working through more Bob Johnson reports

26-EZK/29.usfm

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 \v 8 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Behold! I will bring a sword against you. I will cut off both man and beast from you.
 \v 9 So the land of Egypt will become desolate and a ruin. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, because the sea monster had said, "The river is mine, for I have made it."
-\v 9 So the land of Egypt will become desolate and a ruin. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, because the sea monster had said, "The river is mine, for I have made it."
 \v 10 Therefore, behold! I am against you and against your river, so I will give the land of Egypt over to desolation and waste, and you will become a wasteland from the Migdol to Syene and the borders of Cush.
 
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45-ACT/16.usfm

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-\v 35 Now when it was day, the magistrates sent word to the guards saying, "Let those men go."
+\v 35 Now when it was day, the magistrates sent word to the guards, saying, "Let those men go."
 \v 36 The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent word to me to let you go: now therefore come out, and go in peace."
 
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-\v 37 But Paul said to them, "They have publicly beaten us, men who are uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now drive us out secretly? No indeed; let them come themselves and bring us out."
+\v 37 But Paul said to them, "They have publicly beaten us without a trial, even through we are Romans citizens—and they threw us into prison. Do they now want to send us away secretly? No! Let them come themselves and lead us out."
-\v 38 The guards reported these words to the magistrates; the magistrates were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Romans.
+\v 38 The guards reported these words to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Romans, they were afraid.
-\v 39 The magistrates came and begged them; and when they had brought them out of prison, they asked Paul and Silas to leave the city.
+\v 39 The magistrates came and apologized to them and brought them out, asking them  them to go away from the city.
 
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 \v 40 So Paul and Silas went out of the prison and came to the house of Lydia. When Paul and Silas saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed from the city.

45-ACT/17.usfm

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 \v 3 He was opening the scriptures and explaining that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead ones. He said, "This Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ."
-\v 4 Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including the devout Greeks, many of the leading women and a great crowd.
+\v 4 Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a large number of devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women.
 
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 \v 5 But the unbelieving Jews, being moved with jealousy, took certain wicked men from the marketplace, gathered a crowd together, and set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they wanted to bring Paul and Silas out to the people.
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 \v 7 These men whom Jason has welcomed act against the decrees of Caesar; they say that there is another king—Jesus."
 
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-\v 8 When the crowd and the officials of the city heard these things, they were troubled.
+\v 8 The crowd and the officials of the city were disturbed when they heard these things.
-\v 9 After they had taken financial security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
+\v 9 But after the officials made Jason and the rest pay money as security, then they let them go.
 
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 \v 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
-\v 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped God and also with those he met every day in the marketplace.
+\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. And 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.
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 \v 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, just as one of your own poets has said,
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-\v 29 Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divinity is like gold, or silver, or stones, sculptured with the art and thought of man.
+\v 29 Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the qualities of deity are like gold, or silver, or stone—images created by the art and imagination of man.
 
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 \v 30 Therefore God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent.
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-\v 32 Now when the men of Athens heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked Paul; but others said, "We will listen to you again about this matter."
+\v 32 Now when the men of Athens heard of the resurrection of the dead ones, some mocked Paul; but others said, "We will listen to you again about this matter."
 \v 33 After that, Paul left them.
 \v 34 But certain men joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.