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02-EXO/21.usfm

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 \v 5 But if the servant plainly says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,"
-\v 6 then his master must bring him to God. The master must bring him to a door or doorpost, and his master must bore his ear through with an awl. Then the servant will serve him for the rest of his life.
+\v 6 then his master must bring him to God. The master must bring him to a door or doorpost, and his master must bore his ear through with an awl. Then the servant will serve him forever.
 
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13-1CH/10.usfm

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 \v 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel. Every man of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down dead on Mount Gilboa.
 \v 2 The Philistines closely pursued Saul and his son. The Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, his sons.
-\v 3 The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers overtook him. He was in severe pain because of the archers.
+\v 3 The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers overtook him, and they wounded him.
 
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 \v 4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it. Otherwise, these uncircumcised will come and abuse me." But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

18-JOB/02.usfm

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-\v 7 Then Satan went away from the presence of Yahweh. He struck Job with severe boils from the sole of his feet to his head.
+\v 7 Then Satan went away from the presence of Yahweh. He struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his feet to his head.
 \v 8 Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and he sat down in the middle of ashes.
 
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19-PSA/066.usfm

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 \q you have tested us as silver is tested.
 \q
 \v 11 You brought us into a net;
-\q you laid a severe burden on our waists.
+\q you laid a heavy burden on our backs.
 \q
 \v 12 You made people ride over our heads;
 \q we went through fire and water,

19-PSA/071.usfm

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 \v 19 Your righteousness also, God, is very high;
 \q you who have done great things, God, who is like you?
 \q
-\v 20 You who have shown us many severe troubles
+\v 20 You who made me see many troubles
 \q will revive us again
 \q and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
 

21-ECC/05.usfm

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 \q1 but the wealth of a rich person does not allow him to sleep well.
 
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-\v 13 There is a severe evil that I have seen under the sun:
+\v 13 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun:
 \q1 riches hoarded by the owner, resulting in his own misery.
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 \v 14 When the rich man loses his wealth through bad luck,
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 \v 15 As a man is born naked from his mother's womb,
 \q2 so also he will leave this life naked.
 \q1 He can take in his hand nothing from his work.
-\v 16 Another severe evil is
+\v 16 Another evil is
 \q1 that exactly as a person came, so also he must go away.
 \q1 So what profit does anyone get in working for the wind?
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21-ECC/06.usfm

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-\v 1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is severe for men.
+\v 1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavy on men.
 \v 2 God might give riches, wealth, and honor to a man so that he lacks nothing that he desires for himself, but then God gives him no ability to enjoy it. Instead, someone else uses his things. This is vapor, an evil affliction.
 
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23-ISA/27.usfm

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 \v 7 Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been killed as in the slaughter of those nations that were killed by them?
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-\v 8 In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his severe wind, on the day of the east wind.
+\v 8 In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.
 \f + \ft Instead of \fqa In exact measure \fqa* , many modern versions have an idea similar to \fqa By driving them away \fqa* . \f*
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26-EZK/30.usfm

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 \v 15 For I will pour out my fury on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.
-\v 16 Then I will set fire in Egypt; Pelusium will be in severe agony, Thebes will be broken up, and Memphis will face enemies every day.
+\v 16 Then I will set fire in Egypt; Pelusium will be in great agony, Thebes will be broken up, and Memphis will face enemies every day.
 
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 \v 17 The young men in Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and their cities will go into captivity.

33-MIC/06.usfm

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-\v 13 Therefore I have struck you with a severe wound,
+\v 13 Therefore I will strike you with a terrible blow, 
-\q I have made you a ruin because of your sins.
+\q and I will make you desolate because of your sins.
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 \v 14 You will eat but not be satisfied;
 \q your emptiness will remain inside you.

41-MAT/09.usfm

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 \v 19 Then Jesus got up and followed him, and so did his disciples.
 
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-\v 20 Behold, a woman who had severe bleeding for twelve years, came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his garment.
+\v 20 Behold, a woman who suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his garment.
 \v 21 For she had said to herself, "If only I touch his clothes, I will be made well."
 \v 22 But Jesus turned and saw her, and said, "Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well." And the woman was healed from that hour.
 

43-LUK/19.usfm

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 \v 20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, here is your mina, which I kept safely in a cloth,
-\v 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you did not sow.'
+\v 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are a man of exacting standards. You take up what you did not put in, and you reap what you did not sow.'
 
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-\v 22 The nobleman said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am a severe man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.
+\v 22 The nobleman said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am a man of exacting standards, that I take up what I did not put in, and that I reaped what I did not sow.
 \v 23 Then why did you not put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I would have collected it with interest?'
 
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60-JAS/03.usfm

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-\v 1 Not many people should become teachers, my brothers. We know that we will receive more severe judgment.
+\v 1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
-\v 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in words, he is a fully developed man, able to control even his whole body.
+\v 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in words, he is a perfect man, able to control even his whole body.
 
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 \v 3 Now if we put bits into horses' mouths for them to obey us, we can also direct their whole bodies.