from Bob Johnson

02-EXO/20.usfm

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 \v 24 You must make an earthen altar for me, and you must sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, fellowship offerings, sheep, and oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
 \v 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tools on it, you will have defiled it.
-\v 26 You must not go up by steps to my altar; this is to keep you from exposing your private parts.'"
+\v 26 You must not go up by steps to my altar, so that you nakedness not be uncovered.'"
 
 
 

03-LEV/18.usfm

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-\v 6 No one must sleep with anyone to whom he is closely related. I am Yahweh.
+\v 6 No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.
 \v 7 Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.
 \v 8 Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.
 

03-LEV/20.usfm

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 \v 10 The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, that is, anyone who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife—the adulterer and the adulteress must both certainly be put to death.
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-\v 11 The man who lies down with his father's wife to sleep with her has disgraced his own father. Both the son and his father's wife must certainly be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 11 If a man lies with his father's wife, he uncovers his father's nakedness. Both the son and his father's wife must certainly be put to death. Their blood is upon them.
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 \v 12 If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must certainly be put to death. They have committed perversion. They are guilty and deserve to die.
 
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-\v 17 If a man sleeps with his sister, either his father's daughter or his mother's daughter—if he sleeps with her and she with him, it is a shameful thing. They must be cut off from the presence of their people, because he has slept with his sister. He must carry his guilt.
+\v 17 If a man sleeps with his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and he uncovers her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They must be cut off from the presence of their people, because he has slept with his sister. He must carry his guilt.
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 \v 18 If a man sleeps with a woman during her menstrual period and has slept with her, he has uncovered the flow of her blood, the source of her blood. Both the man and woman must be cut off from among their people.
 

19-PSA/089.usfm

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 \v 30 If his children forsake my law
-\q and disobey my decrees,
+\q and do not walk in my regulations,
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 \v 31 if they break my rules
 \q and do not keep my commands,

19-PSA/119.usfm

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-\v 161 Princes persecute me without cause;
-\q my heart trembles, afraid of disobeying your word.
+\v 161 Princes persecute me without cause,
+\q but my heart stands in awe of your word.
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 \v 162 I rejoice at your word
 \q like one who finds great plunder.

24-JER/50.usfm

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 \v 35 A sword is against the Chaldeans—this is Yahweh's declaration—
 \q and against the inhabitants of Babylon, her leaders, and her wise men.
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-\v 36 A sword is coming against those who say words for divination, so that they reveal themselves as fools.
-\q A sword is coming against her soldiers, so they will be filled with terror.
+\v 36 A sword against those who say empty words! They will become fools!
+\q A sword against her soldiers! They will be filled with terror.
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 \v 37 A sword is coming against their horses, their chariots and all of the people who are in the midst of Babylon,
 \q so they will become like women. A sword is coming against her storerooms, and they will be plundered.

26-EZK/16.usfm

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 \v 35 Therefore, you prostitute, listen to the word of Yahweh.
-\v 36 The Lord Yahweh says this: Because you have poured your lust out and exposed your private parts through your acts of prostitution with all of your lovers and with all your disgusting idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to your idols,
-\v 37 therefore, behold! I will gather all your lovers that you have met, all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated, and I will gather them against you on every side. I will expose your private parts to them so they can see all your nakedness.
+\v 36 The Lord Yahweh says this: Because you have poured out your lust and uncovered your nakedness through your acts of prostitution with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood,
+\v 37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers that you have met, all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated, and I will gather them against you on every side. I will uncover your nakedness to them so they see all your nakedness.
 
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 \v 38 For I will punish you for adultery and the shedding of blood, and I will bring on you the bloodshed of my anger and passion.

26-EZK/22.usfm

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 \v 9 Slanderous men have come among you in order to pour out blood, and they eat on the mountains. They perform wickedness in your midst.
 
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-\v 10 The nakedness of a father is revealed within you. They have abused the unclean woman within you during her impurity.
+\v 10 In this city men uncover the nakedness of their father. Within the city they have violated unclean women during their menstrual period.
 \v 11 Men who commit abominations with their neighbors' wives, and men who make their own daughters-in-law shamefully unclean; men who abuse their own sisters—daughters of their own fathers—all these are among you.
 \v 12 These men take bribes among you in order to pour out blood. You have taken interest and gained too much profit, you have damaged your neighbors through oppression, and you have forgotten me—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 

26-EZK/23.usfm

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 \v 8 For she had not left her prostitute behavior behind in Egypt, when they had slept with her when she had been a young girl, when they first began to fondle her virgin breasts, when they first began to pour out their promiscuous behavior on her.
 \v 9 Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
-\v 10 They stripped her naked. They took her sons and daughters, and they killed her with the sword, and she became shameful to other women, so they passed judgment on her.
+\v 10 They uncovered her nakedness, took her sons and daughters, killed her with the sword, and she became notorious among other women, so they executed judgment on her.
 
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-\v 18 She displayed her acts of prostitution and she showed her unclothed body,
-\q so my soul turned away from her, just as my soul turned away from her sister.
+\v 18 When she displayed her acts of prostitution and uncovered her nakedness, 
+\q I turned away from her, just as I had turned away in disgust from her sister.
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 \v 19 Then she increased her prostitution as she remembered the days of her youth,
 \q when she was a prostitute in the land of Egypt.
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 \v 28 For the Lord Yahweh says this, 'Behold! I will give you into the hand of the ones you hate, back into the hand of the ones from whom you had turned away.
-\v 29 They will deal with you hatefully; they will take all your possessions and abandon you unclothed and bare. The naked shame of your prostitution will be revealed, your shameful behavior and your promiscuousness.
+\v 29 They will deal with you hatefully; they will take all your possessions and abandon you naked and bare, and your nakedness will be uncovered just as when you engaged in promiscuity and prostitutions.
 
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 \v 30 These things will be done to you in your acting like a prostitute, lusting after nations by which you became unclean with their idols.

44-JHN/19.usfm

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-\v 28 After this, knowing that everything was now completed and so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
+\v 28 After this, knowing that everything was now completed and so that the scriptures would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
 \v 29 A container full of sour wine was placed there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop staff and lifted it up to his mouth.
 \v 30 When Jesus had taken the sour wine, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
 

67-REV/02.usfm

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 \v 1 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
-\p 'These are the words of the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands,
+\p 'The words of the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands,
 \v 2 "I know what you have done and your hard labor and your patient endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate the evil people. I know that you have tested those who say they are apostles, but are not, and that you have found them to be false.
 
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 \v 8 "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
-\p 'These are the words of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead and who became alive again:
+\p 'The words of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead and who became alive again:
 \v 9 "I know your sufferings and your poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews, but they are not. They are a synagogue of Satan.
 
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 \v 12 "To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
-\p 'These are the words of the one who has the sword with two sharp edges:
+\p 'The words of the one who has the sword with two sharp edges:
 \v 13 "I know where you live, there where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold on tightly to my name. I know that you did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, there where Satan lives.
 
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 \v 18 "To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
 \p 'These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and feet like polished bronze:
-\v 19 "I know what you have done: Your love and faith and service and your patient endurance. I know that what you have done recently is more than you did at first.
+\v 19 "I know what you have done: your love and faith and service and your patient endurance. I know that what you have done recently is more than you did at first.
 
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 \v 20 But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

67-REV/03.usfm

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 \v 1 "To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
-\p 'These are the words of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "I know what you have done. You have a reputation that you are alive, but you are dead.
+\p 'The words of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "I know what you have done. You have a reputation that you are alive, but you are dead.
 \v 2 Wake up and strengthen what remains, but is about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.
 
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 \v 7 "To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
-\q 'These are the words of the one who is holy and true—
+\q 'The words of the one who is holy and true—
 \q2 he holds the key of David,
 \q2 he opens and no one shuts,
 \q3 he shuts and no one can open.
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 \v 9 Look! Those who belong to the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews but are not, but they are liars—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will come to know that I loved you.
 \v 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is coming on the whole world, to test those who live on the earth.
-\v 11 I am coming soon. Hold tight to what you have so no one can take away your crown.
+\v 11 I am coming soon. Hold to what you have so no one can take away your crown.
 
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 \v 12 The one who conquers, I will make like a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem, that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name.
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 \v 14 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
-\p 'These are the words of the Amen, the reliable and true witness, the ruler over God's creation.
+\p 'The words of the Amen, the reliable and true witness, the ruler over God's creation.
 \v 15 "I know what you have done, and that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot!
 \v 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of my mouth.
 

67-REV/05.usfm

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 \v 7 He went and took hold of the scroll out of the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne.
 
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-\v 8 When the Lamb took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves before him. Each of them had a harp and a golden bowl full of incense, which is the prayers of the believers.
+\v 8 When the Lamb took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves before him. Each of them had a harp and a golden bowl full of incense, which are the prayers of the believers.
 
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 \v 9 They sang a new song:
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 \v 13 I heard every created thing that was in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea—everything in them—saying,
-\pi "To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be praise, honor, glory, and the power to rule, forever and ever."
+\pi "To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise, honor, glory, and the power to rule, forever and ever."
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 \v 14 The four living creatures said, "Amen!" and the elders prostrated themselves and worshiped.
 \f + \ft Some older versions read, \fqa the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves and worshiped the one who lives forever and ever. \fqa* \f*

67-REV/06.usfm

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 \v 7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
-\v 8 Then I saw a pale horse. The rider on it was named Death, and Hades was following him. They were given authority over one-fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, famine and disease, and with the wild animals of the earth.
+\v 8 Then I saw a pale horse. The rider on it was named Death, and Hades was following him. They were given authority over one-fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine and disease, and with the wild animals of the earth.
 
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 \v 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that was being rolled up. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
 
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-\v 15 Then the kings of the earth and the important people, and the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone else, slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
+\v 15 Then the kings of the earth and the important people, and the generals, and the rich, and the powerful, and everyone else, slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
 \v 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us! Hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the Lamb's wrath.
 \v 17 For the great day of their wrath has come. Who is able to stand?"
 

67-REV/07.usfm

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 \v 4 I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000, who were sealed from every tribe of the people of Israel:
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-\v 5 twelve thousand from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
+\v 5 twelve thousand from the tribe of Judah,
 \q twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben,
 \q twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad,
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 \v 6 twelve thousand from the tribe of Asher,
 \q twelve thousand from the tribe of Naphtali,
-\q twelve thousand from the tribe of Manasseh.
+\q twelve thousand from the tribe of Manasseh,
 
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-\v 11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they prostrated themselves on their faces before the throne. They worshiped God,
+\v 11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne. They worshiped God,
 \v 12 saying,
 \pi "Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen!"
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67-REV/11.usfm

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-\v 16 Then the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones in the presence of God, prostrated themselves on their faces and worshiped God.
+\v 16 Then the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones in the presence of God, fell upon their faces and worshiped God.
 \v 17 They said,
 \q "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was,
 \q because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.

67-REV/19.usfm

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 \v 11 Then I saw heaven open, and I looked and there was a white horse. The one riding it is called faithful and true. It is with justice that he judges and wages war.
-\v 12 His eyes are like a fiery flame, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
+\v 12 His eyes are like a fiery flame, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but himself.
 \v 13 He wears a robe that was dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
 
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