 3 You may work for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must do no work because it is a Sabbath for Yahweh in all the places where you live.
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 \v 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread for Yahweh. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
 
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-\v 7 On the first day you have an assembly that is dedicated to Yahweh, you must not do ordinary work.
-\v 8 You must offer a sacrifice made by fire to Yahweh for seven days. The seventh day is an assembly that is dedicated to Yahweh in which you must do no ordinary work.'"
+\v 7 The first day you must set apart to gather together; you will not do any of your regular work.
+\v 8 You will present a food offering to Yahweh for seven days. The seventh day is an assembly set apart to Yahweh, and on that day you must not do any regular work.'"
 
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-\v 15 You must count from the day after that Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the offering to be lifted up and presented, seven full weeks, seven Sabbaths,
-\v 16 until the day after the seventh Sabbath. That is, you must count fifty days. Then you must offer an offering of new grain to Yahweh. 
+\v 15 Beginning from the day after the Sabbath—that was the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering—count seven full weeks.
+\v 16 You must count fifty days, which would be the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you must present an offering of new grain to Yahweh.  
 
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-\v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be an offering from the firstfruits that will be raised and presented to Yahweh.
+\v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be a wave offering of the firstfruits to Yahweh.
 \v 18 You must present with the bread seven lambs one year old and without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They must be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire and producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
 
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 \v 19 You must offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice, as fellowship offerings.
-\v 20 The priest must raise them up before Yahweh, together with the bread of the firstfruits, and present them to him as an offering with the two lambs. They will be holy offerings to Yahweh for the priest.
+\v 20 The priest must wave them together with the bread of the firstfruits before Yahweh, and present them to him as an offering with the two lambs. They will be holy offerings to Yahweh for the priest.
 \v 21 You must make a proclamation on that same day. There will be a holy assembly, and you must do no ordinary work. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in all the places where you live.
 
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 \v 26 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 27 "Now the tenth day of this seventh month will be the Day of Atonement. It must be an assembly that is dedicated to Yahweh, you must humble yourselves and make a sacrifice offered with fire to Yahweh.
+\v 27 "Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is to  be a holy assembly, and you must humble yourselves and present to Yahweh an offering by fire.
 
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 \v 28 You must do no work on that day because it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for yourselves before Yahweh your God.
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 \v 30 Whoever does any work on that day, I, Yahweh, will destroy him from among his people.
 \v 31 You must do no work of any kind on that day. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in all the places where you live.
-\v 32 This day must be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you humble yourselves the ninth day of the month. From evening to evening you must keep your Sabbath."
+\v 32 This day must be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you must humble yourselves the ninth day of the month at the evening. From evening to evening you are to observe your Sabbath."
 
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03-LEV/24.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 2 "Command the people of Israel to bring to you pure oil beaten from olives for your oil lamps, for them to always burn and give light.
+\v 2 "Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil beaten from olives to be used in the lamp, that the light may burn continually.
 
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 \v 3 Outside the curtain before the covenant decrees in the tent of meeting, Aaron must continually, from evening to morning, keep the lamp lit before Yahweh. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations.
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 \v 7 You must put pure incense along each row of loaves as a representative offering. This incense will be burnt for Yahweh.
 \v 8 Every Sabbath day the high priest must regularly set out the bread before Yahweh on behalf of the people of Israel, as a sign of an everlasting covenant.
-\v 9 This offering will be for Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a place that is holy, for it is completely dedicated to him, since it was taken from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire." 
+\v 9 This offering will be for Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a place that is holy, for it is a portion from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire." 
 
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03-LEV/25.usfm

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 \v 9 Then you must blow a loud trumpet everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you must blow a trumpet throughout all your land.
 
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-\v 10 You must dedicate the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families. 
+\v 10 You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families. 
 
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 \v 11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You must not plant or conduct an organized harvest. Eat whatever grows by itself, and gather the grapes that grow on the unpruned vines.
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-\v 13 You must return everyone to his own property in this Year of Jubilee.
+\v 13 You must return everyone to his own property in this year of Jubilee.
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 \v 14 If you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any land from your neighbor, you must not cheat or wrong each other.
 
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 \v 15 If you buy land from your neighbor, consider the number of years and crops that can be harvested until the next Jubilee. Your neighbor selling the land must consider that also. 
 \v 16 A larger number of years until the next Jubilee will increase the value of land, and a smaller number of years until the next Jubilee will decrease the value, because the number of harvests the land will produce for the new owner is related to the number of years before the next Jubilee.
-\v 17 You must not cheat or wrong one another; instead, you must honor your God, for I am Yahweh, your God.
+\v 17 You must not cheat or wrong one another; instead, you must honor your God, for I am Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 26 If a man has no relative to redeem his property, but if he has prospered and has the ability to redeem it, 
 \v 27 then he may calculate the years since the land was sold and repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it. Then he may return to his own property.
-\v 28 But if he is not able to get the land back for himself, then the land he has sold will remain in the ownership of the one who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. At the Year of Jubilee, the land will be returned to the man who sold it, and the original owner will return to his property.
+\v 28 But if he is not able to get the land back for himself, then the land he has sold will remain in the ownership of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. At the year of Jubilee, the land will be returned to the man who sold it, and the original owner will return to his property.
 
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 \v 29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may buy it back within a whole year after it was sold. For a full year he will have the right of redemption.
-\v 30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the man who bought it, throughout his descendants' generations. That house is not to be returned in the Jubilee.
+\v 30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the man who bought it, throughout his descendants' generations. That house is not to be returned in the year of Jubilee.
 
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-\v 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall round around them will be property in connection with the fields of the country. They may be bought back, and they must be returned during the jubilee.
+\v 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. They may be redeemed, and they must be returned during the year of Jubilee.
 \v 32 However, the houses owned by the Levites in their cities may be redeemed at any time.
 
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-\v 33 If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.
+\v 33 If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the year of Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.
 \v 34 But the fields around their cities may not be sold because they are the permanent property of the Levites.
 
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 \v 39 If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.
-\v 40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. 
+\v 40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee. 
 \v 41 Then he will go away from you, he and his children with him, and he will return to his own family and to his fathers' property.
 
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 \v 49 It might be the person's uncle, or his uncle's son, who redeems him, or anyone who is his close relative from his family. Or, if he has become prosperous, he may redeem himself.
-\v 50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
+\v 50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
 
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-\v 51 If there are still many years until Jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.
-\v 52 If there are only a few years to the Year of Jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before Jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.
+\v 51 If there are still many years until the year of Jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.
+\v 52 If there are only a few years to the year of Jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before the year of Jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.
 
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 \v 53 He is to be treated like a man hired year by year. You must make sure he is not treated with harshness.
-\v 54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
+\v 54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
 \v 55 To me the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"
 
 

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-\v 23 If in all this you still do not accept my teaching but continue to walk against me, 
-\v 24 then I will also walk against you. I myself will hit you with even seven times more blows for your sins.
+\v 23 If in spite of these things you still do not accept my correction and you continue to walk in opposition to me, 
+\v 24 then I will also walk in opposition to you, and I myself will punish you seven times because of your sins.
 
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-\v 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be defeated by the power of your enemy.
+\v 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.
 \v 26 When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
 
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 \v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies' lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
 \v 35 As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.
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 \v 36 As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.
 
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 \v 40 Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers' sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me—
-\v 41 which caused me to turn against them and give them over into their enemies' land—if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins, 
+\v 41 which caused me to turn against them and I brought them into the land of their enemies—if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins, 
 \v 42 then will I call to mind my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; also, I will call the land to mind.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When a man makes a special vow that requires him to use a standard value of a person he dedicates to Yahweh, use the following values.
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'If anyone makes a special vow to Yahweh, use the following valuations.
 
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-\v 9 If someone wants to sacrifice an animal to Yahweh, and if Yahweh accepts it, then that animal will be dedicated to him.
+\v 9 If someone wants to sacrifice an animal to Yahweh, and if Yahweh accepts it, then that animal will be set apart to him.
 \v 10 The person must not alter or change such an animal, a good one for a bad one or a bad for a good. If he does at all change one animal for another, then both it and the one for which it is exchanged become holy.
 
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-\v 14 When a man desires to dedicate his house to be set apart for Yahweh, then the priest will estimate its value. Whatever the priest values it at, that will be its value.
-\v 15 But if the owner dedicates his home and later wishes to redeem it, then a fifth of its value is to be added to its redemption price, and then the house will be his again.
+\v 14 When a man sets apart his house as a holy gift to Yahweh, then the priest will set its value as either good or bad. Whatever the priest values it, so it will be.
+\v 15 But if the owner who set apart his home wishes to redeem it, he must add a fifth of its value to its redemption price, and it will belong to him.
  
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-\v 16 If a man desires to dedicate to Yahweh some of his land, then the estimation of its value will be made in keeping with the amount of seed required to plant it. One homer of barley will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
+\v 16 If a man sets apart some of his own land, then the valuation of it will be in proportion to the amount of seed required to plant it—a homer of barley will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
  
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-\v 17 If he dedicates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the estimated value will stand.
-\v 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest must calculate the value of the field by the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and the estimated value must be reduced.
+\v 17 If he sets apart his field during the year of Jubilee, the valuation of it will stand.
+\v 18 But if he sets apart his field after the year of Jubilee, then the priest must calculate the value of the field by the number of years that remain until the next year of Jubilee, and the valuation of it must be reduced.
  
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-\v 19 If the man who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he must add a fifth to the estimated value, and it will be become his again.
+\v 19 If the man who set apart the field wishes to redeem it, then he must add a fifth to the valuation, and it will be become his again.
 \v 20 If he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed any more. 
-\v 21 Instead, the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, will be a holy gift to Yahweh, like the field that has been completely given to Yahweh. It will belong to the priest.
+\v 21 Instead, the field, when it is released in the  year of Jubilee, will be a holy gift to Yahweh, like the field that has been completely given to Yahweh. It will belong to the priest.
 
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-\v 22 If a man dedicates to Yahweh a field that he has bought, but that field is not part of his family's land, 
-\v 23 then the priest will figure the estimated value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.
+\v 22 If a man sets apart a field that he has bought, but that field is not part of his family's land, 
+\v 23 then the priest will figure the valuation of it up to the year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.
  
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-\v 24 In the Year of Jubilee, the field will return to the man from whom it was bought, to the land's owner.
-\v 25 All the estimated values must be set by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel.
+\v 24 In the year of Jubilee, the field will return to the man from whom it was bought, to the land's owner.
+\v 25 All the valuations must be set by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel.
  
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-\v 26 But a firstborn among animals already belongs to Yahweh and no man may dedicate it—whether ox or sheep—for it belongs to Yahweh.
-\v 27 If it is an unclean animal, then the owner may buy it back at the estimated value, and a fifth must be added to that value. If the animal is not redeemed, then it is to be sold at the set value.
+\v 26 No one may set apart the firstborn among animals, since the firstborn already belongs to Yahweh; whether ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.
+\v 27 If it is an unclean animal, then the owner may buy it back at the valuation of it, and a fifth must be added to that value. If the animal is not redeemed, then it is to be sold at the set value.
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-\v 28 However, nothing a man dedicates to Yahweh from anything he has, whether human or animal, or his family land, may be sold or redeemed. Every dedicated thing is holy to Yahweh.
-\v 29 No ransom may be paid for the person who is set apart to be destroyed. That person must be put to death. 
+\v 28 But nothing that a man devotes to Yahweh, from all that he has, whether human or animal, or his family land, may be sold or redeemed. Everything that is devoted is very holy to Yahweh.
+\v 29 No ransom may be paid for the person who is devoted for destruction. That person must be put to death. 
  
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-\v 32 As for all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, one tenth must be dedicated to Yahweh. 
+\v 32 As for every tenth of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, one-tenth must be set apart to Yahweh. 
 \v 33 The shepherd must not search for the better or the worse animals, and he must not substitute one for another. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy. It cannot be redeemed.'"
  
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 \v 5 Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
 \v 6 "Speak to the people of Israel. When a man or woman commits any sin such as people do to one another, and is unfaithful to me, that person is guilty.
-\v 7 Then he must confess the sin that he has done. He must completely pay back the price of his guilt and add to the price one fifth more. He must give this to the one he has wronged.
+\v 7 Then he must confess the sin that he has done. He must completely pay back the price of his guilt and add to the price one-fifth more. He must give this to the one he has wronged.
  
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 \v 8 But if the wronged person has no close relative to receive the payment, he must pay the price for his guilt to me through a priest, along with a ram to atone for himself.
 \v 9 Every offering of the people of Israel, the things that are set aside and brought to the priest by the people of Israel, will belong to him.
-\v 10 The sacred offerings of every person will be for the priest; if anyone gives anything to the priest, it will belong to him." 
+\v 10 The offerings of every person will be for the priest; if anyone gives anything to the priest, it will belong to him." 
  
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 \v 20 But if you, a woman under her husband, have gone astray, if you are defiled, and if some other man has slept with you, 
 \v 21 then, (the priest must cause the woman to swear an oath that can bring down a curse on her, and then he must continue speaking to the woman) 'Yahweh will make you into a curse that will be shown to your people to be such. This will happen if Yahweh causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.
-\v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach, swell your abdomen and waste away your thighs.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.'
+\v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your belly, swell your abdomen and waste away your thighs.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.'
  
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-\v 5 During all the time of his vow of separation, no razor is to be used on his head until the days of his separation to Yahweh are fulfilled. He must be dedicated to Yahweh. He must let the hair grow long on his head.
+\v 5 During all the time of his vow of separation, no razor is to be used on his head until the days of his separation to Yahweh are fulfilled. He must be set apart to Yahweh. He must let the hair grow long on his head.
  
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 \v 10 On the eighth day he must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
-\v 11 The priest must offer one bird as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. These will atone for him because he sinned by being near the dead body. He must rededicate himself to Yahweh on that same day.
+\v 11 The priest must offer one bird as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. These will atone for him because he sinned by being near the dead body. He must reconsecrated his head on that day.
  
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-\v 12 He must rededicate himself to Yahweh for the time of his separation. He must bring a male lamb one year old as a guilt offering. The days before he defiled himself must not be counted, because he was defiled while he was separate for God.
+\v 12 He must set himself apart to Yahweh for the days of his consecration. He must bring a male lamb one year old as a guilt offering. The days before he defiled himself must not be counted, because his consecration was defiled.
  
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 \v 19 The priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one loaf of bread without yeast out of the basket, and one wafer without yeast. He must place them into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his head indicating separation.
-\v 20 The priest must raise them high as an offering before Yahweh and present them to him. This is holy food reserved for the priest, together with the breast that was raised and the thigh that was offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
+\v 20 The priest must wave them as an offering before Yahweh, a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented for the priest. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
  
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-\v 1 On the day that Moses completed the tabernacle, he anointed it and dedicated it to Yahweh, together with all of its furnishings. He did the same for the altar and all its utensils. He anointed them and dedicated them to Yahweh.
+\v 1 On the day that Moses completed the tabernacle, he anointed it and set it apart to Yahweh, together with all of its furnishings. He did the same for the altar and all its utensils. He anointed them and set them apart to Yahweh.
 \v 2 On that day, the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestor's families, offered sacrifices. These men were leading the tribes. They had overseen the counting of the men in the census.
 \v 3 They brought their offerings before Yahweh. They brought six covered carts and twelve oxen. They brought one cart for every two leaders, and each leader brought one ox. They presented these things in front of the tabernacle.
  
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 \v 12 On the first day, Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, offered his sacrifice. 
 \v 13 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
-\v 14 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
+\v 14 He gave one gold dish that weighed ten shekels and was full of incense.
  
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 \v 36 On the fifth day, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the descendants of Simeon, offered his sacrifice.
-\v 37 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering.
+\v 37 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
 \v 38 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
  
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 \v 42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the descendants of Gad, offered his sacrifice.
 \v 43 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
-\v 44 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense,
+\v 44 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
  
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 \v 48 On the seventh day, Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the descendants of Ephraim, offered his sacrifice.
-\v 49 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering.
+\v 49 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
 \v 50 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
  
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 \v 54 On the eighth day, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the descendants of Manasseh, offered his sacrifice.
-\v 55 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering.
+\v 55 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
 \v 56 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
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 \v 66 On the tenth day, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of the descendants of Dan, offered his sacrifice.
-\v 67 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering.
+\v 67 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
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 \v 78 On the twelfth day, Ahira son of Enan, leader of the descendants of Naphtali, offered his sacrifice.
-\v 79 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering.
+\v 79 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
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-\v 84 The leaders of Israel dedicated all these things on the day that Moses anointed the altar. They dedicated twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.
+\v 84 The leaders of Israel set all these apart on the day that Moses anointed the altar. They set apart the twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.
 \v 85 Each silver platter weighed 130 shekels and each bowl weighed seventy shekels. All the silver vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel.
 \v 86 Each of the twelve gold dishes, full of incense, weighed ten shekels by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. All the gold dishes weighed 120 shekels.
  
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-\v 87 They dedicated as burnt offerings twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve year-old male lambs. They gave their grain offering. They gave twelve male goats as a sin offering.
-\v 88 From all their cattle, they gave twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old, as the sacrifice for the fellowship offering. This was for the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.
+\v 87 They set apart all the animals for the burnt offerings, twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve year-old male lambs. They gave their grain offering. They gave twelve male goats as a sin offering.
+\v 88 From all their cattle, they gave twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old, as the sacrifice for the fellowship offering. This was for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.
  
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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 11 Aaron must offer the Levites before me, presenting them as if they were raised high before him, on the behalf of the people of Israel. He must do this so that the Levites may serve me.
+\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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 \v 12 The Levites must place their hands on the heads of the bulls. You must offer one bull for a sin offering and the other bull for a burnt offering to me, to atone for the Levites.
-\v 13 Present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and lift them up as an offering to me.
+\v 13 Present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and lift them up as a wave offering to me.
  
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 \v 14 In this way you must separate the Levites from among the people of Israel. The Levites will belong to me.
-\v 15 After that, the Levites must go in to serve in the tent of meeting. You must purify them. You must lift them up to me as an offering.
+\v 15 After that, the Levites must go in to serve in the tent of meeting. You must purify them. You must offer them as a wave offering.
  
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 \v 20 Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of the people of Israel did this with the Levites. They did everything that Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites. The people of Israel did this with them.
-\v 21 The Levites purified themselves from sin by washing their clothes. Aaron presented them as an offering to Yahweh and atoned for them, in order to purify them.
+\v 21 The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering to Yahweh and he made atonement for them to cleanse them.
  
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 \v 11 They must keep the Passover in the second month on the fourteenth day at evening. They must eat it with bread without yeast and with bitter herbs.
-\v 12 They must leave none of it until the morning, nor must they break a bone of animals. They must keep all the rules for the Passover.
+\v 12 They must not leave it until the morning, or break any of its bones. They must follow all the regulations for the Passover.
  
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 \v 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets. This will always be a regulation for you throughout your people's generations. 
  
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-\v 9 When you go to war in your land against an adversary who oppresses you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets. I, Yahweh, your God, will call you to mind and save you from your enemies.
+\v 9 When you go to war in your land against an adversary who oppresses you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets. I, Yahweh your God, will call you to mind and save you from your enemies.
  
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-\v 10 Also, at the times of celebration, both your regular festivals and at the beginnings of the months, you must blow the trumpets in honor of your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices for your fellowship offerings. These will act as a reminder of you to me, your God. I am Yahweh, your God."
+\v 10 Also, at the times of celebration, both your regular festivals and at the beginnings of the months, you must blow the trumpets in honor of your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices for your fellowship offerings. These will act as a reminder of you to me, your God. I am Yahweh your God."
  
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04-NUM/11.usfm

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 \v 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will bear the burden of the people with you. You will not have to bear it alone.
 
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-\v 18 Say to the people, 'Dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. You will indeed eat meat, for you have wept in Yahweh's hearing. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." So Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it.
+\v 18 Say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow and you will indeed eat meat, for you have wept and Yahweh has heard. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it.
 \v 19 You will not eat meat for only one day, two days, five days, ten days, or twenty days,
 \v 20 but you will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. It will disgust you because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you. You have wept before him. You said, "Why did we leave Egypt?"'"
  

04-NUM/14.usfm

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 \v 4 They said to each another, "Let us choose another leader, and let us return to Egypt."
-\v 5 Then Moses and Aaron lay face down before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
+\v 5 Then Moses and Aaron lay facedown before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
  
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 \v 6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were some of those sent to examine the land, tore their clothes.
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 \v 14 They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
  
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-\v 15 Now if you kill this people as one person, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
+\v 15 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
 \v 16 'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them, 
 he has killed them in the wilderness.' 
  

04-NUM/15.usfm

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 \v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you go into the land where you will live, which Yahweh will give to you—
-\v 3 and when you make an offering by fire to him—either a burnt offering, or a sacrifice for a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock—
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you go into the land where you will live, which Yahweh will give to you,
+\v 3 you are to prepare an offering by fire to Yahweh, either a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a pleasing aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock.
  
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-\v 4 then the one bringing the sacrifice must offer to Yahweh a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil.
-\v 5 You must also prepare a fourth of a hin of wine as the drink offering. Do this with the burnt offering or with the sacrifice of each lamb.
+\v 4 You must offer to Yahweh a burnt offering as well as a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil.
+\v 5 You must also offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, one-fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
 
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 \v 6 If you are offering a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

04-NUM/16.usfm

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 \v 1 Now Korah son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, descendants of Reuben, gathered some men.
 \v 2 They rose up against Moses, along with other men from the people of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the community who were well-known members in the community.
-\v 3 They assembled themselves together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said to them, "You take too much on yourselves. All the community are holy, reserved for Yahweh, every one of them, and Yahweh is among them. Why do you lift up yourselves above the rest of Yahweh's community?"
+\v 3 They assembled themselves together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said to them, "You have gone too far! All the community is set apart, every one of them, and Yahweh is among them. Why do you lift up yourselves above the rest of Yahweh's community?"
 
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 \v 4 When Moses heard that, he lay facedown.
-\v 5 He spoke to Korah and to all his group; he said, "In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is dedicated to Yahweh. He will bring up to himself the man he chooses. Yahweh will bring him up to himself.
+\v 5 He spoke to Korah and to all those with him, "In the morning Yahweh will make known who belongs to him and who is set apart to him. He will bring that person near to him. The one he chooses he will bring near to himself. 
  
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 \v 6 Do this, Korah and all your group. Take censers 
-\v 7 tomorrow and put fire and incense in them before Yahweh. The one whom Yahweh chooses, that man will be dedicated to Yahweh. You have gone too far, you descendants of Levi."
+\v 7 tomorrow and put fire and incense in them before Yahweh. The one whom Yahweh chooses, that man will be set apart to Yahweh. You have gone too far, you descendants of Levi."
  
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 \v 15 Moses was very angry and said to Yahweh, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed any of them."
-\v 16 Then Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow you and all your company must go before Yahweh, you, they, and Aaron.
+\v 16 Then Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow you and all your company must go before Yahweh—you and they, and Aaron.
 \v 17 Each of you must take his censer and put incense in it. Then each man must bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred and fifty censers. You and Aaron, also, must each bring your censer."
  
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 \v 28 Then Moses said, "By this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own accord.
 \v 29 If these men die a natural death such as normally happens, then Yahweh has not sent me.
-\v 30 But if Yahweh creates an opening in the ground that swallows them up like a large mouth, along with all their families, and if they go down alive into sheol, then you must understand that these men have despised Yahweh."
+\v 30 But if Yahweh creates an opening in the ground that swallows them up like a large mouth, along with all their families, and if they go down alive into Sheol, then you must understand that these men have despised Yahweh."
  
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 \v 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their families, and all the people who belonged to Korah, as well as all their possessions.
  
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-\v 33 They and everyone in their families went down alive into sheol. The earth closed over them, and in this way they perished from the midst of the community.
+\v 33 They and everyone in their families went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed over them, and in this way they perished from the midst of the community.
 \v 34 All Israel around them fled from their cries. They exclaimed, "The earth may swallow us up also!"
 \v 35 Then fire flashed out from Yahweh and devoured the 250 men who had offered incense.
  
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 \v 36 Again Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 37 "Speak to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest and tell him to take the censers out of the smoldering remains, for the censers are dedicated to me. Then they must scatter the embers.
-\v 38 Take the censers of those who lost their lives because of their sin. Let them be made into hammered plates as a covering over the altar. Those men did offer them before me, so they are dedicated to me. They will be a sign of my presence to the people of Israel."
+\v 37 "Speak to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the flames, for the censers are set apart to me. Then let him scatter the burning coals at a distance.
+\v 38 Take the censers of those who lost their lives because of their sin. Let them be made into hammered plates as a covering over the altar. Those men did offer them before me, so they are set apart to me. They will be a sign of my presence to the people of Israel."
  
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 \v 44 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 45 "Go away from in front of this community so that I may consume them immediately." Then Moses and Aaron they lay facedown.
+\v 45 "Go away from in front of this community so that I may consume them immediately." And Moses and Aaron lay down with their faces to the ground.
 \v 46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take the censer, put fire in it from off the altar, put incense in it, carry it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because anger is coming from Yahweh. The plague has begun."
  
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04-NUM/17.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel. Take staffs from them, one for each of the ancestors' tribe. Take twelve staffs, one from each leader chosen from each tribe. Write each man's name on his staff.
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and get staffs from them, one for each ancestral tribe, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff.
  
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 \v 8 The next day Moses went into the tent of the covenant decrees and, behold, Aaron's staff for the tribe of Levi had budded. It grew buds and produced blossoms and ripe almonds!
-\v 9 Moses brought out all the staffs from before Yahweh to all the people of Israel. Each man found his rod and took it.
+\v 9 Moses brought out all the staffs from before Yahweh to all the people of Israel, and each man took his staff.
  
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 \v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put Aaron's staff in front of the covenant decrees. Keep it as a sign of guilt against the people who rebelled so that you may end complaints against me, or they will die."

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 people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your ongoing share.
-\v 9 These things from the offerings that are completely dedicated to Yahweh, but are not completely burned up, will be yours. Every sacrifice the people bring, including every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—all these very holy offerings that they reserve for me and bring to me—will be for you and for your sons.
+\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.
  
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-\v 10 It is completely dedicated to me, that you must eat these offerings. Every male among you must eat these offerings. They must be regarded by you as reserved for me.
-\v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: their gifts that are set apart from all the raised offerings of the people of Israel, offerings that have been raised high before me and presented to me. 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 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.
  
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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.
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 \v 16 Those that are to be bought back by the people must be bought back after becoming one month old. Then the people may buy them back, for the price of five shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.
  
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-\v 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat—you must not buy back these animals; they are dedicated to me. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for me.
+\v 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat—you must not buy back these animals; they are set apart to me. You must sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to Yahweh.
 \v 18 Their meat will be yours. Like the raised breast and the right thigh, their meat will be yours.
  
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-\v 19 All the presented offerings of holy things that the people of Israel offer to me—I have given them to you, to your sons and to your daughters, as an ongoing share. They stand for a covenant of salt, a binding covenant forever, before me with you and your descendants."
-\v 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You must have no inheritance in the people's land, nor must you have any share of property among the people. I am your share and inheritance among the people of Israel.
+\v 19 All the holy offerings that the people of Israel present to Yahweh, I have given to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a continual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt, a binding covenant forever, before Yahweh for both you and your descendants with you."
+\v 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in the people's land, nor will you have any share of property among the people. I am your share and inheritance among the people of Israel.
  
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 \v 23 The Levites must do the work connected to the tent of meeting. They will be responsible for any sin regarding it. This will be a permanent law throughout your people's generations. And among the people of Israel they must have no inheritance.
-\v 24 For the tithes of the people of Israel, which they offer as a presented offering to me—it is these that I have given to the Levites as their inheritance. That is why I said to them, 'They must have no inheritance among the people of Israel.'"
+\v 24 For the tithes of the people of Israel, which they offer as a contribution to me—it is these that I have given to the Levites as their inheritance. That is why I said to them, 'They must have no inheritance among the people of Israel.'"
  
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 \v 25 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 26 "You must speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you receive from the people of Israel the tenth that Yahweh has given you from them as your inheritance, then you must offer up a presented offering from that tenth to him, a tenth of the tithe.
-\v 27 Your presented offering must be considered by you as if it were a tenth of the grain from the threshing floor or of the production from the winepress.
+\v 26 "You must speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you receive from the people of Israel the tenth that Yahweh has given you from them as your inheritance, then you must offer up to him up a contribution from that tenth, a tenth of the tithe.
+\v 27 Your contribution must be considered by you as if it were a tenth of the grain from the threshing floor or of the production from the winepress.
  
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-\v 28 So you also must make a presented offering to Yahweh from all the tithes that you receive from the people of Israel. From them you must give his presented offering to Aaron the priest.
-\v 29 Out of all the gifts you receive, you must make every presented offering to Yahweh. You must do this from all the best and the holiest things that have been given to you.'
+\v 28 So you also must make a contribution to Yahweh from all the tithes that you receive from the people of Israel. From them you must give his contribution to Aaron the priest.
+\v 29 Out of all the gifts you receive, you must make every contribution to Yahweh. You must do this from all the best and the holiest things that have been given to you.'
  
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-\v 30 Therefore you must say to them, 'When you present the best of what you have received, then it must be considered by the Levites like the produce from the threshing floor and the winepress.
+\v 30 Therefore you must say to them, 'When you present the best of it, then it must be credited to the Levites as the product from the threshing floor and the winepress.
 \v 31 You may eat the rest of your gifts in any place, you and your families, because it is your pay in return for your work in the tent of meeting.
 \v 32 You will not incur any guilt by eating and drinking it, if you have presented to Yahweh the best of what you have received. But you must not profane the holy offerings of the people of Israel, or you will die.'"
 

04-NUM/20.usfm

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 \v 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, 
-\v 8 "Take your staff and assemble the community, you, and Aaron your brother. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and command it to flow with water. You will produce water for them out of that rock, and you must give it to the community and their cattle to drink."
+\v 8 "Take the staff and assemble the community, you, and Aaron your brother. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and command it to flow with water. You will produce water for them out of that rock, and you must give it to the community and their cattle to drink."
 \v 9 Moses took the staff from before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
  
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 \v 11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, and much water came out. The community drank, and their cattle drank.
  
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-\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me or dedicated me to be holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them."
+\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me or honor me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them."
 \v 13 This place was called the waters of Meribah because the people of Israel had quarreled with Yahweh there, and he showed himself to them as holy.
 
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 \v 20 But the king of Edom replied, "You may not pass through." So the king of Edom came against Israel with a strong hand with many soldiers.
-\v 21 The king of Edom refused to allow Israel cross over their border. Because of this, Israel turned away from the land of Edom.
+\v 21 The king of Edom refused to allow Israel to cross over their border. Because of this, Israel turned away from the land of Edom.
  
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04-NUM/21.usfm

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 \v 10 Then the people of Israel traveled on and camped at Oboth.
-\v 11 They traveled from Oboth and camped at Lye Abarim in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the east.
+\v 11 They traveled from there and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the east.
  
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04-NUM/22.usfm

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 \v 12 God replied to Balaam, "You must not go with those men. You must not curse the people of Israel because they have been blessed."
 \v 13 Balaam rose up in the morning and said to Balak's leaders, "Go back to your land because Yahweh refuses to allow me to go with you."
-\v 14 So the leaders of Moab left and went back to Balak. They said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."
+\v 14 So the leaders of Moab left and went back to Balak. They said, "Balaam refused to come with us."
  
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 \v 33 The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away from me, I would certainly have killed you and spared her life."
  
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-\v 34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned. I did not know that you were standing in the road against me. Now then, if this trip displeases you, I will return from where I came."
+\v 34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned. I did not know that you stood against me in the road. So now, if it is displeasing to you, I will turn back."
 \v 35 But the angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go on ahead with the men. But you must only speak the words that I tell you." So Balaam went with the leaders of Balak.
  
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04-NUM/23.usfm

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 \v 3 Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand at your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you." So he went away to a hilltop with no trees.
  
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-\v 4 God met him, and Balaam said to him, "I have built seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each one."
+\v 4 While he was on the hilltop, God met him, and Balaam said to him, "I have built seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each one."
 \v 5 Yahweh put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak and speak to him."
 \v 6 So Balaam returned to Balak, who was standing by his burnt offering, and all the leaders of Moab were with him.
  
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 \v 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob
-\q2 or number even only one fourth of Israel?
+\q2 or number even only one-fourth of Israel?
 \q Let me die the death of a righteous person,
 \q2 and let my life's end be like his!"
  

04-NUM/24.usfm

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-\v 8 God brings him out of Egypt.
-\q He has strength like a wild ox.
+\v 8 God brings him out of Egypt,
+\q with strength like a wild ox.
 \q2 He will eat up the nations who fight against him.
 \q2 He will break their bones to pieces.
 \q2 He will shoot them with his arrows.

04-NUM/25.usfm

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 \v 8 He followed the Israelite man into the tent and thrust the spear through both of their bodies, both the Israelite man and the woman. So a plague that God had sent on the people of Israel stopped.
-\v 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand number.
+\v 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.
  
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04-NUM/27.usfm

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 \v 2 They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and before all the community at the entrance to the tent of meeting. They said,
-\v 3 "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among those who gathered together against Yahweh in the company of Korah. He died in his own sin; instead, it was because of his own sin that he died.
+\v 3 "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among those who conspired against Yahweh in the company of Korah. He died for his own sin, and he had no sons.
  
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 \v 4 Why should our father's name be taken away from among his clan members because he had no son? Give us land among our father's relatives."

04-NUM/28.usfm

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 \v 3 You must also say to them, 'This is the offering made by fire that you must offer to Yahweh—male lambs a year old without blemish, two each day, as a regular burnt offering.
 \v 4 One lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer in the evening.
-\v 5 You must offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil.
+\v 5 You must offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil.
  
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 \v 6 This is the regular burnt offering that was commanded at Mount Sinai to produce a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
-\v 7 The drink offering with it must be a fourth of a hin for one of the lambs. You must pour out in the holy place a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
+\v 7 The drink offering with it must be one-fourth of a hin for one of the lambs. You must pour out in the holy place a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
 \v 8 The other lamb you must offer in the evening along with another grain offering like the one offered in the morning. You must also offer another drink offering with it, an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
  
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 \v 13 You must also offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb. This is to be the burnt offering, to produce a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  
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-\v 14 The people's drink offerings must be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is to be the burnt offering for every month throughout the months of the year.
+\v 14 The people's drink offerings must be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is to be the burnt offering for every month throughout the months of the year.
 \v 15 One male goat as a sin offering to Yahweh must be offered. This will be in addition to the regular burnt offering and the drink offering with it.
  
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04-NUM/29.usfm

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 \v 3 You must offer with them their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
-\v 4 and one tenth for each lamb of the seven lambs.
+\v 4 and one-tenth for each lamb of the seven lambs.
 \v 5 And you must offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
  
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04-NUM/30.usfm

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 \v 9 But as for a widow or a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself will remain in force against her.
-\v 10 And if a woman in her husband's family makes a vow—if she binds herself by a promise with an oath,
-\v 11 and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her—if he does not cancel her vow, then all her vows must remain in force. Every promise with which she has bound herself remains in force.
+\v 10 And if a woman made a vow in her husband's house or obligates herself by taking an oath,
+\v 11 and her husband hears of it but he says nothing to her and he does oppose her, then all her vows must stand and the obligations she made must remain in force.
  
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 \v 12 But if her husband cancels them on the day that he heard about them, then whatever came out of her lips about her vows or promises will not remain in force. Her husband has canceled them. Yahweh will release her.

04-NUM/32.usfm

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 \v 1 Now the descendants of Reuben and of Gad had large numbers of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer and Gilead, the land was a wonderful place for livestock.
 \v 2 So the descendants of Gad and Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the community. They said,
-\v 3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
+\v 3 "This is a list of places we have surveyed: Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon.
  
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-\v 4 the lands that Yahweh attacked before the community of Israel, are good places for livestock. We, your servants, have a lot of livestock."
+\v 4 These are the lands that Yahweh attacked before the community of Israel, and they are good places for livestock. We, your servants, have a lot of livestock."
 \v 5 They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to us, your servants, as a possession. Do not make us cross over the Jordan."
  
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 \v 17 However, we ourselves will be ready and armed to go with Israel's army until we have led them into their place. But our families will live in the fortified cities because of the other people who still live in this land.
  
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-\v 18 We will not return to our houses until the people of Israel, every man, has obtained his inheritance.
+\v 18 We will not return to our houses until every one of the people of Israel has obtained his inheritance.
 \v 19 We will not inherit the land with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance is here on the east side of the Jordan."
  
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 \v 5 You must measure two thousand cubits from outside the city on the east side, and two thousand cubits to the south side, two thousand cubits to the west side, and two thousand cubits to the north side. This will be the pasturelands for their cities. The cities will be in the center. 
  
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-\v 6 Six of the cities that you will give to Levites must serve as cities of refuge. You must provide these as places to which accused murderers can flee. Also provide forty-two other cities.
+\v 6 Six of the cities that you will give to Levites must serve as cities of refuge. You must provide these as places to which a person who has killed someone can flee. Also provide forty-two other cities.
 \v 7 The cities that you give to the Levites will total forty-eight. You must give their pasturelands with them. 
  
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 \v 9 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
 \v 10 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
-\v 11 then you must choose cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that any man who kills someone unintentionally may flee to them.
+\v 11 then you must choose cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, a place to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
  
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 \v 22 But if an accused man suddenly hits a victim without premeditated hate or throws something that hits the victim without lying in wait
-\v 23 or if he throws a stone that could kill a victim without seeing the victim, then the accused was not the victim's enemy; he was not trying to hurt the victim. But if the victim dies anyway, 
+\v 23 or if he throws a stone that could kill a victim without seeing the victim, then the accused was not the victim's enemy; he was not trying to hurt the victim. But this is what to do if the victim dies anyway.
  
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-\v 24 in that case, the community must judge between the accused and the blood avenger on the basis of these rules.
+\v 24 In that case, the community must judge between the accused and the blood avenger on the basis of these rules.
 \v 25 The community must rescue the accused from the blood avenger's power. The community must return the accused to the city of refuge to which he had originally fled. He must live there until the death of the current high priest, the one who was anointed with the holy oil.
  
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-\v 1 Then the leaders of their ancestor's families in the clan founded by Gilead son of Machir (who was Manasseh's son), who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, they came and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families of the people of Israel.
+\v 1 Then the leaders of the ancestors' families of the clan of Gilead son of Machir (who was Manasseh's son), who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families of the people of Israel.
 \v 2 They said, "Yahweh commanded you, our master, to give a share of land by lot to the people of Israel. You were commanded by Yahweh to give the share of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
  
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 \v 3 But if his daughters marry men in another tribe of the people of Israel, then their share of land will be removed from our ancestor's share. It will be added to the share of the tribes that they join. In that case, it will be removed from the assigned share of our inheritance. 
-\v 4 In that case, when the Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their share will be joined to the share of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their share will be taken away from the share of our ancestors' tribe."
+\v 4 In that case, when the year of Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their share will be joined to the share of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their share will be taken away from the share of our ancestors' tribe."
  
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 \v 26 Yet you refused to attack, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
-\v 27 You complained in your tents and said, "It is because Yahweh hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to defeat us by the power of the Amorites, and to destroy us.
+\v 27 You complained in your tents and said, "It is because Yahweh hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
 \v 28 Where can we go now? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'Those people are bigger and taller than we are; their cities are large and are fortified up to the heavens; moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"
 
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-\v 9 Only pay attention and carefully guard yourself, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not leave your heart for all the days of your life. Instead, make them known to your children and your children's children—
-\v 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'
+\v 9 Only pay attention and carefully guard yourself, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not leave your heart for all the days of your life. Instead, make them known to your children and your children's children. 
+\v 10 On the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'
  
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-\v 15 So take great heed to yourselves, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb out of the middle of the fire.
-\v 16 Be careful that you do not corrupt yourselves and make a carved figure in the likeness of any creature, the form of a male or a female person,
+\v 15 So take great heed to yourselves—for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb out of the middle of the fire—
+\v 16 that you do not corrupt yourselves and make a carved figure in the likeness of any creature, the form of a male or a female person,
 \v 17 or the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,
 \v 18 or the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
 
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-\v 19 Be careful when you lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—be careful that you are not drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things that Yahweh your God has assigned them there for all the people under the whole sky.
+\v 19 You shall not lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—and be drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things of which Yahweh your God has given a share all the peoples under the whole sky.
 \v 20 But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of his own inheritance, as you are today.
 
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 \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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-\v 34 Or has God ever attempted to go and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a display of great power, and by great terrors, as everything that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
+\v 34 Or has God ever attempted to go and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as everything that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  
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 \v 35 To you these things were shown, so that you might know that Yahweh is God, and that there is no one else besides him.

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 \v 8 You will not make for yourself a carved figure nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below.
  
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-\v 9 You will not bow down to them or serve them, for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God. I punish the
+\v 9 You will not bow down to them or serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God. I punish the
 ancestors' wickedness by bringing punishment on the children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
 \v 10 and showing covenant faithfulness to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.
  
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 \v 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. On it you will not do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor any foreigner who is within your gates. This is so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
  
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-\v 15 You will call to mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by a display of power. Therefore Yahweh your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
+\v 15 You will call to mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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-\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, and drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
+\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, and drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you.
  
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-\v 2 and when Yahweh your God gives you victory over them when you meet them in battle, you must attack them, then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
+\v 2 And when Yahweh your God gives you victory over them when you meet them in battle, you must attack them, then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
 \v 3 Neither will you arrange any marriages with them; you will not give your daughters to their sons, and you will not take their daughters for your sons.
  
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-\v 6 For you are a nation that is set apart for Yahweh your God. He has chosen you to be a people for him to possess, more than all the other peoples that are on the face of the earth.
+\v 6 For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. He has chosen you to be a people for him to possess, more than all the other peoples that are on the face of the earth.
  
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 \v 7 Yahweh did not set his love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people—for you were the fewest of all peoples—
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 \v 17 If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?'—
 \v 18 do not be afraid of them; you will call to mind what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
-\v 19 the great sufferings that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the display of power by which Yahweh your God brought you out. Yahweh your God will do the same to all the peoples whom you fear.
+\v 19 the great sufferings that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out. Yahweh your God will do the same to all the peoples whom you fear.
 
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 \v 20 Moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left and who hide themselves from you perish from your presence.
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 \v 24 He will put their kings under your power, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them. 
 
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-\v 25 You will burn the carved figures of their god; do not desire the silver or the gold that covers them so much that you want to take it for yourself, and you become trapped by it; for it is detestable to Yahweh your God.
-\v 26 You will not bring any disgusting thing into your house and start to worship it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.
+\v 25 You will burn the carved figures of their gods—do not covet the silver or the gold that covers them and take it for yourself, because if you do, you will become trapped by it—for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
+\v 26 You will not bring any abomination into your house and start to worship it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.
 
 
 

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 \v 2 You will call to mind all the ways that Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that he might humble you, that he might test you to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not.
  
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-\v 3 He humbled you, and made you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you had not known, nor which your ancestors had known, nor your fathers. He did that to make you know that people do not live by bread only, but rather, it is by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh that people live.
+\v 3 He humbled you, and made you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you had not known and which your fathers had not known. He did that to make you know that it is not by bread alone that people live; rather, it is by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh that people live.
  
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-\v 4 Your clothing did not grow old on you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years.
-\v 5 You will think about in your heart, how, as a man corrects his son, so Yahweh your God corrects you.
+\v 4 Your clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years.
+\v 5 You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
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 \v 11 Be careful that you do not forget Yahweh your God, and that you do not neglect his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am commanding you today.
-\v 12 So that it will not happen that, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them,
+\v 12 Be careful that, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them.
  
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-\v 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and when your silver and your gold increase, and when all that you have multiplies—
-\v 14 that then your heart might become lifted up, and you might forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
+\v 13 And be careful when your herds and your flocks multiply, and when your silver and your gold increase, and when all that you have multiplies,
+\v 14 that then your heart become lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God—who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
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-\v 15 You might forget him who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and through thirsty ground where there was no water; Yahweh, who brought water out of the rock of flint for you;
-\v 16 Yahweh, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had not known, so that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good in the end;
-\v 17 otherwise, you might say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
+\v 15 Do not forget him who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and through thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought water out of the rock of flint for you,
+\v 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had not known, so that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good in the end—
+\v 17 and you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
  
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05-DEU/09.usfm

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-\v 1 Hear, Israel; you are to about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, and cities that are great and fortified up to heaven,
+\v 1 Hear, Israel; you are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, and cities that are great and fortified up to heaven,
 \v 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard people say, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'
  
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-\v 3 Know therefore today, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you like a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you; so will you drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has said to you.
+\v 3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you like a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so will you drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has said to you.
  
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-\v 4 Do not say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, 'It was because of my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,' for it was because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is driving them out from before you.
+\v 4 Do not say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, 'It was because of my righteousness that Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,' for it was because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is driving them out from before you.
  
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-\v 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them out from before you, and so that he may make come true the word that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
+\v 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them out from before you, and so that he may make come true the word that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  
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 \v 11 It happened at the end of those forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
-\v 12 Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people that you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.'
+\v 12 Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.'
  
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-\v 16 I looked, and, see, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had molded for yourselves a calf. You had turned away from the way that Yahweh had commanded you.
+\v 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had molded for yourselves a calf. You had quickly turned aside out of the path that Yahweh had commanded you.
  
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 \v 22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
-\v 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea and said, 'Go up and possess the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe or listen to his voice.
+\v 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea and said, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe or listen to his voice.
 \v 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
  
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 \v 25 So I lay facedown before Yahweh those forty days and forty nights, because he had said that he would destroy you.
-\v 26 I prayed to Yahweh and said, 'O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people or your inheritance that you have rescued through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
+\v 26 I prayed to Yahweh and said, 'O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people or your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  
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-\v 27 Call to mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
+\v 27 Call to mind your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
 \v 28 so that the land from where you brought us should say, "Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land that he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness."
-\v 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'
+\v 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'
 
 
 

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-\v 1 At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Carve two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain, and make a chest of wood.
-\v 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you will put them in the chest.'
+\v 1 At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Carve two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
+\v 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you will put them in the ark.'
 
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-\v 3 So I made a chest of acacia wood, and I carved two tablets of stone like the first, and I went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
-\v 4 He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; then Yahweh gave them to me.
+\v 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and I carved two tablets of stone like the first, and I went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
+\v 4 He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly; then Yahweh gave them to me.
  
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-\v 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the chest that I had made; there they are, as Yahweh commanded me."
+\v 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; there they are, as Yahweh commanded me."
  
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 \v 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, except to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to worship Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
-\v 13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, that I am commanding you today for your own good?
+\v 13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today for your own good?
 
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-\v 14 See, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is in them.
+\v 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is in them.
 \v 15 Only Yahweh took pleasure in your fathers so as to love them, and he chose you, their descendants, after them, more than any of the other peoples, as he does today.
 
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-\v 2 Notice that I am not speaking to your children, who have not known or seen the punishment of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, or the display of his power,
+\v 2 Notice that I am not speaking to your children, who have not known nor have they seen the punishment of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, or his outstretched arm,
 \v 3 the signs and deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to all his land.
  
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 \v 20 You will write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates,
-\v 21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land that Yahweh swore to your fathers that he would give them, be as many days as the heavens are high above the earth.
+\v 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give them, for as long as the heavens are above the earth. 
  
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 \v 1 These are the statutes and the decrees that you will keep in the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
-\v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree;
+\v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  
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-\v 3 and you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
+\v 3 And you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
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 \v 30 pay attention to yourself that you are not trapped into following them, after they are destroyed from before you—trapped into investigating their gods, into asking, 'How do these nations worship their gods? I will do the same.'
 
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-\v 31 You will not do that in respect to Yahweh your God, for everything that is disgusting to Yahweh, things that he hates—they have done these with their gods; they even burn their sons and their daughters in fire for their gods.
+\v 31 You will not do that in respect to Yahweh your God, for everything that is an abomination to Yahweh, things that he hates—they have done these with their gods; they even burn their sons and their daughters in fire for their gods.
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 \v 32 Whatever I command you, observe it. Do not add to it or take away from it.
  

05-DEU/13.usfm

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 \v 12 If you hear anyone say about one of your cities, that Yahweh your God gives you to live in:
 \v 13 Some wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city and said, 'Let us go and worship other gods that you have not known.'
-\v 14 Then you will examine the evidence, make search, and investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and certain that such a detestable thing has been done among you— 
+\v 14 Then you will examine the evidence, make search, and investigate it thoroughly. When you discover that it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you, then you will take action.  
 
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-\v 15 then you will surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, completely destroy it and all the people who are in it, along with its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
+\v 15 You will surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, completely destroy it and all the people who are in it, along with its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
 \v 16 You will gather all the spoil from it into the middle of its street and will burn the city, as well as all its spoil—for Yahweh your God. The city will be a heap of ruins forever; it must never be built again.
  
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05-DEU/14.usfm

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 \v 1 You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.
-\v 2 For you are a nation that is set apart for Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.
+\v 2 For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.
 
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-\v 3 You must not eat any disgusting thing.
+\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 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
 
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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 13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon,
+\v 13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.
  
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-\v 14 any kind of raven,
+\v 14 You must not eat any kind of raven,
 \v 15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
 \v 16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
-\v 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
+\v 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.
  
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-\v 18 and the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
+\v 18 You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
 \v 19 All winged, swarming things are unclean for you; they must not be eaten.
 \v 20 You may eat all clean flying things.
  
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-\v 21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart for Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
+\v 21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
  
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-\v 19 All the firstborn males in your herd and your flock you must dedicate to Yahweh your God; you will do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
+\v 19 All the firstborn males in your herd and your flock you must set apart to Yahweh your God. You will do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
 \v 20 You must eat the firstborn before Yahweh your God year by year in the place that Yahweh will choose, you and your household.
 \v 21 If it has any blemish—for example, if it is lame or blind, or has any blemish whatever—you must not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
  

05-DEU/16.usfm

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 \v 18 You must make judges and officers within all your city gates that Yahweh your God is giving you; they will be taken from each of your tribes, and they must judge the people with righteous judgment.
-\v 19 You must not force justice; you must not show partiality nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
+\v 19 You must not take justice away by force; you must not show partiality nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
 \v 20 You must follow after justice, after justice alone, so that you may live and inherit the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
 
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05-DEU/17.usfm

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-\v 1 You must not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is any blemish or anything bad, for that would be disgusting to Yahweh your God.
+\v 1 You must not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is any blemish or anything bad, for that would be an abomination to Yahweh your God.
 
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 \v 2 If there is found among you, within any of your city gates that Yahweh your God is giving you, any man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God and transgresses his covenant—
 \v 3 anyone who has gone and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, either the sun, the moon, or any of the host of heaven—nothing that I have commanded,
-\v 4 and if you are told about this, or if you have heard of it—then you must make a careful investigation. If it is true and certain that such a detestable thing has been done in Israel— 
+\v 4 and if you are told about this, or if you have heard of it—then you must make a careful investigation. If it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel— 
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 \v 5 —then you must bring that man or woman, who has done this evil thing, to your city gates, that very man or woman, and you must stone that person to death. 
 \v 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, will he who must die be put to death; but at the mouth of only one witness he must not be put to death.

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-\v 9 When you have come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, you must not learn to observe the disgusting things of those nations.
-\v 10 There must not be found among you any one who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, anyone who uses divination, anyone who practices augury, or any enchanter, or any sorcerer,
+\v 9 When you have come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, you must not learn to observe the abominations of those nations.
+\v 10 There must not be found among you any one who puts his son or his daughter into the fire, anyone who uses divination, anyone who practices augury, or any enchanter, or any sorcerer,
 \v 11 any charmer, anyone who talks with the dead, or anyone who talks with spirits.
  
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-\v 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to Yahweh; it is because of these detestable things that Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you.
+\v 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; it is because of these abominations that Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you.
 \v 13 You must be blameless before Yahweh your God.
 \v 14 For these nations that you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and divination; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.
  
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 \v 20 But the prophet who speaks a word arrogantly in my name, a word that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that very prophet must die.'
-\v 21 If you say in your heart, 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'—
+\v 21 This is what you must say in your heart: 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'
  
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-\v 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.
+\v 22 You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.
  
 
 

05-DEU/20.usfm

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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 18 Do this so that they do not teach you to act in any of their disgusting ways, as they have done with their gods. If you do, you will sin against Yahweh your God. 
+\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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05-DEU/21.usfm

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-\v 10 When you go out to do battle against your enemies and Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, then you must take them away as captives.
-\v 11 If you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire for her and wish to take her for yourself as a wife,
-\v 12 then you will bring her home to your house, she will shave her head and cut her nails.
+\v 10 When you go out to do battle against your enemies and Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, and you take them away as captives,
+\v 11 if you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire for her and wish to take her for yourself as a wife,
+\v 12 then you will bring her home to your house; she will shave her head and cut her nails.
 
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-\v 13 She will take off the clothes she was wearing when she was taken captive, and she will remain in your house and mourn for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may sleep with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
+\v 13 Then she will take off the clothes she was wearing when she was taken captive and she will remain in your house and mourn for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may sleep with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
 \v 14 But if you take no delight in her, then you may let her go where she wishes. But you must not sell her at all for money, and you must not treat her like a slave, because you have humiliated her.
 
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-\v 1 You must not watch your fellow Israelite's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them; you must surely bring it back to him.
+\v 1 You must not watch your fellow Israelite's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them; you must surely bring them back to him.
 \v 2 If your fellow Israelite is not near to you, or if you do not know him, then you must bring the animal home to your house, and it must be with you until he looks for it, and then you must restore it to him.
 
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-\v 3 You must do the same with his donkey; you must do the same with his garment; you must do the same with every lost thing of your fellow Israelite's, anything that he has lost and you have found; you may not hide yourself.
+\v 3 You must do the same with his donkey; you must do the same with his garment; you must do the same with every lost thing of your fellow Israelite's, anything that he has lost and you have found; you must not hide yourself.
 \v 4 You must not see your fellow Israelite's donkey or his ox fallen down in the road and hide yourself from them; you must surely help him to lift it up again.
 
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-\v 5 A woman must not wear what pertains to a man, and neither must a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is something disgusting to Yahweh your God.
+\v 5 A woman must not wear what pertains to a man, and neither must a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 8 When you build a new house, then you must make a railing for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if anyone falls from there. 
+\v 8 When you build a new house, then you must make a railing for your roof so that you do not bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there. 
 
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-\v 22 If a man is found sleeping with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was sleeping with the woman, and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from among you.
+\v 22 If a man is found sleeping with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was sleeping with the woman and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from among you.
 
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