נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה and שֹֽׁמְרֵי֙ מִשְׁמֶ֨רֶת֙

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 \v 52 When the people of Israel set up their tents, each man must do so near the banner that belongs to his armed group.
 
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-\v 53 However, the Levites must set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant decrees so that my anger does not come upon the people of Israel. The Levites must keep watch over the tabernacle of the covenant decrees."
+\v 53 However, the Levites must set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant decrees so that my anger does not come upon the people of Israel. The Levites must perform the duties of the tabernacle of the covenant decrees."
 \v 54 The people of Israel did all these things. They did everything that Yahweh commanded through Moses.
 
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 \v 27 These clans come from Kohath: the clan of the Amramites, the clan of the Izharites, the clan of the Hebronites, and the clan of the Uzzielites. These clans belong to the Kohathites.
-\v 28 8,600 males have been counted aged one month old and older to take care of the sanctuary.
+\v 28 8,600 males have been counted aged one month old and older to perform the duties of the sanctuary.
 \v 29 The Kohath clans must camp on the south side of the tabernacle.
 
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 \v 30 Elizaphan son of Uzziel must lead the ancestral households of the Kohathites.
 \v 31 They must care for the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the holy things that are used in their service, the curtain, and all the work around it.
-\v 32 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest must lead the men who lead the Levites. He must supervise the men who care for the holy place.
+\v 32 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest must lead the men who lead the Levites. He must supervise the men who perform the duties of the holy place.
 
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-\v 38 Moses and Aaron and his sons must camp on the east side of the tabernacle, in front of the tent of meeting, toward the sunrise. They are responsible for the fulfillment of the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the people of Israel. Any foreigner who approaches the sanctuary must be put to death.
+\v 38 Moses and Aaron and his sons must camp on the east side of the tabernacle, in front of the tent of meeting, toward the sunrise. They are responsible for performing the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the people of Israel. Any foreigner who approaches the sanctuary must be put to death.
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 \v 39 Moses and Aaron counted all the males in the clans of Levi who were aged one month old and older, just as Yahweh commanded. They counted twenty-two thousand men.
 
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 \v 30 from thirty years old and older up to fifty years old. Count everyone who is going to join the company and serve in the tent of meeting.
 
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-\v 31 This is their responsibility and their work in all their service for the tent of meeting. They must care for the framing of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, and sockets,
+\v 31 This is their responsibility and their burden in all their service for the tent of meeting. They must care for the framing of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, and sockets,
 \v 32 along with the posts of the courtyard around the tabernacle, their sockets, pegs, and their ropes, with all their hardware. List by name the articles they must carry.
 
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 \v 25 They must stop serving in this way at the age of fifty years. At that age they must not serve any longer.
-\v 26 They may help their brothers who continue to work at the tent of meeting, but they must serve no more. You must direct the Levites in all these matters."
+\v 26 They may help their brothers who continue to work at the tent of meeting, to perform their duties, but they must serve no more. This is how you must deal with the Levites in all their responsibilities."
 
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 \v 12 They must not leave any of it until the morning, or break any of its bones. They must follow all the regulations for the Passover.
 
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-\v 13 But any person who is clean and is not on a journey, but who fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not offer the sacrifice that Yahweh requires at the fixed time of year. That man must carry his sin.
-\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover to Yahweh, he must keep it according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule. You must have one statute both for the foreigner and for the one who was born in the land."
+\v 13 But any person who is clean and is not on a journey, but who fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not bring the offering that Yahweh requires at the fixed time of year. That man must carry his sin.
+\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover to Yahweh, he must keep it according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule. You must have one statute both for the sojourner and for the one who was born in the land."
 
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 \v 3 The priests must blow the trumpets to call all the community together in front of you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 \v 4 If the priests blow only one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, must gather to you.
-\v 5 When you blow a loud signal, the camps on the east side must begin their journey.
+\v 5 When you blow a loud signal, the tribes camped on the east side must begin their journey.
 
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-\v 6 When you blow a loud signal the second time, the camps on the south side must begin their journey. They must blow a loud signal for their journeys.
+\v 6 When you blow a loud signal the second time, the tribes camped on the south side must begin their journey. They must blow a loud signal for their journeys.
 \v 7 When the community gathers together, blow the trumpets, but not loudly.
-\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.
+\v 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets. This will always be an ordinance 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.
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 \v 29 Moses spoke to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite. Reuel was the father of Moses's wife. Moses spoke to Hobab and said, "We are traveling to a place that Yahweh described. Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will do you good. Yahweh has promised to do good for Israel."
-\v 30 But Hobab said to Moses, "I will not go with you. I will go to my own land and my own people."
+\v 30 But Hobab said to Moses, "I will not go with you. I will go to my own land and my own relatives."
 
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 \v 31 Then Moses replied, "Please do not leave us. You know how to camp in the wilderness. You must watch out for us.
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 \v 33 They journeyed from the mountain of Yahweh for three days. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them for three days to find a place for them to rest.
-\v 34 Yahweh's cloud was over them by daylight as they journeyed.
+\v 34 Yahweh's cloud was over them in the daytime as they journeyed.
 
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 \v 7 Manna was like coriander seed. It looked like resin.
-\v 8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it in mills, beat it in mortars, boiled it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like fresh olive oil.
+\v 8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it in mills, beat it in mortars, boiled it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like a delicacy baked with olive oil.
 
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 \v 9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna also fell.
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 \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?"'"
 
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-\v 21 Then Moses said, "I am with 600,000 people, and you have said, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.'
+\v 21 Then Moses said, "The people I am with are 600,000 footmen, and you have said, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.'
 \v 22 Should we kill flocks and herds to satisfy them? Should we catch all the fish in the sea to satisfy them?"
 \v 23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Is my hand short? Now you will see whether or not my word is true."
 
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 \v 32 The people were busy gathering quail all that day, all the night, and all the next day. No one gathered less than ten homers of quail. They shared the quail all through the camp.
 
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-\v 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, while they were chewing it, Yahweh became angry at them. He attacked the people with a very great disease.
+\v 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, while they were chewing it, the anger of Yahweh was kindled at them. He attacked the people with a very great disease.
 \v 34 That place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat.
 \v 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth, where they stayed.
 
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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 man, 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 this report about you will 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.'
 
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-\v 17 Now, I beg you, use your great power. For you have said,
+\v 17 Now, I beg you, may the power of my Lord be great. For you have said,
 \v 18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'
-\v 19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's sin because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now."
+\v 19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's iniquity because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now."
 
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 \v 27 "How long must I tolerate this evil community that criticizes me? I have heard the complaining of the people of Israel against me.
 
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-\v 28 Say to them, 'As I live,' says Yahweh, 'as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
+\v 28 Say to them, 'As I live—this is Yahweh's declaration—as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
 \v 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all you who complained against me, you who were counted in the census, the whole number of the people from twenty years old and upward.
 \v 30 You will certainly not go into the land that I promised to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
 
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 \v 34 According to the number of the days during which you examined the land, forty days, you will bear the punishment for your sins for forty years, one year for every day, and you will know my opposition.
-\v 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will certainly do this to all this evil community that is gathered together against me. They will be completely cut off, and here they will die.'"
+\v 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will certainly do this to all this evil community that is gathered together against me. They will be completely cut off in this wilderness, and here they will die.'"
 
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 \v 43 The Amalekites and Canaanites are there, and you will die by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh. So he will not be with you."
 
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-\v 44 But they presumed to go up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left the camp.
-\v 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and defeated them all the way to Hormah.
+\v 44 But they arrogantly went up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left the camp.
+\v 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and beat them down all the way to Hormah.
 
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 \v 13 All who are native-born must do these things in this way, when anyone brings an offering made by fire, to produce an aroma that is pleasing to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 14 If a foreigner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people's generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
-\v 15 There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people's generations. As you are, so also must be the traveler staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
+\v 14 If a sojourner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people's generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
+\v 15 There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people's generations. As you are, so also must be the sojourner staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
 \v 16 The same law and decree must apply to you and to the foreigner who is staying with you.'"
 
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 \v 27 If a person sins unintentionally, then he must offer a female goat a year old as a sin offering.
-\v 28 The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.
+\v 28 The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who goes astray and sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.
 \v 29 You must have the same law for the one who does anything unintentionally, the same law for the one who is native born among the people of Israel and for the foreigners who are staying among them.
 
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-\v 30 But the person who does anything in defiance, whether he is native born or a foreigner, blasphemes me. That person must be cut off from among his people.
-\v 31 Because he has despised my word and has broken my commandment, that person must be cut off completely. His sin will be on him.'"
+\v 30 But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native born or a foreigner, blasphemes me. That person must be cut off from among his people.
+\v 31 Because he has despised my word and has broken my commandment, that person must be cut off completely. His iniquity will be on him.'"
 
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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, 250 leaders of the community who were well-known members in the community.
+\v 2 They rose up against Moses, along with other men from the people of Israel, 250 leaders of the community who were men of reputation in the 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 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.
+\v 5 He spoke to Korah and all his companions, "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
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 \v 8 Again, Moses said to Korah, "Now listen, you descendants of Levi:
 \v 9 is it a small thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do work in Yahweh's tabernacle, and to stand before the community to serve them?
 \v 10 He has brought you near, and all your kinfolk, the descendants of Levi, with you, yet you are seeking the priesthood also!
-\v 11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled against Yahweh. Who is Aaron that you grumble against him?"
+\v 11 Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh. Who is Aaron that you grumble against him?"
 
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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 and they, and Aaron.
+\v 16 Then Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow you and all your companions 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, 250 censers. You and Aaron, also, must each bring your censer."
 
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 \v 2 As for your fellow members of the tribe of Levi, your ancestors' tribe, you must bring them with you so they may join you and help you when you and your sons serve in front of the tent of the covenant decrees.
 
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-\v 3 They must serve you and the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the holy place or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die.
-\v 4 They must join you and take care of the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you.
-\v 5 You must take responsibility for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again.
+\v 3 They must perform your duties and the duties of the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the holy place or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die.
+\v 4 They must join you and perform the duties connected with the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you.
+\v 5 You must perform the duties for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again.
 
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 \v 6 Look, I myself have chosen your fellow members of the Levites from among the descendants of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to me to do the work connected to the tent of meeting.
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 \v 14 Every devoted thing in Israel will be yours.
-\v 15 Every first issue of the womb, all the firstborn which the people offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the people must certainly redeem every firstborn son, and they must redeem the firstborn male of unclean animals.
+\v 15 Every first issue of the womb, all the firstborn that the people offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the people must certainly redeem every firstborn son, and they must redeem the firstborn male of unclean animals.
 \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 29 Take this tax from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest for a contribution to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 30 Also from the people of Israel's half, you must take one out of every fifty—from the persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats. Give these to the Levites who take care of my tabernacle."
+\v 30 Also from the people of Israel's half, you must take one out of every fifty—from the persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats. Give these to the Levites who perform the duties of my tabernacle."
 \v 31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 
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 \v 46 and sixteen thousand women.
 
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-\v 47 From the people of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of people and animals. He gave them to the Levites who kept care of Yahweh's tabernacle, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
+\v 47 From the people of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of people and animals. He gave them to the Levites who performed the duties of Yahweh's tabernacle, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
 
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 \v 25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Pick him up and throw him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. Think about how when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh placed this prophecy against him:
-\v 26 'Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares Yahweh—and I will surely make you pay for it on this field—declares Yahweh. Now then, pick him up and throw him on this field, according to the word of Yahweh."
+\v 26 'Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—this is Yahweh's declaration—and I will surely make you pay for it on this field—this is Yahweh's declaration. Now then, pick him up and throw him on this field, according to the word of Yahweh."
 
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 \q1 so they will not rise up and possess the earth and fill the whole world with cities.
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-\v 22 "I will rise up against them"—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
-\q1 "I will cut off from Babylon name, descendant, and posterity"—this is Yahweh's declaration.
+\v 22 "I will rise up against them—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
+\q1 I will cut off from Babylon name, descendant, and posterity—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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-\v 23 "I will also make her into a possession of owls, and into pools of water,
-\q1 and I will sweep her with the broom of destruction"—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 23 I will also make her into a possession of owls, and into pools of water,
+\q1 and I will sweep her with the broom of destruction—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts."
 
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 \v 25 I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot.
 \q1 Then his yoke will be lifted from off them and his burden from off their shoulder."
-\q1 Then his yoke will be lifted from off them and his burden from off their shoulder."
 
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-\v 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," this is Yahweh's declaration.
-\q1 "They make plans, but not from me; they make alliances with other nations,
+\v 1 "Woe to the rebellious children—this is Yahweh's declaration—
+\q1 They make plans, but not from me; they make alliances with other nations,
 \q1 but they were not directed by my Spirit, so they add sin to sin.
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 \v 2 They set out to go down into Egypt, but have not asked for my direction.
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 \q1 He will flee from the sword, and his young men will be forced to do hard labor.
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 \v 9 They will lose all confidence because of terror, and his princes will be afraid at the sight of Yahweh's battle flag—
-\q1 this is Yahweh's declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose firepot is in Jerusalem."
+\q1 this is the declaration of Yahweh—
+\q1 whose fire is in Zion and whose firepot is in Jerusalem."
 
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 \v 14 Do not fear, Jacob you worm, and you men of Israel;
-\q1 I will help you—this is Yahweh's declaration, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
+\q1 I will help you—this is the declaration of Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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 \v 15 Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and two-edged;
 \q1 you will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff.
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-\v 10 You are my witnesses," declares Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen,
+\v 10 You are my witnesses—this is Yahweh's declaration—and my servant whom I have chosen,
 \q1 so that you may know and believe in me, and understand that I am he.
 \q1 Before me there was no god formed, and there will be none after me.
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 \v 12 I have declared, saved, and proclaimed, and there is no other god among you.
-\q1 You are my witnesses," declares Yahweh, "I am God.
+\q1 You are my witnesses—this is Yahweh's declaration—I am God.
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 \v 13 From this day on I am he,
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 \v 14 Yahweh said to me, "Disaster will be opened up out of the north on all who live in this land.
 
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-\v 15 For I am calling all the tribes of the northern kingdoms, declares Yahweh. They will come, and everyone will set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all the walls that surround it, and against all the cities of Judah.
+\v 15 For I am calling all the tribes of the northern kingdoms—this is Yahweh's declaration. They will come, and everyone will set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all the walls that surround it, and against all the cities of Judah.
 \v 16 I will pronounce sentence against them for all their evil in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods, and in worshiping what they made with their own hands.
 
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