Slain, etc to kill (etc)

Tom Warren Issue #218

04-NUM.usfm

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 \v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Kill all the leaders of the people and hang them up before me to expose them in the daylight, so that my fierce anger may turn away from Israel."
-\v 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must slay his people who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor."
+\v 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must kill his people who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor."
 
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05-DEU.usfm

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 \v 30 You will betroth a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
-\v 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to deliver you.
+\v 31 Your ox will be killed before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to deliver you.
 
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 \v 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to other peoples; your eyes will look for them the entire day, but will fail with longing for them. There will be no strength in your hand.

07-JDG.usfm

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 \v 55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.
-\v 56 So God avenged the evil of Abimelek that he did to his father by slaying his seventy brothers.
+\v 56 So God avenged the evil of Abimelek that he did to his father by killing his seventy brothers.
 \v 57 God made all the evil of the men of Shechem turn back on their own heads and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal.
 
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09-1SA.usfm

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 \v 5 Is this not David of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying,
-\q 'Saul has slain his thousands,
+\q 'Saul has killed his thousands,
 \q and David his ten thousands'?"
 
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11-1KI.usfm

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 \v 23 God also raised up another adversary to Solomon, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
-\v 24 Rezon gathered men to himself and became captain over a marauding band when David slew the men of Zobah. Rezon's men went to Damascus and lived there, and Rezon reigned Damascus.
+\v 24 Rezon gathered men to himself and became captain over a marauding band when David killed the men of Zobah. Rezon's men went to Damascus and lived there, and Rezon reigned Damascus.
 \v 25 He was an enemy of Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the trouble that Hadad caused. Rezon abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram.
 
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15-EZR.usfm

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-\ide UTF-8
-\h Ezra
-\toc1 The Book of Ezra
-\toc2 Ezra
-\toc3 Ezra
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20-PRO.usfm

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 \v 26 She has caused many people to fall down pierced;
-\q those she has slain are numerous.
+\q those she has killed are numerous.
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 \v 27 Her house is on the paths to Sheol;
 \q they go down to the dark bedrooms of death.

23-ISA.usfm

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 \q1 he will not judge by what his eyes see, nor decide by what his ears hear.
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 \v 4 Instead, he will judge the poor with righteousness and decide fairly for the humble of the earth.
-\q1 He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
+\q1 He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
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 \v 5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his hips.
 
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 \q1 all of them lie down in honor, each one in his own tomb.
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 \v 19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abhorrent branch.
-\q1 The slain cover you like a garment, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.
+\q1 Those who were killed cover you like a garment, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.
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 \v 20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land
 \q1 and killed your people.
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 \q1 hide for a short time, until the indignation has passed by.
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 \v 21 For, look, Yahweh is about to come out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
-\q1 the earth will uncover her bloodshed, and will no longer conceal her slain.
+\q1 the earth will uncover her bloodshed, and will no longer conceal those she killed.
 
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-\v 7 Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been slain as in the slaughter of those nations that were slain by them?
+\v 7 Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been killed as their killers were killed?
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 \v 8 In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his severe breath in the day of the east wind. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa In exact measure \fqa* , many modern translations have an idea similar to \fqa By driving them away \fqa* . \f*
 

24-JER.usfm

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 \v 1 But it happened that in the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, from the royal family, and some officers of the king, came—ten men were with him—to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. They ate food together there in Mizpah.
-\v 2 But Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him rose up and attacked Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, with the sword. Ishmael slew Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had put in charge of the land.
+\v 2 But Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him rose up and attacked Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, with the sword. Ishmael killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had put in charge of the land.
 \v 3 Then Ishmael killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah in Mizpah and the Chaldean fighting men found there.
 
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25-LAM.usfm

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-\v 9 Those slain by the sword are better than those killed by hunger,
+\v 9 Those killed by the sword are better than those killed by hunger,
 \q who wasted away, pierced by the lack of any harvest from the field.
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 \v 10 The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children;

26-EZK.usfm

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 \v 7 For this is what the Lord Yahweh says: Behold, from the north I am bringing Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a great crowd of people.
-\v 8 He will slay your daughters in the field with the sword. He will set up a siege work and build a ramp against your walls and raise up shields against you.
+\v 8 He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will set up a siege work and build a ramp against your walls and raise up shields against you.
 
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 \v 9 He will place his battering rams to hit against your walls, and with his tools he will tear down your towers.
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 \v 22 Say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Behold! I am against you, Sidon! For I will be glorified in your midst so your people will know that I am Yahweh when I execute judgments within you. I will be shown to be holy in you.
 
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-\v 23 I will send out a plague in you and blood in your streets, and the slain will fall in your midst. When the sword comes against you from all around, then you will know that I am Yahweh.
+\v 23 I will send out a plague in you and blood in your streets, and those who were killed will fall in the midst of you. When the sword comes against you from all around, then you will know that I am Yahweh.
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 \v 24 Then there will no longer be pricking briars and painful thorns for the house of Israel from all those around her who despise her people, so they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh!'
 
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 \q Those who fell by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth,
 \q who brought their terrors on the land of the living and who carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit.
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-\v 25 They set a bedroll for Elam and all her multitudes in the midst of the slain; her graves surround her.
+\v 25 They have made a bed among all the multitude of Elam, all around her grave. 
 \q All of them are uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, because they had brought their terrors on the land of the living.
 \q So they carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit among all those who have been killed, those who are going down to the pit. Elam is among all those who were killed.
 

27-DAN.usfm

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 \v 12 This made the king angry and very furious, and he gave an order to destroy all the wise men in Babylon.
-\v 13 So the decree went out that all the wise men were to be slain. Because of this decree, they searched for Daniel and his friends to kill them.
+\v 13 So the decree went out to put the wise men to death, and they sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.
 
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34-NAM.usfm

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-\v 3 There are attacking horsemen,
-\q flashing swords, glittering spears,
-\q heaps of slain, great piles of bodies.
-\q There is no end to the bodies; their attackers stumble over them.
+\v 3 Horsemen charging,
+\q flashing swords and glittering spears!
+\q Piles of the dead, bodies that could not be counted—
+\q their attackers stumble over the bodies.
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 \v 4 This is happening because of the lustful actions of the beautiful prostitute, the expert in witchcraft,
 \q who sells nations through her prostitution, and peoples through her acts of witchcraft.

41-MAT.usfm

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-\v 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been mocked by the learned men, was very angry. He sent and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old and under, according to the time that he had determined exactly from the learned men.
+\v 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been mocked by the learned men, was very angry. He sent and killed all the male children that were in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old and under, according to the time that he had determined exactly from the learned men.
 
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 \v 17 Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet,

45-ACT.usfm

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 \v 41 So they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced because of the work of their hands.
 \v 42 But God turned and gave them up to worship the stars in the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,
-\q 'Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices
-\q for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?
+\q 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices 
+\q during the forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?
 
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