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02-EXO/13.usfm

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 2 "Dedicate to me all the firstborn, every firstborn male among the Israelites, both of people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me."
+\v 2 "Set apart to me all the firstborn, every firstborn male among the Israelites, both of people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me."
 
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02-EXO/28.usfm

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-\v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, DEDICATED TO YAHWEH.
+\v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, "Holy to Yahweh."
 \v 37 You must attach this plate by a blue cord to the front of the turban.
 \v 38 It must be on Aaron's forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites set is apart to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
 

02-EXO/29.usfm

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-\v 35 In this way, by following all that I have commanded you to do, you must treat Aaron and his sons. You must take seven days to dedicate them to me.
+\v 35 In this way, by following all that I have commanded you to do, you must treat Aaron and his sons. For seven days you must prepare them.
 \v 36 Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. You must purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you must anoint it in order to set it apart to me. 
 \v 37 For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and set it apart it to Yahweh. Then the altar will be completely set apart to me. Whatever touches the altar will be set apart for Yahweh.
 

02-EXO/30.usfm

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 \v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum—sweet spices along with pure frankincense, each in equal amounts.
-\v 35 Make it into the form of incense, blended by a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and dedicated to me.
+\v 35 Make it into the form of incense, blended by a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and set apart.
 \v 36 You will grind it into a very fine mixture. Put part of it in front of the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. You will regard it as very holy to me.
 
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02-EXO/39.usfm

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-\v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold; they engraved on it, like the engraving on a signet, DEDICATED TO YAHWEH.
+\v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold; they engraved on it, like the engraving on a signet, "Holy to Yahweh."
 \v 31 They attached to the turban a blue cord to the top of the turban. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
 
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03-LEV/19.usfm

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 \v 5 When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must offer it that you may be accepted.
 \v 6 It must be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it must be burned.
 \v 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is defiled. It must not be accepted, 
-\v 8 but everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has polluted what was dedicated to Yahweh. That person must be cut off from his people.
+\v 8 but everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has dishonored what was holy to Yahweh. That person must be cut off from his people.
 
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04-NUM/11.usfm

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 \v 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will bear the burden of the people with you. You will not have to bear it alone.
 
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-\v 18 Say to the people, 'Dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. You will indeed eat meat, for you have wept in Yahweh's hearing. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." So Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it.
+\v 18 Say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow and you will indeed eat meat, for you have wept and Yahweh has heard. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it.
 \v 19 You will not eat meat for only one day, two days, five days, ten days, or twenty days,
 \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?"'"
  

04-NUM/21.usfm

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 \v 10 Then the people of Israel traveled on and camped at Oboth.
-\v 11 They traveled from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the east.
+\v 11 They traveled from there and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the east.
  
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 \v 12 From there they traveled on and camped in the valley of Zered.

06-JOS/03.usfm

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 \v 4 There must be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits. Do not come close to it, so that you can see which way to go, since you have not gone this way before."
 
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-\v 5 Joshua said to the people, "Dedicate yourselves to Yahweh tomorrow, for Yahweh will do wonders among you."
+\v 5 Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves tomorrow, for Yahweh will do wonders among you."
 \v 6 Then Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass in front of the people." So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went in front of people.
 
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06-JOS/06.usfm

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 \v 17 The city and all that is in it will be set apart to Yahweh for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute will live—she and all the ones with her in her house—because she hid the men we sent.
 \v 18 But as for you, be on guard about taking the things set apart for destruction, so that after you mark them for destruction, you do not then take any of them. If you do this, you will make the camp of Israel something that must be destroyed and you will bring trouble on it.
-\v 19 All the silver, gold, and the things made of bronze and iron are dedicated to Yahweh. They must be brought into the treasury of Yahweh."
+\v 19 All the silver, gold, and the things made of bronze and iron are set apart to Yahweh. They must go into the treasury of Yahweh."
 
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 \v 20 So the people shouted, and they gave blasts with the trumpets. It came about when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat so that the people went up into the city, everyone straight ahead. And they captured the city.

06-JOS/07.usfm

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 \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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-\v 13 Get up! Dedicate the people to me and say to them, 'Dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. For Yahweh the God of Israel says, "There are things set apart to be destroyed that are still among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove from among you all the things that were set apart to be destroyed."
+\v 13 Get up! Consecrate the people to me and say to them, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow. For Yahweh the God of Israel says, "There are things set apart to be destroyed that are still among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove from among you all the things that were set apart to be destroyed."
 
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 \v 14 In the morning, you must present yourselves by your tribes. The tribe that Yahweh selects by lot will come near by their clans. The clan that Yahweh takes must come near by each household. The household that Yahweh takes must come near one by one.

07-JDG/13.usfm

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 \v 3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman and said to her, "See now, you have been unable to become pregnant, and you have not given birth, but you will become pregnant and you will give birth to a son.
 \v 4 Now be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean.
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-\v 5 Look, you will become pregnant and give birth to a son. No razor will be used upon his head, for the child will be a Nazirite dedicated to God from the womb. He will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines."
+\v 5 Look, you will become pregnant and give birth to a son. No razor will be used upon his head, for the child will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines."
  
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 \v 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like that of an angel of God, very terrible. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

07-JDG/17.usfm

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 \v 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to a metal worker who made them a carved wooden figure and a cast metal figure. It was placed in the house of Micah.
  
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-\v 5 The man Micah had a house of idols and he made an ephod and household gods, and he dedicated one of his sons to become his priest.
+\v 5 The man Micah had a house of idols and he made an ephod and household gods, and he hired one of his sons to become his priest.
 \v 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  
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12-2KI/10.usfm

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 \v 18 Then Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.
 \v 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers, and all his priests. Let no one be left out, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever does not come will not live." But Jehu did this deceitfully, with the intent to kill the worshipers of Baal.
-\v 20 Jehu said, "Dedicate a solemn assembly for Baal, and set aside a day for it." So they proclaimed it.
+\v 20 Jehu said, "Set a time to have an assembly for Baal." So they announced it.
 
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 \v 21 Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. They came into the temple of Baal, and it was filled from one end to another.

14-2CH/02.usfm

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 \v 3 Solomon sent a message to Hiram, the king of Tyre, saying, "As you did with David my father, sending him cedar logs to build a house to live in, do the same with me.
  
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-\v 4 See, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the constant bread of the presence, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the fixed festivals for Yahweh our God. This is law for Israel for all time.
+\v 4 See, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to set it apart to him, to burn incense of sweet spices before him, to set out the bread of the presence, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and on the new moons, and on the appointed feasts for Yahweh our God. This is forever, for Israel.
 \v 5 The house that I will build will be very large, for our God is greater than all other gods. 
 
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14-2CH/05.usfm

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-\v 1 Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David, his father, had dedicated, including the silver, the gold, and all the furnishings, and put them into the storerooms of the house of God.
+\v 1 When all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was completed, Solomon brought in the things that David, his father, had set apart for this purpose, including the silver, the gold, and all the furnishings—he placed them into the treasuries of the house of God.
 
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-\v 11 It came about that the priests came out of the holy place. All the priests who were present had dedicated themselves to Yahweh, with no regard for their divisions.
+\v 11 It came about that the priests came out of the holy place. All the priests who were present had consecrated themselves to Yahweh, not ordering themselves according to their divisions.
 \v 12 Also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, clothed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood at the east end of the altar. With them were 120 priests blowing trumpets.
 
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