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 \v 2 You must bring the animal to the entrance to the sacred tent. You must lay your hands on its head. Then you must slaughter it and catch some of its blood in a bowl. Then one of Aaron's sons, one of the priests, will sprinkle the blood against all sides of the altar.
 
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-\v 3 From that offering you must bring to Yahweh a sacrifice that a priest will burn in the fire. That will consist of all the fat that covers the inner parts of the animal, or which is attached to them—
+\v 3 From that offering you must bring to Yahweh a sacrifice that a priest will burn in the fire. That will consist of all the fat that covers the inner parts of the animal, or that is attached to them—
 \v 4 the kidneys and the fat that is attached to them near the lower back muscle, and the fat that covers the liver.
 \v 5 Then one of the priests will burn those things on the altar, along with the other parts of the animal that he will completely burn as an offering to Yahweh. And the good odor will be pleasing to Yahweh.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
-\v 2 'You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by touching any dead body. You are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as your mother, father, son, daughter or your brother.
+\v 2 'You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by touching any dead body. You are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as your mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.
 \v 3 You may also touch the corpse of a sister if she is not married and has been living in your house, because she has no husband to bury her.
 
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-\v 10 No one who does not belong to a priest's family is permitted to eat from the sacred offering. No one who is visiting the priest, or one that has been hired by the priest, none of them is permitted to eat it.
+\v 10 No one who does not belong to a priest's family is permitted to eat from the sacred offering. No one who is visiting the priest or who has been hired by the priest is permitted to eat it.
 \v 11 But if a priest buys a slave, or if a slave is born in his house, that slave is permitted to eat such food.
 
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 \v 17 Yahweh also said to Moses,
-\v 18 "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelite people and tell them that I say this to them, 'If any of you Israelites or foreigners who live in Israel brings to me an animal that will be completely burned on the altar, either as a result of a solemn promise that you made to me or to be an offering that is given voluntarily,
+\v 18 "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelite people and tell them that I say this to them: 'If any of you Israelites or foreigners who live in Israel brings to me an animal that will be completely burned on the altar, either as a result of a solemn promise that you made to me or to be an offering that is given voluntarily,
 \v 19 you must bring from your cattle or sheep or goats an animal that has no defects, in order that I may accept it.
 
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 \v 4 There are festivals that I am establishing for you. These will be sacred days when you must gather together to worship me.
 \v 5 The first festival is the Passover. That festival will begin at twilight on the appointed day each spring and end the following day.
-\v 6 The next day will begin the Festival of Bread with no Yeast. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.
+\v 6 The next day will begin the Festival of Bread with No Yeast. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.
 
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 \v 7 On the first day of that festival, all of you must stop your regular work and gather together to worship me.
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 \v 11 On the day after the next Sabbath day, the priest will lift it up high to dedicate it to me, in order that I may accept it as your gift.
 
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-\v 12 On that same day you must sacrifice to me a one year old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it on the altar.
+\v 12 On that same day you must sacrifice to me a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it on the altar.
 \v 13 You must also burn a flour offering. That offering must consist of four and one-half liters of good flour, ground grain, mixed with olive oil. The smell of those things burning will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering.
 \v 14 Do not eat any bread or any roasted or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live.
 
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 \v 17 From your homes, bring two loaves of bread to the priest. He will lift them up high to dedicate them as an offering to me. Those loaves must be baked from four and one-half liters of good flour that has yeast mixed with it. That bread will be an offering to me from the first wheat that you harvest each year.
-\v 18 Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one year old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned on the altar. All those offerings, with the flour offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell of all those things burning will be very pleasing to me.
+\v 18 Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one-year-old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned on the altar. All those offerings, with the flour offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell of all those things burning will be very pleasing to me.
 
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-\v 19 Then you must also kill one male goat as an offering for your sins, and two one year old male lambs to be an offering for you to promise friendship with me.
+\v 19 Then you must also kill one male goat as an offering for your sins, and two one-year-old male lambs to be an offering for you to promise friendship with me.
 \v 20 The priest will lift up these offerings high to dedicate them to me. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are special to me; but they are for the priest.
 \v 21 On that day, you must stop your regular work and gather to worship me. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live.
 
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-\v 23 Yahweh also told Moses
-\v 24 to give these instructions to the Israelite people: "Each year in the seventh month, on the first day of that month, all of you must celebrate that day, on which you will completely rest. You must not do any work on that day. When the priests blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together as a holy assembly, to worship me.
+\v 23 Yahweh also told Moses,
+\v 24 "Give these instructions to the Israelite people: Each year in the seventh month, on the first day of that month, all of you must celebrate that day, on which you will completely rest. You must not do any work on that day. When the priests blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together as a holy assembly, to worship me.
 \v 25 All of you must not do any regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned on the altar."
 
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-\v 5 Also, each week you must take some fine flour and bake twelve very big loaves of bread, using four and one-half liters of flour for each loaf.
+\v 5 Also, each week you must take some fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using four and one-half liters of flour for each loaf.
 \v 6 Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, in my presence.
 
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 \v 21 Whoever kills another person's animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed, but the people must execute anyone who murders another person.
 
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-\v 22 You Israelites and foreigners who live among must all have that same law. I, Yahweh your God, am the one who has commanded it."
+\v 22 You Israelites and foreigners who live among you must all have that same law. I, Yahweh your God, am the one who has commanded it."
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 \v 23 Then Moses told the Israelites what they must do to the man who cursed Yahweh, so they took the man outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him. They did what Yahweh commanded Moses to tell them to do.
 
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-\v 13 In that year of celebration, the year of Jubilee, and everyone must return to their property to the original owner of it.
+\v 13 In that year of celebration, the year of Jubilee, everyone must return to their property to the original owner of it.
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 \v 14 If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israelite or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly.
 
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 \v 5 You will continue harvesting and threshing grain until it is time to harvest grapes, and you will continue to harvest grapes until it is time to start planting things in the following year. You will have all the food that you want to eat, and you will live safely in your land.
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-\v 6 If you obey all my laws, there will be peace in your country, and when you lie down to sleep. Nothing will cause you to be afraid. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in your country, and there will be no wars in your country.
+\v 6 If you obey all my laws, there will be peace in your country, and when you lie down to sleep, nothing will cause you to be afraid. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in your country, and there will be no wars in your country.
 
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 \v 7 You will pursue your enemies and kill them with your swords.
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 \v 31 If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay to the priest what it is worth plus an added one-fifth.
 
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-\v 32 And every ten domestic animals belongs to Yahweh. When a shepherd counts them as they pass under his walking stick, to decide which ones he will give to me, he must mark every tenth one as belonging to Yahweh.
+\v 32 And one of every ten domestic animals belongs to Yahweh. When a shepherd counts them as they pass under his walking stick, to decide which ones he will give to me, he must mark every tenth one as belonging to Yahweh.
 \v 33 When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones or leave the bad ones, or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he substitutes one animal for another, both animals will belong to Yahweh, and the shepherd will not be permitted to buy them back."
 
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