diff --git a/26-EZK/23.usfm b/26-EZK/23.usfm
index ea7e94ea..4e79df88 100644
--- a/26-EZK/23.usfm
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@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@
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 \v 43 Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, 'Now they will be sexually immoral with her, and she with them.'
-\v 44 They went in to her and slept with her as men go in to a prostitute. In this way they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, who were immoral women.
-\v 45 But righteous men will pass judgment and punish them as adulteresses, and they will punish them with the sentence for those who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood in on their hands.
+\v 44 They went in to her and slept with her as men go in to be with a prostitute. In this way they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, who were immoral women.
+\v 45 But righteous men will pass judgment and punish them as adulteresses, and they will punish them with the sentence for those who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
 
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 \v 46 So the Lord Yahweh says this: I will raise up a company against them and give them up to be terrorized and plundered.
diff --git a/42-MRK/04.usfm b/42-MRK/04.usfm
index f7ebf975..52b2e4cb 100644
--- a/42-MRK/04.usfm
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 \v 16 These are the ones that are sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
-\v 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a short time. Then tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, and immediately they stumble.
+\v 17 They have no root in themselves, but endure for a short time. Then tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, and immediately they stumble.
 
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-\v 18 And the others are the ones that were sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
+\v 18 The others are the ones that were sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
 \v 19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things enter in and choke the word, and it does not produce a crop.
 \v 20 Then those that were sown in the good soil are the ones who hear the word and receive it, and they produce crops—thirty, sixty, or a hundred times what was sown."
 
diff --git a/42-MRK/06.usfm b/42-MRK/06.usfm
index 1bccac94..798448b0 100644
--- a/42-MRK/06.usfm
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-\v 1 And he went out from there and came into his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
+\v 1 He went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
 \v 2 When the Sabbath came, he taught in the synagogue. Many people heard him and they were amazed. They said, "Where did he get these teachings?" "What is this wisdom that has been given to him?" "What are these miracles that he does with his hands?"
 \v 3 "Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are his sisters not here with us?" And they were offended by Jesus.
 
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-\v 4 And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household."
+\v 4 Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household."
 \v 5 He was unable to do any mighty work, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
-\v 6 Their unbelief amazed him. And he went around the villages teaching.
+\v 6 He was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went around the villages teaching.
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 \v 7 And he called the twelve and began to send them out, two by two, and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits,
diff --git a/45-ACT/15.usfm b/45-ACT/15.usfm
index 372b3903..5cf50d06 100644
--- a/45-ACT/15.usfm
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@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@
 \v 23 They wrote this: "From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings!
 
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-\v 24 Since we have heard that certain men have gone out from us, with no orders from us, and disturbed you with teachings that upset your souls.
-\v 25 So it seemed good to all of us to agree to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
+\v 24 Since we have heard that certain men have gone out from us, with no orders from us, and disturbed you with teachings that upset your souls,
+\v 25 it seemed good to all of us to agree to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
 \v 26 people who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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