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 \v 7 If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she must not go free as the male servants do.
-\v 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be bought back. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people. He has no such right, since he has treated her deceitfully.
+\v 8 If she does not please her master, who has selected her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people. He has no such right, since he has treated her deceitfully.
 
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-\v 9 If her master designates her as a wife for his son, he must treat her the same as if she were his daughter.
+\v 9 If her master selects her as a wife for his son, he must treat her the same as if she were his daughter.
 \v 10 If he takes another wife for himself, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or her marital rights.
 \v 11 But if he does not provide these three things for her, then she can go free without paying any money.
 
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 \v 12 Whoever strikes a man so that he dies, that person must surely be put to death.
 \v 13 If the man did not do it with premeditation, but instead by accident, then I will fix a place to where he can flee.
-\v 14 If a man willfully attacks his neighbor and kills him according to a cunning plan, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.
+\v 14 If a man arrogantly attacks his neighbor and kills him cleverly, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.
 
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 \v 18 If men fight and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist, and that person does not die, but is confined to his bed;
-\v 19 then if he recovers and is able to walk about using his staff, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time; he must also pay for his complete recovery. But that man is not guilty of murder.
+\v 19 then if he recovers and is able to walk about using his staff, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time; he must also see that he is completely healed. But that man is not guilty of murder.
 
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 \v 20 If a man hits his male servant or his female servant with a staff, and if the servant dies as a result of the blow, then that man must surely be punished.
-\v 21 However, if the servant lives for a day or two, the master must not be punished, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
+\v 21 However, if the servant lives for a day or two, there is to be no vengeance, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
 
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 \v 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its flesh must not be eaten; but the ox's owner must be acquitted of guilt.
 \v 29 But if the ox had a habit of goring in the past, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and the ox has killed a man or a woman, that ox must be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death.
-\v 30 If a payment is required for his life, he must pay whatever he is required to pay.
+\v 30 If a ransom is required for his life, he must pay for the redemption of his life whatever he is required to pay.
 
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 \v 31 If the ox has gored a man's son or daughter, the ox's owner must do what this decree requires him to do.
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 \v 1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, then he must pay five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
-\v 2 If a thief is found breaking in, and if he is struck so that he dies, in that case no guilt for murder will attach to anyone on his account.
+\v 2 If a thief is found breaking in, and if he is struck so that he dies, in that case no bloodguilt will attach to anyone on his account.
-\v 3 But if the sun has risen before he breaks in, guilt for murder will attach to the person who kills him.
+\v 3 But if the sun has risen before he breaks in, bloodguilt will attach to the person who kills him.
 \p A thief must make restitution. If he has nothing, then he must be sold for his theft.
 \v 4 If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox, a donkey, or a sheep, he must pay back double.
 
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 \v 7 If a man gives money or goods to his neighbor for safe keeping, and if it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, that thief must pay double.
 \v 8 But if the thief is not found, then the owner of the house must come before the judges to see whether he has put his own hand on his neighbor's property.
-\v 9 For every dispute about something, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, "This belongs to me," the claim of both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
+\v 9 For every transgression, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, "This belongs to me," the claim of both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
 
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-\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 16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, 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 25 If you lend money to any of my people among you who are poor, you must not be like a moneylender to him or charge him interest.
 \v 26 If you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun goes down,
-\v 27 for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. What else can he lie down in? When he calls out to me, I will hear him, for I am compassionate.
+\v 27 for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. What else can he lie down in? When he calls out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.
 
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-\v 1 You must not give a false report about anyone. Do not join with a wicked man to be a dishonest witness.
+\v 1 You must not give a false report about anyone. Do not join with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
-\v 2 You must not follow a crowd to do evil, nor may you bear witness while siding with the crowd in order to pervert justice.
+\v 2 You must not follow a crowd to do evil, and you must not bear witness in a dispute while siding with the crowd in order to pervert justice.
 \v 3 You must not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
 
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 \v 10 For six years you will sow seed on your land and gather in its produce.
-\v 11 But in the seventh year you will leave it unplowed and fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. What they leave, the wild animals will eat. You will do the same with your vineyards and olive orchards.
+\v 11 But in the seventh year you will let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. What they leave, the wild animals will eat. You will do the same with your vineyards and olive orchards.
 
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 \v 12 During six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Do this so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and so that your female slave's son and any foreigner may rest and be refreshed.
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 \v 26 No woman will be barren or will miscarry her young in your land. I will give you long lives.
-\v 27 I will send fear of myself on those into whose land you advance. I will kill all the people whom you meet. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in fright.
+\v 27 I will send my terror before you, and will throw into confusion all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
 \v 28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
-\v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become abandoned, and the wild animals would become too many for you.
+\v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become desolate, and the wild animals would become too many for you.
 
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 \v 30 Instead, I will drive them out little by little from before you until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
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 \v 4 Then Moses wrote down all of Yahweh's words. Early in the morning, Moses built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve stone pillars, so that the stones would represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
 
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-\v 5 He sent some young men from among the people of Israel to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice fellowship offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
+\v 5 He sent some young men from among the people of Israel to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
 \v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it into basins; he sprinkled the other half onto the altar.
 
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