Cleaning up and loving continuity

05-DEU/31.usfm

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 \v 15 Yahweh appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the tent.
 
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-\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you will sleep with your fathers; this people will rise up and act like a prostitute going after the strange gods in the land into the midst of which it is going. It will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with it.
+\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you will sleep with your fathers; this people will rise up and act like a prostitute going after the strange gods in the land into the midst of which it is going. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
 
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 \v 17 Then, on that day, my anger will be kindled against it, and I will abandon them. I will hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. Many disasters and troubles will find it, so that it will say on that day, 'Have these disasters not found me because our God is not in my midst?'

06-JOS/07.usfm

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 \v 10 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying there on your face?
-\v 11 Israel has sinned. They have violated my covenant which I commanded them. They have stolen some of the things that were set apart. They have stolen and then also hidden their sin by putting what they have taken among their own belongings.
+\v 11 Israel has sinned. They have broken my covenant which I commanded them. They have stolen some of the things that were set apart. They have stolen and then also hidden their sin by putting what they have taken among their own belongings.
 \v 12 As a result, the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turned their backs from their enemies because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will not be with you any more unless you destroy the things that should have been destroyed, but are still among you.
 
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19-PSA/089.usfm

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-\v 33 But I will not remove my covenant faithfulness from him
+\v 33 But I will not remove my steadfast love from him
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 \v 34 I will not break my covenant

23-ISA/61.usfm

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 \v 8 For I, Yahweh, love justice, and I hate robbery and violent injustice. 
-\q1 I will faithfully repay them, and I will cut an everlasting covenant with them.
+\q1 I will faithfully repay them, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
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 \v 9 Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. 
 \q1 All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the people whom Yahweh has blessed.

24-JER/31.usfm

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 \v 31 Look, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
 \v 32 It will not be like the covenant that I established with their fathers in the days when I took them by their hand to bring them out from the land of Egypt. Those were the days when 
-they violated my covenant, although I was a husband for them—this is Yahweh's declaration.
+they broken my covenant, although I was a husband for them—this is Yahweh's declaration.
  
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 \v 33 But this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after these days—this is Yahweh's declaration: I will place my law within them and will write it on their heart, 

24-JER/32.usfm

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 \v 38 Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
 \v 39 I will give them one heart and one way to honor me every day so it will be good for them and their descendants after them.
-\v 40 And I will establish a perpetual covenant with them so I will not turn from after them. I will do this in order to bring goodness to them and place honor for me in their hearts. So they will no longer turn away from following me.
+\v 40 And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. I will set honor for me in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from me.
  
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 \v 41 Then I will rejoice in doing good to them. I will faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and all my life.

24-JER/33.usfm

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 \v 24 "Have you not considered what this people has declared when they said, 'The two clans that Yahweh chose, now he has rejected them'? In this way they despise my people, saying that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
  
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-\v 25 I, Yahweh, say this, 'If my covenant of day and night is no more, or I do not maintain the arrangement of heaven and earth,
-\v 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, and not bring from them a person to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their fortunes and be compassionate toward them.'"
+\v 25 I, Yahweh, say this, 'If I have not established the covenant of day and night, and if I have not fixed the laws of heaven and earth,
+\v 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, and not bring from them a person to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and show mercy to them.'"
 
 
  

24-JER/34.usfm

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-\v 8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah had established an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom:
-\v 9 Each man should free his Israelite servants, both male and female. No one should enslave a fellow Israelite in Judah any longer.
+\v 8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem, to proclaim freedom to them—
+\v 9 that each man must free his Hebrew servants, both male and female. No one is to make a slave of a Jew, who is his brother.
  
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-\v 10 So all the leaders and people who joined in the agreement obeyed. Each person would free his male and female servants and enslave them no longer. They listened and sent them away.
-\v 11 But after this they changed their minds. They brought back the servants whom they had freed. They compelled them to become slaves again.
+\v 10 So all the leaders and people entered into the covenant that each person would free his male and female servants so that they would not be enslaved any longer. They obeyed and set them free.
+\v 11 But after this they changed their minds. They brought back the servants whom they had freed. They forced them to become slaves again.
  
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 \v 12 So the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah and said,
-\v 13 "Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, 'I myself established a covenant with your ancestors on the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, out from the house of slavery. That was when I said,
+\v 13 "Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, 'I myself made a covenant with your ancestors on the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, out from the house of slavery. That was when I said,
 \v 14 "At the end of every seven years, each man must send away his brother, his fellow Hebrew who had sold himself to you and served you for six years. Send him away in freedom." But your ancestors did not listen to me and or pay attention.
  
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-\v 15 Now you yourselves repented and began to do what is right in my eyes. You proclaimed freedom, each man to his neighbor. And you established an agreement before me in the house that is called by my name.
+\v 15 Now you yourselves repented and began to do what is right in my eyes. You proclaimed freedom, each man to his neighbor. And you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name.
 \v 16 But then you turned and polluted my name; you caused each man to bring back his male and female servants, the ones whom you had sent out to go where they wished. You forced them to become your servants again.'
  
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 \v 17 Therefore Yahweh says this, 'You yourselves have not listened to me. You should have proclaimed freedom, every one of you, to your brothers and fellow Israelites. So look! I am about to proclaim freedom to you—this is Yahweh's declaration—freedom for the sword, the plague, and famine, for I am going to make you a horrible thing in the sight of every kingdom on earth.
-\v 18 Then I will deal with the people who have transgressed my covenant, who did not keep the words of the covenant that they established before me when they cut a bull in two and walked between its parts,
+\v 18 Then I will deal with the people who have broken my covenant, who did not keep the words of the covenant that they established before me when they cut a bull in two and walked between its parts,
 \v 19 and then the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests, and all the people of the land walked between the parts of the bull.
  
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24-JER/50.usfm

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 \v 4 In those days and at that time—this is Yahweh's declaration—the people of Israel and the people of Judah 
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-\v 5 They will ask the way to Zion and will set off toward it.
-\q They will go and join themselves to Yahweh in an eternal covenant that will not be broken.
+\v 5 They will ask the way to Zion and will set off toward it, saying, 
+\q We will go and join ourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten."
  
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26-EZK/16.usfm

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 \v 58 You will show your shame and your disgusting actions!—this is Yahweh's declaration!
 
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-\v 59 The Lord Yahweh says this: I will treat you as I treat anyone who despises an oath he took so he can break a covenant.
+\v 59 The Lord Yahweh says this: I will deal with you as you deserve, when you despised your oath by breaking the covenant.
 
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26-EZK/17.usfm

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 \v 14 so the kingdom might become lowly and not lift itself up. By keeping his covenant the land will survive.
  
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-\v 15 But the king of Jerusalem rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt to acquire horses and an army. Will he succeed? Will the one doing these things escape? If he violates the covenant, will he escape?
+\v 15 But the king of Jerusalem rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt to acquire horses and an army. Will he succeed? Will the one doing these things escape? If he breaks the covenant, will he escape?
 \v 16 As I live!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—he will surely die in the land of the king who made him king, the king whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke. He will die in the middle of Babylon.
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 \v 17 And Pharaoh with his mighty army and assembling of many men for war will not protect him in battle, when the Babylonian army builds siege mounds and siege walls to destroy many lives.
-\v 18 For the king has despised his oath by breaking the covenant. Behold, he reached out with his hand to promise, but he has done all these things. He will not escape.
+\v 18 For the king despised his oath by breaking the covenant. Behold, he reached out with his hand to make a promise and yet he did all these things. He will not escape.
  
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 \v 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: As I live, was it not my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke? So I will bring his punishment on his head!

26-EZK/20.usfm

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 \v 36 As I judged your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so also I will judge you—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration. 
-\v 37 I will cause you to pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant;
+\v 37 I will cause you to pass under my rod, and I will make you obey the requirements of the covenant.
 \v 38 I will purge from among you the rebels and those who revolt against me. I will send them out from the land where they are staying as foreigners, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
  
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26-EZK/37.usfm

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 \v 25 They will live in the land that I have given to my servant Jacob, where your fathers had stayed. They will live in it forever—they, their children, and their grandchildren, for David my servant will be their chief forever.
  
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-\v 26 I will establish a covenant of peace with them. It will be an eternal covenant with them. I will establish them and multiply them and set my holy place in their midst forever.
+\v 26 I will establish a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will establish them and multiply them and set my holy place in their midst forever.
 \v 27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
 \v 28 Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh who sets Israel apart, when my holy place is among them forever.'"
  

59-HEB/13.usfm

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-\v 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead ones the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of an eternal covenant,
+\v 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead ones the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, by the blood of an everlasting covenant,
 \v 21 perfect you with every good thing to do his will. May he work in us what is well pleasing before him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.
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