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 \v 25 Then someone came and told them, "The men whom you put in the prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people."
 
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-\v 26 So the captain went with the officers, and brought them back, but without violence, for they feared that they might be stoned.
+\v 26 So the captain went with the officers and brought them back, but without violence, for they feared the people, that they might be stoned.
 \v 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest interrogated them,
 \v 28 saying, "We commanded you with a command not to teach in this name, and yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and desire to bring this man's blood upon us."
 
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-\v 33 When the council members heard this, they were furious and wanted to kill the apostles.
+\v 33 When the council members heard this, they were cut to the heart and wanted to kill the apostles.
 \v 34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the council and commanded the apostles to be taken outside for a little while.
 
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 \v 5 He gave none of it as an inheritance to him, no, not even enough to set a foot on. But he promised—even though Abraham had no child yet—that he would give the land as a possession to him and to his descendants after him.
 
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-\v 6 God was speaking to him like this, that his descendants would live for a while in a foreign land, and that the inhabitants there would bring them into slavery and treat them badly for four hundred years.
+\v 6 God was speaking to him like this, that his descendants would live for a while in a foreign land, and that the inhabitants there would bring them into slavery and mistreat them for four hundred years.
 \v 7 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they will come out and worship me in this place.'
 \v 8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of the twelve patriarchs.
 
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 \v 13 On their second trip Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
 
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-\v 14 Joseph sent his brothers back to tell Jacob his father to come to Egypt, along with all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all.
+\v 14 Joseph sent his brothers back to invite Jacob his father to come to Egypt, along with all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all.
 \v 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers.
 \v 16 They were carried over to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
 
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 \v 17 "As the time of the promise approached, the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
 \v 18 until there arose another king over Egypt, a king who did not know about Joseph.
-\v 19 He deceived our people and forced our fathers to expose their newborn infants so they would not be kept alive.
+\v 19 He deceived our people and mistreated our fathers, forcing them to expose their newborn infants so they would not be kept alive.
 
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 \v 25 he thought that his brothers would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance, but they did not understand.
 
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-\v 26 On the next day he saw two men fighting and he tried to make peace between them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?'
+\v 26 On the next day he appeared to them when they were fighting, and he tried to make peace between them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why are you wronging one another?'
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 \v 27 "But the one who had wronged his neighbor pushed him away, and said, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?
 \v 28 Would you like to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
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 \v 59 As they were stoning Stephen, he was calling out to the Lord and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
-\v 60 He knelt down and called out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.
+\v 60 He knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.
 
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 \v 20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish along with you, because you thought to obtain the gift of God with money.
-\v 21 You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right with God.
+\v 21 You have no part or allotted portion in this matter, because your heart is not right with God.
 \v 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, so that he might perhaps forgive you for the intention of your heart.
-\v 23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity."
+\v 23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bonds of unrighteousness."
 
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 \q so he did not open his mouth.
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 \v 33 In his humiliation justice was taken away from him.
-\q Who can fully describe his descendants?
+\q Who can give a full account of his descendants?
 \q For his life was taken from the earth."
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