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01-GEN.usfm

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-\v 1 The man slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have produced a man with Yahweh's help."
+\v 1 The man knew Eve his wife and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have produced a man with Yahweh's help."
 \v 2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd, but Cain cultivated the soil.
 
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 \v 16 So Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh and lived in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
-\v 17 Cain slept with his wife and she conceived. She gave birth to Enoch. He built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
+\v 17 Cain knew his wife and she conceived. She gave birth to Enoch. He built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
 
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 \v 18 To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
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-\v 25 Adam slept with his wife again, and she bore another son. She called his name Seth and said, "God has given me another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him."
+\v 25 Adam knew his wife again, and she bore another son. She called his name Seth and said, "God has given me another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him."
 \v 26 A son was born to Seth and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of Yahweh.
 
 
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 \v 1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and your very great reward."
 \v 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
-\v 3 Abram said, "Since you have given me no descendant, see, the steward of my house is my heir."
+\v 3 Abram said, "Since you have given me no descendant, see, one born in my house will be my heir!"
 
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 \v 4 Then, behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but rather the one who will come from your own body will be your heir."
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 \v 19 God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you must name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant with his descendants after him.
-\v 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I hereby bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him abundantly. He will be the father of twelve leaders of tribes, and I will make him become a great nation.
+\v 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him abundantly. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him become a great nation.
 \v 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time in the next year."
 
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 \v 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the men from every part of the city.
-\v 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men that came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may sleep with them."
+\v 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men that came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them."
 
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 \v 6 So Lot went out the door to them and shut the door after himself.
 \v 7 He said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
-\v 8 Look, I have two daughters who have not slept with any man. Let me, I beg you, bring them out to you, and you do to them whatever is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
+\v 8 Look, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me, I beg you, bring them out to you, and you do to them whatever is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
 
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 \v 9 They said, "Stand back!" They also said, "This one came here to live as a foreigner, and now he has become our judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." They pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near to break down the door.
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 \v 30 But Lot went up from Zoar to live in the mountains with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
 
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-\v 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere to sleep with us according to the way of all the world.
+\v 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere to lie with us according to the way of all the world.
-\v 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will sleep with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
+\v 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
-\v 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. Then the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
+\v 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. Then the firstborn went in and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
 
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-\v 34 The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Listen, last night I slept with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you should go in and sleep with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
+\v 34 The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Listen, here I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you should go in and lie with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
-\v 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went and slept with him. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
+\v 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went and lay with him. He did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
 
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 \v 36 So both the daughters of Lot were pregnant by their father.
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 \v 15 It came about that even before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out with her water pitcher on her shoulder. Rebekah was born to Bethuel son of Milkah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.
-\v 16 The young woman was very beautiful and a virgin. No man had slept with her. She went down to the spring and filled her pitcher, and came up.
+\v 16 The young woman was very beautiful and a virgin. She had known no man. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher and came up.
 
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 \v 17 Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little drink of water from your pitcher."
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 \v 9 Abimelech called Isaac to him and said, "Look, certainly she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."
-\v 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
+\v 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
 \v 11 So Abimelech warned all the people and said, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
 
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 \v 22 So Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.
 
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-\v 23 In the evening, Laban took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, who slept with her.
+\v 23 In the evening, Laban took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, who went in to her.
 \v 24 Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah, to be her servant.
 \v 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?"
 
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 \v 28 Jacob did so, and completed Leah's week. Then Laban gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also.
 \v 29 Laban also gave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel, to be her servant.
-\v 30 So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, but he loved Rachel more than Leah. So Jacob served Laban for seven more years.
+\v 30 So Jacob went in to Rachel, too, but he loved Rachel more than Leah. So Jacob served Laban for seven more years.
 
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 \v 2 Jacob's anger burned against Rachel. He said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
 
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-\v 3 She said, "See, there is my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her, so she might give birth to children on my knees, and I will have children by her."
+\v 3 She said, "See, there is my servant Bilhah. Go in to her, so she might give birth to children on my knees, and I will have children by her."
-\v 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.
+\v 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
 
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 \v 5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
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 \v 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field. He brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."
-\v 15 Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter to you, that you have taken away my husband? Do you now want to take away my son's mandrakes, too?" Rachel said, "Then he will sleep with you tonight, in exchange for your son's mandrakes."
+\v 15 Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter to you, that you have taken away my husband? Do you now want to take away my son's mandrakes, too?" Rachel said, "Then he will lie with you tonight, in exchange for your son's mandrakes."
 
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-\v 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening. Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me tonight, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
+\v 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening. Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So Jacob lay with Leah that night.
 \v 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
 \v 18 Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I gave my servant woman to my husband." She called his name Issachar.
 
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 \v 1 Now Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to meet the young women of the land.
-\v 2 Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her and he grabbed her, assaulted her, and slept with her.
+\v 2 Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her and lay with her, and he humiliated her.
 \v 3 He was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
 
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 \v 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
-\v 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of the matter. The men were offended. They were very angry because he had disgraced Israel by forcing himself on Jacob's daughter, for such a thing should not have been done.
+\v 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of the matter. The men were offended. They were very angry because he had disgraced Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing should not have been done.
 
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 \v 8 Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem loves your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
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 \v 21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond the watchtower of the flock.
-\v 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
+\v 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
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 \v 1 It came about at that time that Judah left his brothers and stayed with a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
-\v 2 He met there a daughter of a Canaanite man whose name was Shua. He married her and slept with her.
+\v 2 He met there a daughter of a Canaanite man whose name was Shua. He took her and he went in to her.
 
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 \v 3 She became pregnant and had a son. He was named Er.
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 \v 7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
 
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-\v 8 Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Do the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother."
+\v 8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife. Do the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother."
-\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his. Whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
+\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his. Whenever he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
 \v 10 What he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him also.
 
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 \v 15 When Judah saw her he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
-\v 16 He went to her by the road and said, "Come, please let me sleep with you"—for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law—and she said, "What will you give me so you can sleep with me?"
+\v 16 He went to her by the road and said, "Come, please let me lie with you"—for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law—and she said, "What will you give me so you can lie with me?"
 
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 \v 17 He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge until you send it?"
-\v 18 He said, "What pledge can I give you?" She replied, "Your seal and cord, and the staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
+\v 18 He said, "What pledge can I give you?" She replied, "Your seal and cord, and the staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her and he went in to her, and she became pregnant by him.
 
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 \v 19 She got up and went away. She took off her veil and put on the clothing of her widowhood.
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 \v 24 It came about after about three months that it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has committed prostitution, and indeed, she is pregnant by it." Judah said, "Bring her here and let her be burned."
 \v 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law a message, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She said, "Determine please whose these are, the seal and cords and staff."
-\v 26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I am, since I did not give her as a wife to Shelah, my son." He did not sleep with her again.
+\v 26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I am, since I did not give her as a wife to Shelah, my son." He did not lie with her again.
 
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 \v 27 It came about at the time for her to give birth that, behold, twins were in her womb.
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 \v 6 Potiphar put everything that he had under Joseph's care. He did not have to think about anything except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive.
 
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-\v 7 It came about after this that his master's wife lusted for Joseph. She said, "Sleep with me."
+\v 7 It came about after this that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
 \v 8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not pay attention to what I do in the house, and he has put everything that he owns under my care.
 \v 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. He has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"
 
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-\v 10 She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her or to be with her.
+\v 10 She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he refused to lie with her or to be with her.
 \v 11 It came about one day that he went into the house to do his work. None of the men of the house were there in the house.
-\v 12 She caught him by his clothes and said, "Sleep with me." He left his clothing in her hand, fled, and went outside.
+\v 12 She caught him by his clothes and said, "Lie with me." He left his clothing in her hand, fled, and went outside.
 
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 \v 13 It came about, when she saw that he had left his clothing in her hand and had fled outside,
-\v 14 that she called to the men of her house and told them, "See, Potiphar has brought in a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to sleep with me, and I screamed.
+\v 14 that she called to the men of her house and told them, "See, Potiphar has brought in a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I screamed.
 \v 15 It came about when he heard me scream, that he left his clothing with me, fled, and went outside."
 
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02-EXO.usfm

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 \v 12 Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and attack all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will bring punishment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
 \v 13 The blood will be a sign on your houses for my coming to you. When I see the blood, I will pass over you when I attack the land of Egypt. This plague will not come on you and destroy you.
-\v 14 This day will become a memorial day for you, which you must observe as a festival for Yahweh. It will always be a law for you, throughout your people's generations, that you must observe this day.
+\v 14 This day will become a memorial day for you, which you must observe as a festival to Yahweh; for your generations—a statute that you must keep forever. 
 
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-\v 16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and if he sleeps with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.
+\v 16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and if he lies with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.
 \v 17 If her father completely refuses to give her to him, he must pay money equal to the bride wealth of virgins.
 
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 \v 18 You must not allow a sorceress to live.
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-\v 19 Whoever sleeps with a beast must surely be put to death.
+\v 19 Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.
 
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 \v 20 You must command the people of Israel to bring olive oil, pure and pressed, for the lamps so they may burn continually.
-\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance throughout the generations of the people of Israel.
+\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting statute throughout the generations of the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh, and it will be your share.
 \v 27 You must set apart to me the breast of the wave offering that is waved, and the thigh that is the contribution for the priests—both the breast that was waved and the thigh that was contributed for Aaron and his sons.
-\v 28 This will be a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his sons. It will be a contribution from the people of Israel to give to Yahweh from their peace offerings. 
+\v 28 This will be a perpetual share for Aaron and his sons. It will be a contribution from the people of Israel to give to Yahweh from their peace offerings. 
 
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 \v 29 The holy garments of Aaron must also be reserved for his sons after him. They are to be anointed in them and ordained to me in them.
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 \v 15 Work will be done for six days, but the seventh day is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy before Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
 
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-\v 16 Therefore the Israelites must keep the Sabbath. They must observe it throughout their people's generations as a permanent law.
+\v 16 Therefore the Israelites must keep the Sabbath. They must observe it throughout their people's generations as a lasting covenant.
 \v 17 The Sabbath will always be a sign between Yahweh and the Israelites, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
 
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 \v 3 All the people took off the golden rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
-\v 4 He received the gold from them, fashioned it in a mold, and made it into a molded calf. Then the people said, "Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
+\v 4 He received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool and he made a cast idol in the shape of a calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
 
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 \v 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and made a proclamation; he said, "Tomorrow will be a festival in Yahweh's honor."
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 \v 7 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go quickly, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
-\v 8 They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have molded for themselves a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
+\v 8 They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast idol in the shape of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
 
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03-LEV.usfm

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 \v 16 If any man has an emission of semen, then he must bathe his whole body in water; he will be unclean until evening.
 \v 17 Every garment or leather on which there is semen must be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
-\v 18 If a woman and a man sleep together and there is a transfer of semen to her, they must both bathe themselves in water; they will be unclean until evening.
+\v 18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water and be unclean until evening.
 
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 \v 22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; that person will be unclean until evening.
 \v 23 Whether it is on the bed or on anything on which she sits, if he touches it, that person will be unclean until evening.
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-\v 24 If any man sleeps with her, and if her impure flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Every bed on which he lies will be unclean.
+\v 24 If any man lies with her, and if her impure flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Every bed on which he lies will be unclean.
 
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 \v 32 These are the regulations for anyone who has a flow of fluid, for any man whose semen goes out of him and makes him unclean,
-\v 33 for any woman who has a menstrual period, for anyone with a flow of fluid, whether male or female, and for any man who sleeps with an unclean woman.'"
+\v 33 for any woman who has a menstrual period, for anyone with a flow of fluid, whether male or female, and for any man who lies with an unclean woman.'"
 
 
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-\v 6 No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.
+\v 6 Do not approach any close relatives to uncover 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 7 Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you must not uncover her nakedness. 
-\v 8 Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.
+\v 8 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's wives; it is your father's nakedness.
 
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-\v 9 Do not sleep with any sister of yours, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was raised at your home or distant from you. You must not sleep with your sisters.
+\v 9 Do not uncover the nakedness of your sister, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was raised at your home or distant from you. 
-\v 10 Do not sleep with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter. That would be your own shame.
+\v 10 Do not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
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+\v 11 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister. 
-\v 11 Do not sleep with your father's wife's daughter, who was born of your father. She is your sister, and you must not sleep with her.
 
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-\v 12 Do not sleep with your father's sister. She is a close relative to your father.
+\v 12 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.
-\v 13 Do not sleep with your mother's sister. She is a close relative to your mother.
+\v 13 Do not uncover the nakedness your mother's sister, she is your mother's relative. 
-\v 14 Do not dishonor the brother of your father by sleeping with his wife. Do not go near her for that purpose; she is your aunt.
+\v 14 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you must not approach his wife; she is your aunt. 
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-\v 15 Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not sleep with her.
-\v 16 Do not sleep with your brother's wife; do not dishonor him in this way.
 
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-\v 17 Do not sleep with a woman and her daughter, or with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are close relatives to her, and sleeping with them would be wicked.
+\v 15 Do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.
-\v 18 You must not marry your wife's sister as a second wife and sleep with her while your first wife is alive.
+\v 16 Do not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; that is your brother's nakedness.
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+\v 17 Do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; and you must not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; that is wickedness.  
+\v 18 You must not marry your wife's sister as a second wife and uncover her nakedness while your first wife is alive.
 
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-\v 19 Do not sleep with a woman during her menstruation. She is unclean during that time.
+\v 19 Do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during the time of her uncleanness.
-\v 20 Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.
+\v 20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.
 
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 \v 21 You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
 
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-\v 22 Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.
+\v 22 Do not lie with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.
-\v 23 Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.
+\v 23 Do not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it. Neither should any woman present herself to an animal to lie with it. That is a perversion.
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 \v 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.
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-\v 20 Whoever sleeps with a slave girl who is promised to a husband, but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, they must be punished. They must not be put to death because she was not free.
+\v 20 Whoever lies with a slave girl who is promised to a husband, but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, must be punished. They must not be put to death because she was not free.
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 \v 21 A man must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the entrance to the tent of meeting—a ram as a guilt offering.
 \v 22 Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram for the guilt offering before Yahweh, for the sin that he has committed. Then the sin which he has committed will be forgiven.
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 \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.
+\v 12 If a man lies 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 13 If a man sleeps with another man, as with a woman, both of them have done something detestable. They must surely be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 13 If a man lies with another man, as with a woman, both of them have done something detestable. They must surely be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
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 \v 14 If a man marries a woman and also marries her mother, this is wickedness. They must be burned, both he and the women, so that there will be no wickedness among you.
 
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-\v 15 If a man sleeps with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
+\v 15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
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-\v 16 If a woman approaches any animal to sleep with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must certainly be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 16 If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must certainly be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
 
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-\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.
+\v 17 If a man takes 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 in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister, and 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.
+\v 18 If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and has uncovered her nakedness, he has uncovered her flow, the fountain of her blood. Both the man and woman must be cut off from among their people.
 
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-\v 19 You must not sleep with your mother's sister, or with your father's sister, because you would disgrace your close relative. You must carry your own guilt.
+\v 19 You must not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, or your father's sister, because you would disgrace your close relative. You must carry your own guilt.
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-\v 20 If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will bear responsibility for their sin, and they will die without children.
+\v 20 If a man lies with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will bear responsibility for their sin, and they will die without children.
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 \v 21 If a man marries his brother's wife while his brother is still living, that is disgraceful. He has dishonored his brother, and I will take away from their children any property they may have inherited from their parents. 
 

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 \v 36 They counted 2,750 men by their clans.
 
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-\v 37 Moses and Aaron counted all the men in the clans and families of the Kohathites who serve in the tent of meeting. In doing this, they obeyed what Yahweh had commanded them to do through Moses.
+\v 37 This was the list of all the Kohathites who served in the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to Yahweh's command that was given through Moses. 
 
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 \v 12 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Suppose that a man's wife turns away and sins against her husband.
 
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-\v 13 Then suppose that another man sleeps with her. In that case, she is defiled. Even if her husband does not see it or know about it, and even if no one catches her in the act and there is no one to testify against her,
+\v 13 If a man lies with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and her impurity is undetected even though she defiled herself, and there no witness against her. since she was not caught in the act, 
 \v 14 nevertheless, a spirit of jealousy might still inform the husband that his wife is defiled. However, a spirit of jealousy might falsely come on a man when his wife is not defiled.
 
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 \v 18 The priest will set the woman before Yahweh and he will untie the hair on the woman's head. He will put into her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that can bring a curse.
-\v 19 The priest will put the woman under an oath and say to her, 'If no other man had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse.
+\v 19 The priest will put the woman under an oath and say to her, 'If no other man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse.
 
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-\v 20 But if you, a woman under her husband, have gone astray, if you are defiled, and if some other man has slept with you,
+\v 20 But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority and you have defiled yourself, and some other man has had sexual relations with you, 
 \v 21 then, (the priest must cause the woman to swear an oath that can bring down a curse on her, and then he must continue speaking to the woman) 'Yahweh will make you into a curse that will be shown to your people to be such. This will happen if Yahweh causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.
 \v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thighs waste away.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.'
 
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 \v 13 But any person who is clean and is not on a journey, but who fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not offer the sacrifice that Yahweh requires at the fixed time of year. That man must carry his sin.
-\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover in Yahweh's honor, he must keep it and do all he commands, keeping the rules of the Passover, and obeying the laws for it. You must have the same law for the foreigner and for all who have been born in the land."
+\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover to Yahweh, he must keep it according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule. You must have one statute both for the foreigner and for the one who was born in the land."
 
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 \v 8 Again, Moses said to Korah, "Now listen, you descendants of Levi:
 \v 9 is it a small thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do work in Yahweh's tabernacle, and to stand before the community to serve them?
 \v 10 He has brought you near, and all your kinfolk, the descendants of Levi, with you, yet you are seeking the priesthood also!
-\v 11 That is why you and all your group have gathered together against Yahweh. So why are you complaining about Aaron, who obeys Yahweh?"
+\v 11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled against Yahweh. Who is Aaron that you grumble against him?"
 
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 \v 3 When a young woman living in her father's house makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself with a promise,
-\v 4 if her father hears the vow and the promise by which she has bound herself, and if he says nothing to reverse her, then all her vows will remain in force. Every promise by which she has bound herself will remain in force.
+\v 4 if her father hears the vow and the promise by which she has bound herself, and if he says nothing to reverse her, then all her vows will remain in force. 
 
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-\v 5 But if her father hears about her vow and her promise, and if he says nothing to her, then all the vows and promises that she took on herself will remain in force.
+\v 5 But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will remain in force; Yahweh will release her because her father has forbidden her. 
 
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-\v 6 However, if her father hears all the vows she made and her solemn promises with which she has bound herself, and if he overrules her on that same day, then they will not remain in force. Yahweh will forgive her because her father had overruled her.
+\v 6 If she marries a husband after she makes a vow or her lips uttered a rash promise by which she has bound herself, 
-\v 7 If she marries a man while she is under those vows, or if she makes rash promises with which she obligates herself, those obligations will remain in force.
+\v 7 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows by which she bound herself will remain in force.
 
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 \v 16 Look, these women caused the people of Israel, through Balaam's advice, to commit sin against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, when the plague spread among Yahweh's community.
-\v 17 Now then, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.
+\v 17 Now then, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with him.
 
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-\v 18 But take for yourselves all the young girls who have never slept with a man.
+\v 18 But take for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man by lying with him.
 \v 19 You must camp outside the camp of Israel for seven days. All of you who have killed anyone and or have touched any dead person—you must purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day—you and your prisoners.
 \v 20 You must purify every garment and everything made of animal hide and goats' hair, and everything made of wood."
 
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 \v 32 Now the plunder that remained of what the soldiers had taken was 675,000 sheep,
 \v 33 seventy-two thousand oxen,
 \v 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,
-\v 35 and thirty-two thousand women who had never slept with any man.
+\v 35 and thirty-two thousand women who had not known a man by lying with him. 
 
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 \v 13 He declared to you his covenant that he commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments. He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
-\v 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, so that you might do them in the land that you are crossing over to take possession of.
+\v 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, so that you might do them in the land that you are crossing over to take possession of it.
 
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-\v 11 Be careful that you do not forget Yahweh your God, and that you do not neglect his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am commanding you today,
+\v 11 Be careful that you do not forget Yahweh your God, by failing to keep his commandments and his rules and statutes that I am commanding you today. 
-\v 12 otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
+\v 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
 
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 \v 9 You must go to the priests, the descendants of Levi, and to the judge who will be serving at that time; you will seek their advice, and they will give you the verdict.
 
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-\v 10 You must follow the law given to you at the place Yahweh will choose as his sanctuary. You will be careful to do everything that they direct you to do.
+\v 10 Then you must do according to what they order you to do, at the place Yahweh will choose. Be careful to do all that they teach you.
 \v 11 Follow the law they teach you, and do according to the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right hand or to the left.
 
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-\v 4 This is the law for the one who kills another and who flees there to live—anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, and did not previously hate him.
+\v 4 This is the instruction concerning the one who kills another and flees from there in order to save his own life—the one who unintentionally kills his neighbor without hating him at the time of the accident.
 \v 5 For example, if a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his chops with the ax to cut down a tree, and the ax head slips off of the handle and strikes his neighbor and kills him—then that man must flee to one of these cities and save his life.
 
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 \v 12 then you will bring her home to your house; she will shave her head and cut her nails.
 
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-\v 13 Then she will take off the clothes she was wearing when she was taken captive and she will remain in your house and mourn for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may sleep with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
+\v 13 Then she will take off the clothes she was wearing when she was taken captive and she will remain in your house and mourn for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may lie with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
 \v 14 But if you take no delight in her, then you may let her go where she wishes. But you must not sell her at all for money, and you must not treat her like a slave, because you have humiliated her.
 
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-\v 13 Suppose a man takes a wife, sleeps with her, and then hates her,
+\v 13 Suppose a man takes a wife, and he goes in to her, and then hates her,
 \v 14 and then accuses her of shameful things and puts a bad reputation on her, and says, 'I took this woman, but when I came near to her, I found no proof of virginity in her.'
 
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-\v 22 If a man is found sleeping with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was sleeping with the woman and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from among you.
+\v 22 If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from among you.
 
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-\v 23 If there is a girl who is a virgin, engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her,
+\v 23 If there is a girl who is a virgin, engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,
 \v 24 take both of them to the city gate, and stone them to death. You must stone the girl, because she did not cry out, even though she was in the city. You must stone the man, because he violated his neighbor's wife; and you will remove the evil from among you.
 
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-\v 25 But if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and if he seizes her and sleeps with her, then only the man who sleeps with her must die.
+\v 25 But if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and if he seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her must die.
 \v 26 But to the girl you must do nothing; there is no sin worthy of death in the girl. For this case is like when a man attacks his neighbor and kills him.
 \v 27 For he found her in the field; the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.
 
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-\v 28 If a man finds a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and if he seizes her and sleeps with her, and if they are discovered,
+\v 28 If a man finds a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and if he seizes her and lies with her, and if they are discovered,
-\v 29 then the man who slept with her must give fifty shekels of silver to the girl's father, and she must become his wife, because he has humiliated her. He may not send her away during all his days.
+\v 29 then the man who lay with her must give fifty shekels of silver to the girl's father, and she must become his wife, because he has violated her. He may not send her away during all his days.
 
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 \v 11 You will stand outside, and the man to whom you have lent will bring the pledge outside to you.
 
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-\v 12 If he is a poor man, you must not sleep with his pledge in your possession.
+\v 12 If he is a poor man, you must not lie down to sleep with his pledge in your possession.
 \v 13 You must surely restore to him the pledge by the time the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; it will be righteousness for you before Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 5 If brothers live together and one of them dies, not having any son, then the wife of the dead man must not be married off to someone else outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must sleep with her and take her to himself as a wife, and do the duty of a husband's brother to her.
+\v 5 If brothers live together and one of them dies, not having any son, then the wife of the dead man must not be married off to someone else outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as a wife, and do the duty of a husband's brother to her.
 \v 6 This is so that the firstborn that she bears will succeed in the name of that man's dead brother, so that his name will not perish from Israel.
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 \v 20 'May the man be cursed who lies with his father's wife, because he has taken away his father's rights.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 21 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with any kind of beast.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 21 'May the man be cursed who lies with any kind of beast.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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-\v 22 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father, or with the daughter of his mother.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 22 'May the man be cursed who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or with the daughter of his mother.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
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-\v 23 'May the man be cursed who sleeps with his mother-in-law.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
+\v 23 'May the man be cursed who lies with his mother-in-law.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
 
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 \v 14 So when the people set out to cross over the Jordan, the priests that carried the ark of the covenant went ahead of the people.
 \v 15 As soon as those who were carrying the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of those who carried the chest were dipped in the edge of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of the harvest),
-\v 16 the waters that flowed down from upstream stood up in one heap. The water stopped flowing from a great distance. The waters stopped flowing from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, all the way down to the sea of the Negev, the Salt Sea. The people crossed over near Jericho.
+\v 16 the waters that flowed down from upstream stood up in one heap. The water stopped flowing from a great distance. The waters stopped flowing from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, all the way down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea. The people crossed over near Jericho.
 
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 \v 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
-\v 31 just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded the people of Israel, as it was written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "An altar from uncut stones, on which no one has wielded an iron tool." He offered on the altar burnt offerings to Yahweh, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
+\v 31 just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded the people of Israel, as it was written in the book of the law of Moses: "An altar from uncut stones, on which no one has wielded an iron tool." He offered on the altar burnt offerings to Yahweh, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
 \v 32 There, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.
 
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-\v 1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies that around them, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
+\v 1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies that were around them, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
 \v 2 Joshua called for all Israel—for their elders, for their leaders, for their judges, and for their officers—and he said to them, "I am very old.
 \v 3 You have seen everything that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.
 
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 \v 5 Yahweh your God will drive them out. He will push them out from you. He will seize their land, and you will take possession of their land, just as Yahweh your God promised to you.
 
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-\v 6 So be very strong, so that you keep and do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
+\v 6 So be very strong, so that you keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
 \v 7 so you may not mix with these nations that remain among you or mention the names of their gods, swear by them, worship them, or bow down to them.
 \v 8 Instead, you must cling to Yahweh your God just as you have done to this day.
 
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 \v 25 Joshua made a covenant with the people that day. He put in place decrees and laws at Shechem.
-\v 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. He took a large stone and set it up there beneath the oak tree that was beside Yahweh's sanctuary.
+\v 26 Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the law of God. He took a large stone and set it up there beneath the oak tree that was beside Yahweh's sanctuary.
 
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-\v 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech used it to hire men of lawless and reckless character, who followed him.
+\v 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech used the silver to hire worthless and reckless men, who traveled with him.
 
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 \v 8 The trees once went out to anoint a king over them. For they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
 
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-\v 9 But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I give up my oil, which is used to honor gods and mankind, so I may go return, just to sway over the other trees?'
+\v 9 But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I give up my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, to sway over the other trees?'
 \v 10 The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'
 \v 11 But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I give up my sweetness and my good fruit, just so I could return and sway over the other trees?'
 
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 \v 17 Then Ammonites gathered together and set up camp in Gilead. The Israelites came together and set up their camp at Mizpah.
 \v 18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight the Ammonites? He will become the leader over all those who are living in Gilead."
 
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 \v 1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was his father.
 \v 2 Gilead's wife also gave birth to his other sons. When his wife's sons grew up, they forced Jephthah to leave the house and said to him, "You are not going to inherit anything from our family. You are the son of another woman."
-\v 3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah and they came and went with him.
+\v 3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless men gathered around Jephthah and they traveled with him.
 
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 \v 34 Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah, and there his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. She was his only child, and besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
-\v 35 As soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Oh! My daughter! You have crushed me with sorrow, and you have become one who causes me pain! For I have made an oath to Yahweh, and I cannot turn back on my promise."
+\v 35 As soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Oh! My daughter! You have crushed me with sorrow, and you have become one who causes me pain! For I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I cannot turn back on my promise."
 
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-\v 39 At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did with her according to the promise of the vow he had made. Now she had never slept with a man, and it became a custom in Israel
+\v 39 At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did with her according to the promise of the vow he had made. Now she had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel
 \v 40 that the daughters of Israel every year, for four days, would retell the story of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
 
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 \v 10 The assembly sent twelve thousand of their bravest men with instructions to go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children.
 
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+\v 11 "Do this: Every male and every woman who has known a man by lying with him you will devote to destruction."
-\v 12 The men found among those living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh, in Canaan.
+\v 12 The men found among those living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had not known a man by lying with him, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.
 
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-\v 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. He slept with her, and Yahweh allowed her to become pregnant, and she bore a son.
+\v 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. He went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.
 \v 14 The women said to Naomi, "May Yahweh be blessed, who has not left you today without a near kinsman, this baby. May his name be famous in Israel.
 \v 15 May he be for you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."
 

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-\v 19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh, and then they returned again to their house in Ramah. Elkanah slept with Hannah his wife, and Yahweh called her to mind.
+\v 19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh, and then they returned again to their house in Ramah. Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and Yahweh remembered her.
 \v 20 When the time came, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked for him from Yahweh."
 
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-\v 22 Now Eli was very old; he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they slept with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
+\v 22 Now Eli was very old; he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they were lying with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 \v 23 He said to them, "Why do you such things? For I hear of your evil actions from all these people."
 \v 24 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear. You make Yahweh's people disobey.
 

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 \v 6 It came about during the war between the house of Saul and the house of David that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.
-\v 7 Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Why have you slept with my father's concubine?"
+\v 7 Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"
 
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 \v 8 Then Abner was very angry at the words of Ishbosheth and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I am showing faithfulness to the house of Saul, your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, by not delivering you into the hand of David. But now you accuse me of an offense concerning this woman?
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 \v 3 So David sent and he asked people who would know about the woman. Someone said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, and is she not the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
 
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-\v 4 David sent messengers and took her; she came in to him, and he slept with her (for she had just purified herself from menstruation). Then she returned to her house.
+\v 4 David sent messengers and took her; she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she had just purified herself from menstruation). Then she returned to her house.
 \v 5 The woman conceived, and she sent and told David; she said, "I am pregnant."
 
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 \v 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's palace with all the servants of his master, and he did not go down to his house.
 \v 10 When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
-\v 11 Uriah answered David, "The ark, and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my master's servants are camped in an open field. How then can I go into my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? As sure as you are alive, I will not do this."
+\v 11 Uriah answered David, "The ark, and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my master's servants are camped in an open field. How then can I go into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As sure as you are alive, I will not do this."
 
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 \v 10 So now the sword will never leave your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your wife.'
 
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-\v 11 Yahweh says, 'Look, I will raise up disaster against you out of your own house. Before your own eyes, I will take your wives and give them to your neighbor, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.
+\v 11 Yahweh says, 'Look, I will raise up disaster against you out of your own house. Before your own eyes, I will take your wives and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
 \v 12 For you committed your sin secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, in the sunlight.'"
 \v 13 Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan replied to David, "Yahweh also has passed over your sin. You will not be killed.
 
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-\v 24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and slept with her. Later she gave birth to a son, and the child was named Solomon. Yahweh loved him
+\v 24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. Later she gave birth to a son, and the child was named Solomon. Yahweh loved him
 \v 25 and he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah, because Yahweh loved him.
 
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-\v 11 When she had brought the food to him, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, sleep with me, my sister."
+\v 11 When she had brought the food to him, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."
 \v 12 She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me, for nothing like this should be done in Israel. Do not do this appalling thing!
 
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 \v 13 How could I be rid of my shame? What about you? You would be like one of the fools in Israel! Now, please speak to the king, for he would not keep me from you."
-\v 14 However Amnon would not listen to her. Since he was stronger than Tamar, he seized her and he slept with her.
+\v 14 However Amnon would not listen to her, and he was stronger than she was, and he overpowered her, and he lay with her.  
 
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 \v 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice about what we should do."
-\v 21 Ahithophel answered Absalom, "Go sleep with your father's slave wives whom he has left to keep the palace, and all Israel will hear that you have become a stench to your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
+\v 21 Ahithophel answered Absalom, "Go into your father's slave wives whom he has left to keep the palace, and all Israel will hear that you have become a stench to your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
 
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-\v 22 So they spread for Absalom a tent on the top of the palace, and Absalom slept with his father's slave wives in the sight of all Israel.
+\v 22 So they spread for Absalom a tent on the top of the palace, and Absalom went in to his father's slave wives in the sight of all Israel.
 \v 23 Now the advice of Ahithophel that he gave in those days was as if a man heard from the mouth of God himself. That was how all of Ahithophel's advice was viewed by both David and Absalom.
 
 
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 \v 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. As for Absalom, he crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
-\v 25 Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether the Ishmaelite \f + \ft Scholars disagree about whether the word describing Jether should be "Ishmaelite" as it is in some ancient Greek versions, or "Israelite" as it is in the ancient Hebrew text. Some scholars believe that "Israelite" is a scribal error in the Hebrew. "Ishmaelite" is the word used in a parallel passage (See: 1 Chron. 2:17), in both the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. \f*, who had slept with Abigail, who was the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.
+\v 25 Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether the Ishmaelite \f + \ft Scholars disagree about whether the word describing Jether should be "Ishmaelite" as it is in some ancient Greek versions, or "Israelite" as it is in the ancient Hebrew text. Some scholars believe that "Israelite" is a scribal error in the Hebrew. "Ishmaelite" is the word used in a parallel passage (See: 1 Chron. 2:17), in both the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. \f*, who went in to Abigail, who was the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.
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-\v 3 When David came to his palace at Jerusalem, he took the ten slave wives whom he had left to keep the palace, and he put them in a house under guard. He provided for their needs, but he did not sleep with them any longer. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living as if they were widows.
+\v 3 When David came to his palace at Jerusalem, he took the ten slave wives whom he had left to keep the palace, and he put them in a house under guard. He provided for their needs, but he did not lie with them any longer. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living as if they were widows.
 
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-\v 14 Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth Maacah, and through all the land of the Bikrites, who gathered together and also pursued Sheba.
+\v 14 Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth Maacah, and through all the land of the Bikrites, who gathered together and also pursued Sheba.
-\v 15 They caught up with him and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They built up a siege ramp against the city against the wall. All the army who were with Joab battered the wall to knock it down.
+\v 15 They caught up with him and besieged him in Abel Beth Maacah. They built up a siege ramp against the city against the wall. All the army who were with Joab battered the wall to knock it down.
 \v 16 Then a wise woman cried out of the city, "Listen, please listen, Joab! Come near me so I may speak with you."
 
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 \v 2 So his servants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin for our master the king. Let her serve the king and take care of him. Let her lie in his arms so that our master the king may keep warm."
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-\v 4 The girl was very beautiful. She served the king and took care of him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her.
+\v 4 The girl was very beautiful. She served the king and took care of him, but the king did not know her.
 
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 \v 19 "Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I have sent to you a gift of silver and gold. Break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, so that he may leave me alone."
 
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-\v 20 Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies, and they attacked the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel of Beth Maacah, and all Kinnereth, together with all the land of Naphtali.
+\v 20 Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies, and they attacked the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all Kinnereth, together with all the land of Naphtali.
 \v 21 It came about that when Baasha heard this, he stopped building up Ramah and went back to Tirzah.
 \v 22 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones and timbers of Ramah with which Baasha had been building up the city. Then King Asa used that building material to build up Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
 

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 \v 5 It came about that as soon as his rule was well established, he killed the servants who had murdered his father, the king.
 
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-\v 6 Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death; instead, he acted according to what was written in the Book of the Law Moses, as Yahweh had commanded, saying, "The fathers must not be put to death for their children, neither must the children be put to death for their parents. Instead, every person must be put to death for his own sin."
+\v 6 Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death; instead, he acted according to what was written in the book of the law Moses, as Yahweh had commanded, saying, "The fathers must not be put to death for their children, neither must the children be put to death for their parents. Instead, every person must be put to death for his own sin."
 \v 7 He killed ten thousand soldiers of Edom in the Valley of Salt; he also took Sela in war and called it Joktheel, which is what it is called to this day.
 
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-\v 21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
+\v 21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."
 \v 22 Such a Passover celebration had never been held from the days of the judges who ruled Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel or Judah.
 \v 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover of Yahweh was celebrated in Jerusalem.
 

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-\v 24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb slept with Ephrathah, the wife of his father Hezron. She bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
+\v 24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of his father Hezron. She bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
 \f + \ft Some versions read, \fqa After Hezron's death in Caleb Ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore him a son, Ashhur the father of Tekoa \fqa* . \f*
 
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 \v 22 Ephraim their father mourned for them many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
 
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-\v 23 He slept with his wife. She conceived and bore a son. Ephraim called him Beriah, because tragedy had come to his family.)
+\v 23 He went in to his wife. She conceived and bore a son. Ephraim called him Beriah, because tragedy had come to his family.)
 \v 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah.
 
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 \v 3 "Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I have sent to you silver and gold. Break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may leave me alone."
 
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-\v 4 Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
+\v 4 Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim \f + \ft The place named Abel Maim is the same as Abel Beth Maacah, see 2 Sam. 20:14-15. \f* , and all the storage cities of Naphtali. 
 \v 5 It came about that when Baasha heard this, he stopped building up Ramah, and let his work cease.
 \v 6 Then Asa the king took all Judah with him. They carried away the stones and timbers of Ramah with which Baasha had been building up the city. Then King Asa used that building material to build up Geba and Mizpah.
 
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-\v 4 But he did not put the children of the murderers to death, but acted according to what was written in the law, in the Book of Moses, as Yahweh had commanded, "The fathers must not die for the children, nor must the children die for the fathers. Instead, every person must die for his own sin."
+\v 4 But he did not put the children of the murderers to death, but acted according to what was written in the law, in the book of Moses, as Yahweh had commanded, "The fathers must not die for the children, nor must the children die for the fathers. Instead, every person must die for his own sin."
 
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 \v 17 They offered one hundred bulls, one hundred rams, and four hundred lambs for the dedication of God's house. Twelve male goats were also offered as a sin offering for all Israel, one for each tribe in Israel.
-\v 18 They also assigned the priests and Levites to work divisions for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it was written in the Book of Moses.
+\v 18 They also assigned the priests and Levites to work divisions for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it was written in the book of Moses.
 
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-\v 1 All the people gathered as one man in the open area in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.
+\v 1 All the people gathered as one man in the open area in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.
 \v 2 On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear and understand.
 \v 3 He faced the open area in front of the Water Gate, and he read from it from early morning until midday, before men and women, and any who could understand, and all the people listened attentively to the book of the law.
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 \v 20 When the king's decree is proclaimed throughout all his vast kingdom, all the wives will honor their husbands, from the greatest to the least significant."
 
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-\v 21 The king and his noblemen were pleased with this advice, and the king did as Memukan proposed.
+\v 21 The king and his princes were pleased with this advice, and the king did as Memukan proposed.
 \v 22 He sent out letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own writing, and to each people in their own language. He ordered that every man should be master of his own household. This decree was given in the language of each people in the empire.
 
 

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 \v 22 It throws itself at him and does not stop;
 \q he tries to flee out of its hand.
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-\v 23 It claps its hands at him in mockery;
+\v 23 It claps its hands at him  
-\q it hisses him out of his place.
+\q and hisses him from his place.
 
 
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-\q a mediator, one from among the thousands of angels,
+\q one out of a thousand,
-\q to show him what is right to do,
+\q to tell a man what is right for him,
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-\v 24 and if the angel is kind to him and says to God,
+\v 24 to be gracious to him and say,
 \q 'Save this person from going down to the pit;
-\q I have found a ransom for him,'
+\q I have found a ransom for him.'
 
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-\v 25 then his flesh will become fresher than a child's;
+\v 25 Then his flesh will become fresher than a child's;
-\q he will return to the days of his youthful strength.
+\q it is restored to the days of his youth.
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-\v 25 For we have melted away into the dust;
+\v 25 For we have sunk down into the dust;
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 \q I will show God's salvation."
 
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-\d For the chief musician. A psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had slept with Bathsheba.
+\d For the chief musician. A psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
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 \v 1 Have mercy on me, God, because of your covenant faithfulness;
 \q for the sake of the multitude of your merciful actions, blot out my transgressions.
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 \v 1 Praise Yahweh.
-\q Blessed is the man who obeys Yahweh,
+\q Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
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+\v 18 For her house sinks down to death,
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-\v 29 So is the man who sleeps with his neighbor's wife;
+\v 29 So is the man who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
-\q the one who sleeps with her will not go unpunished.
+\q the one who touches her will not go unpunished.
 
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 \v 4 I want you to swear, daughters of Jerusalem,
-\q that you will not interrupt our lovemaking
+\q that you will not stir up or awaken love 
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-\v 19 They will say to you, "Consult with the mediums and spiritists," those who chirp and mutter incantations. But should a people not consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
+\v 19 They will say to you, "Consult with the those who speak with the dead and with spirits," the ones who chirp and mutter incantations. But should a people not consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
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 \v 18 For I know their deeds and their thoughts. The time is coming when I will gather all nations and languages. They will come and will see my glory.
 \f + \ft This verse is very difficult, and modern versions provide various interpretations. \f*
-\v 19 I will set a mighty sign among them. Then I will send survivors from them to the nations: To Tarshish, Put, and Lud, archers who draw their bows, to Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands where they have not heard about me nor seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.
+\v 19 I will set a sign among them. Then I will send survivors from them to the nations: To Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands where they have not heard about me nor seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.
 
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 \v 2 "Arise and go out to the potter's house, for I will have you hear my word there."
 \v 3 So I went out to the potter's house, and behold! The potter was working on the potter's wheel.
-\v 4 But the object of clay that he was molding was ruined in his hand, so he changed his mind and made another object that seemed good in his eyes to do.
+\v 4 But the pot he was making from the clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, so he returned the clay and formed it into another pot, and he made that pot an object that was pleasing in his eyes.  
 
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 \v 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness.
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-\v 20 I continually remember it and I am bowed down within me.
+\v 20 I continually remember it and my soul is bowed down within me.
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 \v 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me. So all the house of Israel is strong browed and hard hearted.
 
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+\v 8 Behold! I have made your face as hard as their faces and your brow as hard as their brows.
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-\v 24 you built yourself a vaulted chamber in every public place.
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-\v 31 You have built your high places at the head of every street and made your vaulted chamber in every public place. Yet you were not like a prostitute because you refused to take payment.
+\v 31 You have built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square. Yet you were not like a prostitute because you scoffed at taking payment.
 
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 \v 33 People give payment to every prostitute, but you give your wages to all your lovers and bribe them to come to you from all around for your acts of prostitution.
-\v 34 So there is a difference between you and those other women, since no one goes to you to ask you to sleep with them. Instead, you pay them. No one pays you.
+\v 34 So there is a difference between you and other women. No one offers payment for you to act as a prostitute. You are the very opposite. You gave them payment and none was given to you. 
 
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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 8 For she had not left her prostitute behavior behind in Egypt, when they had lain with her when she had been a young girl, when they caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon 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 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 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 be with a prostitute. In this way they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, who were immoral women.
+\v 44 They went in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. In this way they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, 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 4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
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-\v 5 They have made all your planks with cypress from Mount Hermon;
+\v 5 They have made all your planks with cypress from Senir;
-\q they took cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
+\q they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
 
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 \v 24 In a dispute they will stand to judge with my decrees; they must be just. They will keep my law and my statutes in every feast, and they will celebrate my holy Sabbaths.
 
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-\v 25 They will not go to a dead person so as to become unclean, unless it is their father or mother, son or daughter, brother or a sister who has not slept with a man; otherwise, they will become unclean.
+\v 25 They must not defile themselves by going near to a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then they may defile themselves.
 \v 26 After a priest has become unclean, they will count off a period of seven days for him.
 \v 27 On the day he enters the holy place, into the inner courtyard to serve in the holy place, he must bring a sin offering for himself—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 
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 \v 29 They will eat the food offerings, the sin offerings, the guilt offerings, and everything devoted to Yahweh in Israel, will be theirs.
 
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-\v 30 The best of the firstfruits of all things and every contribution, anything from all of your contributions will belong to the priests, and you will give the best of your meal offerings to the priests so that blessing may rest on your house.
+\v 30 The best of the firstfruits of all things and every contribution, anything from all of your contributions will belong to the priests, and you will give the first of your dough to the priests so that blessing may rest on your house.
 \v 31 The priests will not eat any carcass or animal torn by a beast, whether bird or beast.
 
 

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 \v 7 They trample on the heads of the poor as people trample on dust on the ground;
 \q they push the oppressed away.
-\q A man and his father sleep with the same girl
+\q A man and his father go in to the same girl
 \q and so profane my holy name.
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 \v 1 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
 \v 2 "Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I command you to give."
-\v 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of three days' journey.
+\v 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of three days' journey.
 
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 \q 'Let us quickly go to beg before the face of Yahweh 
 \q and to seek Yahweh of hosts! We ourselves are also going.'
 \q 
-\v 22 Many people and mighty nations will come to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem 
+\v 22 Many people and mighty nations will come to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem
 \q and beg for the favor of Yahweh!
 
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+\p
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-\v 23 Yahweh of hosts says this: In those days 
+\v 23 Yahweh of hosts says this: In those days
-\q ten men from every language and nation 
+\q ten men from every language and nation
-\q will grasp the hem of your robe and say, 
+\q will grasp the hem of your robe and say,
 \q 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!'"
 
 

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-\v 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts. "But you say, 'How will we return?'
+\v 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts. "But you say, 'How will we return?'
 
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 \v 8 Would a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

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 \v 14 Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud.
 
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-\v 15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob.
+\v 15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan was the father of Jacob.
 \v 16 Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
 \v 17 All the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
 
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 \v 24 Joseph woke up from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and he took her as his wife.
-\v 25 But he did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. Then he called his name Jesus.
+\v 25 But he did not know her until she gave birth to a son. Then he called his name Jesus.
 
 
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 \v 7 Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, 'You must not test the Lord your God.'"
-\v 8 Again, the devil took him up to a very high hill and showed him all the kingdoms of the world along with all their splendor.
+\v 8 Again, the devil took him up to a very high hill and showed him all the kingdoms of the world along with all their glory.
 \v 9 He said to him, "All these things I will give you, if you fall down and worship me."
 
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-\v 23 Jesus went about in all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness among the people.
+\v 23 Jesus went about in all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness among the people.
 \v 24 The news about him went out into all of Syria, and the people brought to him all those who were sick, ill with various diseases and pains, those possessed by demons, and the epileptic and paralytic. Jesus healed them.
 \v 25 Large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
 
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-\v 10 As Jesus sat down to eat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinful people came and dined with Jesus and his disciples.
+\v 10 As Jesus sat down to eat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and dined with Jesus and his disciples.
-\v 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinful people?"
+\v 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
 
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-\v 35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages. He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and all kinds of sickness.
+\v 35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages. He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and all kinds of sickness.
 \v 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were troubled and discouraged. They were like sheep without a shepherd.
 
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 \v 4 Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you see and hear.
-\v 5 Blind people are receiving sight, lame people are walking, lepers are being cleansed, deaf people are hearing again, people who have died are being raised back to life, and needy people are being told the good news.
+\v 5 The blind are receiving sight, the lame are walking, lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing again, the dead are being raised back to life, and good news is preached to the poor.
 \v 6 Blessed is anyone who is not offended by me."
 
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 \v 13 For all the prophets and the law have been prophesying until John;
 \v 14 and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who was to come.
-\v 15 He who has ears to hear, let him listen.
+\v 15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
 
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 \v 7 Other seeds fell among the thorn plants. The thorn plants grew up and choked them.
 \v 8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced a crop, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
-\v 9 He who has ears, let him listen."
+\v 9 He who has ears, let him hear."
 
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 \v 40 Therefore, as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
 \v 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the things that cause sin and those who commit iniquity.
 \v 42 They will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
-\v 43 Then will the righteous people shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him listen.
+\v 43 Then will the righteous people shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
 
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 \v 27 She said, "Yes, Lord, but even the little dogs eat some of the crumbs that fall from their masters' tables."
-\v 28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, "Woman, great is your faith; let it be done for you just as you wish." At that hour her daughter was healed.
+\v 28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, "Woman, great is your faith; let it be done for you just as you wish." Her daughter was healed from that hour.
 
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 \v 12 Because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold.
 \v 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
-\v 14 This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations. Then the end will come.
+\v 14 This good news of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations. Then the end will come.
 
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 \v 12 For when she poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
-\v 13 Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."
+\v 13 Truly I say to you, wherever this good news is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."
 
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-\v 1 This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
+\v 1 This is the beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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 \v 2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,
 \q "Look, I am sending my messenger before your face,
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-\v 14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God.
+\v 14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the good news of God.
-\v 15 He said, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel."
+\v 15 He said, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news.
 
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 \v 26 The unclean spirit threw him down and went out from him while crying out with a loud voice.
 
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-\v 27 All the people were amazed, so they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority? He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him!"
+\v 27 All the people were amazed, so they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him!"
 \v 28 The news about him went out everywhere into the whole region of Galilee.
 
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 \v 7 "How can this man speak this way? He blasphemes! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
 
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-\v 8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit what they were thinking among themselves. He said to them, "Why are you thinking this in your hearts?
+\v 8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit what they were thinking within themselves. He said to them, "Why are you thinking this in your hearts?
 \v 9 What is easier to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven' or to say 'Get up, take up your bed, and walk'?
 
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-\v 15 Jesus was having a meal in Levi's house and many tax collectors and sinful people were dining with him and his disciples, for there were many and they followed him.
+\v 15 Jesus was having a meal in Levi's house and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with him and his disciples, for there were many and they followed him.
-\v 16 When the scribes, who were Pharisees, saw that Jesus was eating with the sinful people and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinful people?"
+\v 16 When the scribes, who were Pharisees, saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
 
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-\v 17 When Jesus heard this he said to them, "People who are strong in body do not need a physician; only people who are sick need one. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinful people."
+\v 17 When Jesus heard this he said to them, "People who are strong in body do not need a physician; only people who are sick need one. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
 
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 \v 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and in those days, they will fast.
-\v 21 No man sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment, otherwise the patch will tear away from it, the new from the old, and there will be a worse tear.
+\v 21 No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment, otherwise the patch will tear away from it, the new from the old, and there will be a worse tear.
 
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-\v 22 No man puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the skins and both the wine and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, put new wine into fresh wineskins."
+\v 22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the skins and both the wine and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, put new wine into fresh wineskins."
 
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 \v 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.
 
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-\v 26 But concerning the dead that are raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God spoke to him and said, 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?
+\v 26 But concerning the dead that are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God spoke to him and said, 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?
 \v 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite mistaken."
 
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 \v 5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zechariah, from the division of Abijah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
-\v 6 They were both righteous before God, obeying all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
+\v 6 They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
 \v 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old by this time.
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 \v 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David.
 \v 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end to his kingdom."
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-\v 34 Mary said to the angel, "How will this happen, since I have not slept with any man?"
+\v 34 Mary said to the angel, "How will this happen, since I have not known any man?"
 \v 35 The angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will come over you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
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 \v 5 Then the devil led Jesus up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant of time.
-\v 6 The devil said to him, "I will give to you all this authority and all their splendor, for they have been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want.
+\v 6 The devil said to him, "I will give to you all this authority and all their glory, for they have been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want.
 \v 7 So then, if you will bow down and worship me, it will be yours."
 
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 \v 25 But in truth I tell you that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, and a great famine came upon all the land.
 \v 26 But Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in Sidon, to a widow living there.
 \v 27 There were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet, but none of them were healed except Naaman the Syrian."
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 \v 29 They got up, forced him out of the town, and led him to the cliff of the hill on which their town was built, so they might throw him off the cliff.
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 \v 29 Then Levi gave a big banquet in his house for Jesus. There were many tax collectors there and other people who were reclining at the table and eating with them.
-\v 30 But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and other sinful people?"
+\v 30 But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
 \v 31 Jesus answered them, "People who are well do not need a physician; only those who are sick.
-\v 32 I did not come to call righteous people to repentance, but to call sinners to repentance."
+\v 32 I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
 
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 \v 7 Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up together with the seed and choked it.
-\v 8 But some fell on good soil and produced a crop that was a hundred times greater." After Jesus had said these things, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
+\v 8 But some fell on good soil and produced a crop that was a hundred times greater." After Jesus had said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
 
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 \v 30 Behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah,
-\v 31 who appeared in glorious splendor. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to completion in Jerusalem.
+\v 31 who appeared in glory, talking with him about his departure, which he was about to bring to completion in Jerusalem.
 
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 \v 15 He said to them, "You justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. That which is exalted among men is detestable in the sight of God.
 
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-\v 16 The law and the prophets were in effect until John came. From that time on, the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone tries to force their way into it.
+\v 16 The law and the prophets were in effect until John came. From that time on, the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone tries to force their way into it.
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-\v 44 He said to them, "When I was with you, I told you that all that was written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
+\v 44 He said to them, "When I was with you, I told you that all that was written in the law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
 
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-\v 53 \f + \ft The best ancient copies omit Jhn. 7:53-8:11 \f* [Then everyone went to his own house.
+\v 53 \f + \ft The best ancient copies omit John 7:53-8:11. \f* [Then everyone went to his own house.
 
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-\v 1 \f + \ft See the note about Jhn. 7:53-8:11 above \f* Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
+\v 1 \f + \ft See the note about John 7:53-8:11 above. \f* Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
 \v 2 Early in the morning he came to the temple again, and all the people came; he sat down and taught them.
 \v 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery. They placed her in the middle.
 
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-\v 4 \f + \ft See the note about John 7:53-8:11 above \f* Then they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
+\v 4 \f + \ft See the note about John 7:53-8:11 above. \f* Then they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
 \v 5 Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such people; what do you say about her?"
 \v 6 They said this in order to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him about, but Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
 
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-\v 7 \f + \ft See the note about Jhn. 7:53-8:11 above \f* When they continued asking him questions, he stood up and said to them, "The one among you who has no sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
+\v 7 \f + \ft See the note about John 7:53-8:11 above. \f* When they continued asking him questions, he stood up and said to them, "The one among you who has no sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
 \v 8 Again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
 
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-\v 9 \f + \ft See the note about Jhn. 7:53-8:11 above \f* When they heard it, they left one by one, beginning with the oldest. Finally Jesus was left alone, with the woman who had been in the middle.
+\v 9 \f + \ft See the note about John 7:53-8:11 above. \f* When they heard it, they left one by one, beginning with the oldest. Finally Jesus was left alone, with the woman who had been in the middle.
 \v 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
 \v 11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more."]
 
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 \v 1 "Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.
-\v 2 In the house of my Father are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.
+\v 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.
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 \v 1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in the same place.
 \v 2 Suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
 \v 3 There appeared to them tongues like fire that were distributed, and they sat upon each one of them.
-\v 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them to speak.
+\v 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit enabled them.
 
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 \v 1 As Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them.
 \v 2 They were deeply troubled because Peter and John were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
-\v 3 They arrested them and put them in jail until the next morning, since it was now evening.
+\v 3 They arrested them and put them in custody until the next morning, since it was now evening.
 \v 4 But many of the people who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men who believed was about five thousand.
 
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 \v 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees); and they were filled with jealousy
-\v 18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the public jail.
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 \v 41 They left the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.
-\v 42 Thereafter every day, in the temple and from house to house, they were continuously teaching and proclaiming Jesus as the Christ.
+\v 42 Thereafter every day, in the temple and from house to house, they were continuously teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.
 
 
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-\v 4 Yet the believers who had been scattered went about proclaiming the word.
+\v 4 Yet the believers who had been scattered went about proclaiming the good news of the word.
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 \v 6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region,
-\v 7 and there they were proclaiming the gospel.
+\v 7 where they continued to proclaim the good news.
 
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 \v 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came and persuaded the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead.
 \v 20 Yet as the disciples were standing around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day, he went to Derbe with Barnabas.
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-\v 21 After they had proclaimed the gospel in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.
+\v 21 After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.
 \v 22 They kept strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, saying, "We must enter into the kingdom of God through many sufferings."
 
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 \v 33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent away in peace from the brothers to those who had sent them.
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-\v 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch along with many others, where they taught and proclaimed the word of the Lord.
+\v 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming (along with many others) the word of the Lord.
 
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 \v 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and others who worshiped God, as well as in the marketplace with those who happened to be there. 
 
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-\v 18 But also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others said, "He seems to be one who calls people to follow strange gods," because he was proclaiming Jesus and the resurrection.
+\v 18 But also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others said, "He seems to be one who calls people to follow strange gods," because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
 
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 \v 13 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready, not only to be tied up, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
-\v 14 Since Paul did not wish to be persuaded, we stopped trying and said, "May the will of the Lord be done."
+\v 14 Since Paul would not be persuaded, we remained silent and then we said, "May the will of the Lord be done."
 
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 \v 22 Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, ajourned the hearing. He said, "When Lysias the commander comes down from Jerusalem, I will decide your case."
-\v 23 Then he commanded the centurion that Paul should be kept under guard, but to have some freedom so that none of his friends would be prevented from attending to his needs.
+\v 23 Then he commanded the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, but to have some freedom so that none of his friends would be prevented from attending to his needs.
 
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-\v 16 But they did not all listen to the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?"
+\v 16 But not all of them obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?"
 \v 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
 
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-\v 1 We heard a report that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is not even permitted among the Gentiles. The report is that one of you is sleeping with his father's wife.
+\v 1 We heard a report that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is not even permitted among the Gentiles: A man has his father's wife. 
 \v 2 You are so arrogant! Should you not mourn instead? The one who did this must be removed from among you.
 
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-\v 1 Now I remind you, brothers, of the gospel I proclaimed to you, which you received and on which you stand.
+\v 1 Now I remind you, brothers, of the gospel I proclaimed to you, which you received and on which you stand, 
-\v 2 It is by this gospel that you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
+\v 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
 
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-\v 6 I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly from him who called you by the grace of Christ. I am amazed that you are turning to a different gospel.
+\v 6 I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly from him who called you by the grace of Christ. I am amazed that you are turning to a different gospel,
-\v 7 This is not to say that there is another gospel, but there are some men who cause you trouble and want to change the gospel of Christ.
+\v 7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some men who cause you trouble and want to change the gospel of Christ.
 
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 \v 15 But when God, who had set me apart from my mother's womb, and who called me through his grace,
-\v 16 was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I would proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood.
+\v 16 was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood.
 \v 17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me. Instead, I went to Arabia and then returned to Damascus.
 
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 \v 22 I was still not personally known to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
 \v 23 They only heard it being said, "The man who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy."
 \v 24 So they glorified God because of me.
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 \v 30 But what does the scripture say? "Send away the slave girl and her son. For the son of the slave girl will not share in the inheritance with the son of the free woman."
 \v 31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a slave girl, but of the free woman.
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 \v 7 For I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God's grace given to me through the working of his power.
 
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-\v 8 This grace was given to me, although I am the least of all the saints, that I should proclaim to the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ,
+\v 8 To me—although I am the least of all the saints—this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
 \v 9 so that I will bring to light for everyone the plan—the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.
 
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-\v 1 If there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any comfort from his love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if there are any tender mercies and compassions,
+\v 1 If there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any comfort provided by love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there are any tender mercies and compassions,
 \v 2 then make my joy full by thinking alike, having the same love, being united in spirit, and having the same purpose.
 
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 \v 21 For they all seek their own interests, not the things of Jesus Christ.
 
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-\v 22 But you know his worth, because as a child serves his father, so he served with me in the gospel.
+\v 22 But you know his worth, because as a son with his father, so he served with me in the gospel.
 \v 23 So I hope to send him as soon as I see how things will go with me.
 \v 24 But I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.
 

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 \v 8 Instead, let us be satisfied with food and clothing.
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 \v 9 Now those who want to become wealthy fall into temptation, into a trap. They fall into many foolish and harmful passions, and into whatever else makes people sink into ruin and destruction.
-\v 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people who desire it have been mislead away from the faith and have pierced themselves with much grief.
+\v 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people who desire it have been misled away from the faith and have pierced themselves with much grief.
 
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-\v 6 Therefore, because it is still reserved for some to enter his rest, and since many Israelites who heard the good news did not enter it because of disobedience,
+\v 6 Therefore, because it still remains that some will enter his rest, and those who previously had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. 
 \v 7 God has again set a certain day calling it "Today." After many days, he spoke through David, as it was earlier said,
 \q "Today if you hear his voice,
 \q do not harden your hearts."
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 \v 15 What we say is clearer yet if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek.
 \v 16 It was not based on the law of fleshly descent that he became a priest, but instead was based on the power of an everlasting life.
 \v 17 For scripture witnesses about him:
-\q "You are a priest forever
+\q "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
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 \v 25 but the word of the Lord remains forever."
-\m This is the good news that was announced to you.
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-\v 5 But whoever keeps his word, truly, in him truly the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him:
+\v 5 But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him:
 \v 6 whoever says that he remains in God should himself also walk just as he walked.
 
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 \v 19 Therefore write down what you have seen, what is now, and what will take place after this.
 \v 20 As for the hidden meaning about the seven stars you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches."
 
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 \v 6 But you have this: You hate what the Nicolaitans have done, which I also hate.
-\v 7 Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."'"
+\v 7 Let the one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."'"
 
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 \v 10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look! The devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you will be tested, and you will suffer for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
-\v 11 Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death."'"
+\v 11 Let the one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death."'"
 
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 \v 28 Just as I have received from my Father, I will also give him the morning star.
-\v 29 Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."'"
+\v 29 Let the one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches."'"
 
 
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-\v 6 Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."'"
+\v 6 Let the one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches."'"
 
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 \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.
+\v 12 The one who conquers, I will make 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.
-\v 13 Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."'"
+\v 13 Let the one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches."'"
 
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 \v 8 The four living creatures each had six wings, full of eyes on top and underneath. Night and day they do not stop saying,
-\q "Holy, holy, holy
+\q "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,
-\q is the Lord God Almighty
+\q who was, and who is, and who is to come."
-\q2 who was, and who is, and who is to come."
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 \v 6 He swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and all that is in it, the earth and all that is on it, and the sea and all that is in it, and the angel said, "There will be no more delay.
-\v 7 But on the day when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, then the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he proclaimed to his servants the prophets."
+\v 7 But on the day when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, then the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he proclaimed good news to his servants the prophets."
 
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-\v 6 I saw another angel flying in midair, who had the eternal message of good news to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
+\v 6 I saw another angel flying in midair, who had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
 \v 7 He called out with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory. For the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him, the one who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of water."
 
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-\v 24 The nations will walk by the light of that city. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. \f + \ft Some older copies read, \fqa The nations that are saved will walk by the light of that city \fqa* . \f*
+\v 24 The nations will walk by the light of that city. The kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. \f + \ft Some older copies read, \fqa The nations that are saved will walk by the light of that city \fqa* . \f*
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+\v 26 They will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it,
 \v 27 but nothing unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.