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01-GEN/46.usfm

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 \v 8 These were the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn;
 \v 9 the sons of Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;
 \v 10 the sons of Simeon, Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman;
-\v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
+\v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 
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-\v 12 the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah,(but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
+\v 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah,(but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
 \v 13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Lob, and Shimron;
 \v 14 The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel
 \v 15 These were the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

03-LEV/09.usfm

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 \v 18 He killed also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice for the peace offering, which was for the people. Aaron's sons gave him the blood, which he sprinkled against every side of the altar.
-\v 19 However, the fat of the bull and the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the kidneys, and the covering of the liver—
+\v 19 However, they cut out the fat of the bull and the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the kidneys, and the covering of the liver.
 
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-\v 20 they put these on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar.
+\v 20 They took the parts that were cut out and put these on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar.
 \v 21 Aaron raised the breasts and the right thigh high as an offering before Yahweh and presented them to him, as Moses had commanded.
 
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04-NUM/07.usfm

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 \v 42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the descendants of Gad, offered his sacrifice.
 \v 43 His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
-\v 44 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense,
+\v 44 He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
  
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 \v 45 He gave as a burnt offering one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old male lamb.

04-NUM/15.usfm

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 \v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
 \v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you go into the land where you will live, which Yahweh will give to you—
-\v 3 and when you make an offering by fire to him—either a burnt offering, or a sacrifice for a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock—
+\v 3 and you are to prepare an offering by fire to him, either a burnt offering, or a sacrifice for a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock.
  
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-\v 4 then the one bringing the sacrifice must offer to Yahweh a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil.
+\v 4 Then the one bringing the sacrifice must offer to Yahweh a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil.
 \v 5 You must also offer one-fourth of a hin of wine with the burnt offering or with the sacrifice of each lamb.
  
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04-NUM/32.usfm

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 \v 1 Now the descendants of Reuben and of Gad had large numbers of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer and Gilead, the land was a wonderful place for livestock.
 \v 2 So the descendants of Gad and Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the community. They said,
-\v 3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
+\v 3 "This is a list of places we have surveyed: Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon.
  
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-\v 4 the lands that Yahweh attacked before the community of Israel, are good places for livestock. We, your servants, have a lot of livestock."
+\v 4 These are the lands that Yahweh attacked before the community of Israel, and they are good places for livestock. We, your servants, have a lot of livestock."
 \v 5 They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to us, your servants, as a possession. Do not make us cross over the Jordan."
  
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04-NUM/35.usfm

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 \v 22 But if an accused man suddenly hits a victim without premeditated hate or throws something that hits the victim without lying in wait
-\v 23 or if he throws a stone that could kill a victim without seeing the victim, then the accused was not the victim's enemy; he was not trying to hurt the victim. But if the victim dies anyway, 
+\v 23 or if he throws a stone that could kill a victim without seeing the victim, then the accused was not the victim's enemy; he was not trying to hurt the victim. But this is what to do if the victim dies anyway.
  
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-\v 24 in that case, the community must judge between the accused and the blood avenger on the basis of these rules.
+\v 24 In that case, the community must judge between the accused and the blood avenger on the basis of these rules.
 \v 25 The community must rescue the accused from the blood avenger's power. The community must return the accused to the city of refuge to which he had originally fled. He must live there until the death of the current high priest, the one who was anointed with the holy oil.
  
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05-DEU/04.usfm

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 \v 9 Only pay attention and carefully guard yourself, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not leave your heart for all the days of your life. Instead, make them known to your children and your children's children. 
-\v 10 On the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children,'
+\v 10 On the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'
  
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-\v 11 you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
+\v 11 You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
 \v 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire; you heard the voice with its words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
  
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 \v 15 So take great heed to yourselves—for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb out of the middle of the fire—
 \v 16 that you do not corrupt yourselves and make a carved figure in the likeness of any creature, the form of a male or a female person,
 \v 17 or the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,
-\v 18 or the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth,
+\v 18 or the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
  
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-\v 19 or that you lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—and be drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things that Yahweh your God has assigned them there for all the people under the whole sky.
+\v 19 You shall not lift your eyes up to the heavens and look at the sun, the moon, or the stars—all the host of the heavens—and be drawn away to worship them and adore them—those things that Yahweh your God has assigned them there for all the people under the whole sky.
 \v 20 But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of his own inheritance, as you are today.
  
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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-\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, and drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
+\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, and drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you.
  
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-\v 2 and when Yahweh your God gives you victory over them when you meet them in battle, you must attack them, then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
+\v 2 And when Yahweh your God gives you victory over them when you meet them in battle, you must attack them, then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
 \v 3 Neither will you arrange any marriages with them; you will not give your daughters to their sons, and you will not take their daughters for your sons.
  
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05-DEU/08.usfm

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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 12 Be careful that, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them,
+\v 12 Be careful that, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them.
  
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-\v 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and when your silver and your gold increase, and when all that you have multiplies,
-\v 14 that then your heart become lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God—who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,
+\v 13 And be careful when your herds and your flocks multiply, and when your silver and your gold increase, and when all that you have multiplies,
+\v 14 that then your heart become lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God—who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
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-\v 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and through thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought water out of the rock of flint for you,
+\v 15 Do not forget him who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and through thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought water out of the rock of flint for you,
 \v 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had not known, so that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good in the end—
 \v 17 and you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
  

05-DEU/12.usfm

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 \v 1 These are the statutes and the decrees that you will keep in the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
-\v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree;
+\v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  
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-\v 3 and you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
+\v 3 And you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
 \v 4 You will not worship Yahweh your God like that.
  
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05-DEU/13.usfm

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 \v 12 If you hear anyone say about one of your cities, that Yahweh your God gives you to live in:
 \v 13 Some wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city and said, 'Let us go and worship other gods that you have not known.'
-\v 14 Then you will examine the evidence, make search, and investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you— 
+\v 14 Then you will examine the evidence, make search, and investigate it thoroughly. When you discover that it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you, then you will take action.  
 
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-\v 15 then you will surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, completely destroy it and all the people who are in it, along with its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
+\v 15 You will surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, completely destroy it and all the people who are in it, along with its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
 \v 16 You will gather all the spoil from it into the middle of its street and will burn the city, as well as all its spoil—for Yahweh your God. The city will be a heap of ruins forever; it must never be built again.
  
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05-DEU/14.usfm

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 \v 11 All clean birds you may eat.
 \v 12 But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
-\v 13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon,
+\v 13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.
  
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-\v 14 any kind of raven,
+\v 14 You must not eat any kind of raven,
 \v 15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
 \v 16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
-\v 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
+\v 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.
  
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-\v 18 and the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
+\v 18 You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
 \v 19 All winged, swarming things are unclean for you; they must not be eaten.
 \v 20 You may eat all clean flying things.
  

05-DEU/18.usfm

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 \v 20 But the prophet who speaks a word arrogantly in my name, a word that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that very prophet must die.'
-\v 21 If you say in your heart, 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'—
+\v 21 This is what you must say in your heart: 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'
  
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-\v 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.
+\v 22 You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.
  
 
 

06-JOS/02.usfm

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 \v 15 So she let them down out through the window using a rope. The house in which she lived was built into the wall of the city. 
 \v 16 She said to them, "Go in the hills and hide or the pursuers will find you. Hide there for three days until the pursuers have returned. Then go on your way."
-\v 17 The men said to her, "We will be not be bound to the promises of the oath you made us swear to, if you do not do this:
+\v 17 The men said to her, "We will be not be bound to the promises of the oath you made us swear to, if you do not do this.
 
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 \v 18 When we come into the land, you must tie this scarlet rope in the window through which you let us down, and you will gather into the house your father and mother, your brothers and all your father's household.

07-JDG/11.usfm

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 \v 14 Again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the people of Ammon,
 \v 15 and he said, "This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab and the land of the people of Ammon,
-\v 16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds and on to Kadesh,
+\v 16 but they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds and on to Kadesh.
  
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-\v 17 Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.
+\v 17 When Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.
 \v 18 Then they went through the wilderness and turned away from the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and they went along the east side of the land of Moab and they camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not go into the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was Moab's border.
  
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