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 \v 33 For a place of burning was prepared long ago. Indeed, it is prepared for the king, and God has made it deep and wide.
 \q1 The pile is ready with a fire and much wood.
-\q1 The breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, will set it on fire.
+\q1 The breath of Yahweh, like a stream of burning sulfur, will set it on fire.
 
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 \v 1 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him.
 
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-\v 2 They saw that some of his disciples ate bread with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
+\v 2 They saw that some of his disciples ate bread with hands that were unclean, that is, unwashed.
 \v 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, because they hold to the tradition of the elders.
 \v 4 When the Pharisees come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they bathe themselves, and they hold to many other things they have received, such as the washing of cups, pots, copper vessels, and the couches upon which they eat.)
 
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-\v 5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
+\v 5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?"
 
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-\v 8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold fast to the tradition of men."
+\v 8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold on to the tradition of men."
 \v 9 He also said to them, "How well you reject the commandment of God so you may keep your tradition!
-\v 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of his father or mother will surely die.'
+\v 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of his father or mother will surely be put to death.'
 
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-\v 11 But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you would have received from me is Corban"' (that is to say, 'Given to God'),
+\v 11 But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you would have received from me is Corban"' (that is to say, 'a Gift'),
 \v 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother.
 \v 13 You are making the word of God void by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do."
 
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 \v 17 Now when Jesus left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
-\v 18 Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever enters into a person from outside cannot defile him,
+\v 18 Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters into a person from outside cannot defile him,
 \v 19 because it cannot go into his heart, but it goes into his stomach and then passes out into the latrine?" With this statement Jesus declared all foods clean.
 
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 \v 16 The disciples were arguing with one another about having no bread.
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-\v 17 When he understood this, he asked them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand?  Do you have hearts unwilling to hear?
+\v 17 When he understood this, he asked them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand?  Do you have hardened hearts?
 
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 \v 18 You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear? Do you not remember?
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 \v 22 They came to Bethsaida. The people there brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
-\v 23 Jesus took hold of the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"
+\v 23 Jesus took hold of the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"
 
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 \v 31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and would be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and would be killed, and after three days rise up.
-\v 32 He spoke that message clearly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
+\v 32 He spoke that message openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
 
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 \v 33 But Jesus turned and looked at his disciples and then he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! You are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of people."