Cleaning up

01-GEN.usfm

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 \v 1 Up to that time, Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children for Abram. But she had a female slave from Egypt, whose name was Hagar.
 \v 2 Sarai said to Abram, "Listen to me! Yahweh has not allowed me to become pregnant. So sleep with my slave Hagar. Perhaps she will bear children whom I can consider to be mine." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.
-\v 3 This happened ten years after Abram and Sarai went to live in Canaan land. In this way Abram took Hagar, Sarai's slave from Egypt, to be his second wife.
+\v 3 This happened ten years after Abram and Sarai went to live in the land of Canaan. In this way Abram took Hagar, Sarai's slave from Egypt, to be his second wife.
 \v 4 So he slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress Sarai.
 
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 \v 4 I also will pray that he bless you and your descendants by enabling you to possess the land in which you are now living as a foreigner, the land that God promised to give to Abraham and his descendants."
 
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-\v 5 So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan Aram to live with Rebekah's brother Laban son of Bethuel, who belonged to the people  of the Arameans. (It was this Rebekah who would later give birth to Jacob and Esau.)
+\v 5 So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan Aram to live with Rebekah's brother Laban son of Bethuel, who belonged to the people of the Arameans. (It was this Rebekah who would later give birth to Jacob and Esau.)
 
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 \v 1 One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women in that area.
-\v 2 Shechem was one of the sons of Hamor, and he was descended from the people  of the Hivites. When he saw her, he took her and forced her to have sex with him.
+\v 2 Shechem was one of the sons of Hamor, and he was descended from the people of the Hivites. When he saw her, he took her and forced her to have sex with him.
 \v 3 He was very much attracted to her, and he became attached to her. He loved her and he spoke very tenderly to the girl. 
 
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 \v 21 "These men are friendly toward us. We should let them live here and travel around. Certainly the land is big enough to support them and us. Our young men can marry their daughters, and their young men can marry our daughters.
 
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-\v 22 But these men will agree to live among us and become one people  with us only if all our males are circumcised, as they are.
+\v 22 But these men will agree to live among us and become one people with us only if all our males are circumcised, as they are.
 \v 23 But if we do that, just think! Their cattle, their possessions, and all their animals will become ours! So we should agree to do what they suggest, and then they will live among us!"
 
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 \v 5 As they prepared to leave there, God caused the people who lived in the cities around them to be very afraid of Jacob's family, so that they did not pursue them.
 
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-\v 6 Jacob and all those who were with him went to Luz, which is now called Bethel, in Canaan land.
+\v 6 Jacob and all those who were with him went to Luz, which is now called Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
 \v 7 There he built an altar. He named the place El Bethel, which means "God of Bethel," because it was there that God revealed himself to Jacob when he was fleeing from his older brother Esau.
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 \v 8 Deborah, who had taken care of Isaac's wife Rebekah when Rebekah was a small girl, was now very old. She died and was buried under an oak tree south of Bethel. So they named that place Allon Bakuth, which means "oak of weeping."
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 \v 1 These are those who descended from Esau, whose other name was Edom, and what happened concerning them.
-\v 2 Esau married three women from Canaan land: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, who was the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hittite;
+\v 2 Esau married three women from the land of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, who was the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hittite;
 \v 3 and Basemath, who was the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
 
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 \v 4 Esau's wife Adah gave birth to Eliphaz. Basemath gave birth to Reuel.
-\v 5 Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons of Esau were born while he was living in Canaan land.
+\v 5 Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons of Esau were born while he was living in the land of Canaan.
 
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-\v 6-7 Jacob and Esau had very many possessions. For this reason, they needed more land for their livestock. The land where they were living was not big enough for all their livestock. So Esau, whose other name was Edom, had taken his wives and sons and daughters and all the other members of his household, his sheep and goats and his other animals, and all the other things he had obtained in Canaan land, and they had moved to an area that was away from Jacob.
+\v 6-7 Jacob and Esau had very many possessions. For this reason, they needed more land for their livestock. The land where they were living was not big enough for all their livestock. So Esau, whose other name was Edom, had taken his wives and sons and daughters and all the other members of his household, his sheep and goats and his other animals, and all the other things he had obtained in the land of Canaan, and they had moved to an area that was away from Jacob.
 \v 8 They went to live in the hill country of Seir.
 
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-\v 9 These are those who descended from Esau, the ancestor of the Edom people  who live in the Seir area.
+\v 9 These are those who descended from Esau, the ancestor of the Edom people who live in the Seir area.
 \v 10 Esau's wife Adah gave birth to Eliphaz, and Esau's wife Basemath gave birth to Reuel.
 \v 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
 \v 12 Esau's son Eliphaz also had a concubine. Her name was Timna. She gave birth to Amalek. Those six men were grandsons of Esau's wife Adah.
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-\v 20 This is a list of the descendants of Seir, who belonged to the Hor people , who were the first people  who lived in the region of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
+\v 20 This is a list of the descendants of Seir, who belonged to the Hor people , who were the first people who lived in the region of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
 \v 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Those seven men each became ancestors of a people . Each of the peoples had the same name as the name of their ancestor.
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 \v 22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.
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-\v 34 When Jobab died, Husham became the king. He was from the region where the Teman people  lived.
+\v 34 When Jobab died, Husham became the king. He was from the region where the Teman people lived.
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-\v 35 When Husham died, Bedad's son Hadan became the king. Husham's army fought the army of the Midian people  in the region of Moab and defeated them. The city where Husham lived was Avith.
+\v 35 When Husham died, Bedad's son Hadan became the king. Husham's army fought the army of the Midian people in the region of Moab and defeated them. The city where Husham lived was Avith.
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 \v 36 When Hadad died, Samlah became the king. He was from Masrekah.
 
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-\v 40-43 Here is a list of all the peoples that were descendants of Esau: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. They all lived in the land of Edom. The land where each people  lived got the same name as the name of the people .
+\v 40-43 Here is a list of all the peoples that were descendants of Esau: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. They all lived in the land of Edom. The land where each people lived got the same name as the name of the people .
 
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-\v 1 Jacob continued to live in Canaan land, where his father had lived previously.
+\v 1 Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived previously.
 \v 2 This is what happened to Jacob's family.
 \p When his son Joseph was seventeen years old, he was taking care of the flocks of sheep and goats with some of his older brothers. They were sons of his father's concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah. Joseph told his father about bad things that his brothers were doing.
 
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 \v 1 At that time, Judah left his older and younger brothers and went down from the hill country and stayed with a man who lived in Adullam. His name was Hiram.
-\v 2 There he met a woman who was the daughter of a man from Canaan land named Shua. He married her and slept with her.
+\v 2 There he met a woman who was the daughter of a man from the land of Canaan named Shua. He married her and slept with her.
 
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 \v 3 She became pregnant and later gave birth to a son. His father named him Er.
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 \v 6 At that time Joseph was the governor of Egypt. He was the one who sold grain to people who came from all over Egypt and from many other countries to buy grain. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they prostrated themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
 
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-\v 7 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them. But he pretended that he did not know them. He spoke harshly to them, saying, "Where do you come from?" One of them replied, "We have come from Canaan land, to buy some grain."
+\v 7 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them. But he pretended that he did not know them. He spoke harshly to them, saying, "Where do you come from?" One of them replied, "We have come from the land of Canaan, to buy some grain."
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 \v 8 Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
 
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-\v 29 When they returned to their father in Canaan land, they told him all that had happened to them. One of them said,
+\v 29 When they returned to their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. One of them said,
 \v 30 "The man who governs the whole land of Egypt talked very harshly to us. He acted toward us as though we were spying on his country.
 \v 31 But we told him, 'We are honest men! We are not spies.
 \v 32 Originally there were twelve of us who were brothers, the sons of one father. One has died, and our youngest brother is with our father in Canaan.'
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 \v 16 Someone went to the palace and told the news that Joseph's brothers had come. The king and all his officials were pleased.
-\v 17 The king said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers this: 'Put loads of grain on your animals and return to Canaan land.
+\v 17 The king said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers this: 'Put loads of grain on your animals and return to the land of Canaan.
 \v 18 Then bring your father and your families back here. I will give you the best land in Egypt, and you will have the best food in the land to eat.'
 
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 \v 24 Then he sent his brothers on their way, saying to them "Do not quarrel along the way!"
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-\v 25 So the brothers left Egypt and came to their father Jacob in Canaan land.
+\v 25 So the brothers left Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
 \v 26 One of them told him, "Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is the governor over all of Egypt!" Jacob was extremely astonished; he could not believe that it was true.
 
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-\v 12 Judah and his sons, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (his other sons, Er, and Onan, had died in Canaan land);
+\v 12 Judah and his sons, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (his other sons, Er, and Onan, had died in the land of Canaan);
 \li the two sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul;
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 \v 13 Issachar and his sons Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron;
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-\v 31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to the rest of his father's family, "I will go to the king and say to him, 'My brothers and my father and the rest of his family, who were living in Canaan land, have all come to me.
+\v 31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to the rest of his father's family, "I will go to the king and say to him, 'My brothers and my father and the rest of his family, who were living in the land of Canaan, have all come to me.
 \v 32 The men are all shepherds. They take care of their livestock, and they have brought with them their sheep, goats, and cattle, and everything else that they own.'
 
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-\v 1-2 Joseph chose five of his brothers to go with him to talk to the king. He introduced them to the king, and then he said, "My father and my brothers have come from Canaan land. They have brought all their sheep, goats, cattle, and everything else that they own, and they are living now in region of Goshen."
+\v 1-2 Joseph chose five of his brothers to go with him to talk to the king. He introduced them to the king, and then he said, "My father and my brothers have come from the land of Canaan. They have brought all their sheep, goats, cattle, and everything else that they own, and they are living now in region of Goshen."
 
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 \v 3 The king asked the brothers, "What work do you do?" They replied to the king, "We are shepherds, just as our ancestors were."
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 \v 4 When the time of mourning was finished, Joseph said to the king's officials, "If you are pleased with me, please take this message to the king:
-\v 5 'When my father was about to die, he told me to solemnly promise that I would bury his body in Canaan land, in the tomb that he himself had prepared. So please let me go up to Canaan and bury my father's body. Then I will return.'"
+\v 5 'When my father was about to die, he told me to solemnly promise that I would bury his body in the land of Canaan, in the tomb that he himself had prepared. So please let me go up to Canaan and bury my father's body. Then I will return.'"
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 \v 6 After they gave the king the message, he replied, "Tell Joseph, 'Go up and bury your father's body, as you swore that you would do.'"
 
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 \v 12 Then Jacob's sons did for him what their father had commanded.
-\v 13 They crossed the Jordan River and carried Jacob's body into Canaan land. They buried it in the cave in the field at Machpelah, east of Mamre town. That was the field that Abraham had bought from Ephron, who was one of the Heth people , to use as a burial place.
+\v 13 They crossed the Jordan River and carried Jacob's body into the land of Canaan. They buried it in the cave in the field at Machpelah, east of Mamre town. That was the field that Abraham had bought from Ephron, who was one of the Heth people , to use as a burial place.
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 \v 14 After he had buried his father, Joseph and his brothers and all the others who had gone up to Canaan with him for the funeral returned to Egypt.
 

04-NUM.usfm

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 \v 33 Your children will wander around in this wilderness as shepherds for forty years. Because you adults were not loyal to me, your children will suffer until you all die in the wilderness.
 
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-\v 34 You will suffer for your sins for forty years. That will be one year for each of the forty days that the twelve men explored Canaan land. And I will be like an enemy to you.
+\v 34 You will suffer for your sins for forty years. That will be one year for each of the forty days that the twelve men explored the land of Canaan. And I will be like an enemy to you.
 \v 35 This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it! I will do these things to every one in this group that has plotted against me. They will all die right here in this wilderness!'"
 
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 \v 23 But King Sihon refused. He would not allow them to walk through his land. Instead, he sent his whole army to attack the Israelites in the desert. They attacked the Israelites at Jahaz village.
 
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-\v 24 But the Israelites completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people  lived, because the Ammon army was defending the border strongly.
+\v 24 But the Israelites completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people lived, because the Ammon army was defending the border strongly.
 \v 25 So the Israelites occupied all the cities and towns where the Amorites lived, and some of the Israelites began to live in them. They occupied the city of Heshbon and the nearby villages.
 \v 26 Heshbon was the capital of the country. It was the city where King Sihon ruled. His army had previously defeated the army of the king of Moab, and then his people had begun to live in all of the land of Moab as far as the Arnon River in the south.
 
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 \v 31 So the Israelite people began to live in the land where the Amorites lived.
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-\v 32 After Moses sent some men to explore the area near the city of Jazer, Israelite people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people  who lived there.
+\v 32 After Moses sent some men to explore the area near the city of Jazer, Israelite people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people who lived there.
 
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 \v 33 Then they turned north toward the region of Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at the city of Edrei.
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 \v 2 But King Balak son of Zippor, who ruled Moab, found out what the Israelites had done to the Amor people .
 \v 3 When he saw that the Israelites were very numerous, he and his people became terrified.
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-\v 4 So the king of Moab went to the leaders of the Midian people  and said to them, "This huge group of Israelites will wipe out everything around them, like an ox devours grass!"
+\v 4 So the king of Moab went to the leaders of the Midian people and said to them, "This huge group of Israelites will wipe out everything around them, like an ox devours grass!"
 \p Balak was the king of Moab.
 
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-\v 20 Then Balaam looked out over where the Amalek people  lived, and he prophesied this,
-\q1 "The Amalek people  were the greatest nation,
+\v 20 Then Balaam looked out over where the Amalek people lived, and he prophesied this,
+\q1 "The Amalek people were the greatest nation,
 \q2 but they will be wiped out."
 
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-\v 21 Then he looked out over the area where the Kenite people  lived, and he prophesied this,
+\v 21 Then he looked out over the area where the Kenite people lived, and he prophesied this,
 \q1 "You think that the place where you live is secure
 \q2 like a nest that is made in the cliffs,
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-\v 1 While the Israelites were camped at a place called Acacia Grove, some of the men became unfaithful to God by sleeping with some of the women of the Moab people  who lived in that area.
+\v 1 While the Israelites were camped at a place called Acacia Grove, some of the men became unfaithful to God by sleeping with some of the women of the Moab people who lived in that area.
 \v 2 Then those women invited the men to come when the sacrifices were being offered to their gods. The Israelite men accepted. They went to the feasts with the women and worshiped the gods of the Moab people .
-\v 3 By doing that, the Israelite people joined the women in worshiping the god Baal who the Moab people  thought lived on Mount Peor. That caused Yahweh to become very angry with his people, and he sent a severe plague on many of the Israelite people.
+\v 3 By doing that, the Israelite people joined the women in worshiping the god Baal who the Moab people thought lived on Mount Peor. That caused Yahweh to become very angry with his people, and he sent a severe plague on many of the Israelite people.
 
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-\v 6 But later, while many people were crying at the entrance of the sacred tent, one of the Israelite men brought a woman from the Midian people  into his tent and started to sleep with her. Moses and all the people heard of it.
+\v 6 But later, while many people were crying at the entrance of the sacred tent, one of the Israelite men brought a woman from the Midian people into his tent and started to sleep with her. Moses and all the people heard of it.
 \v 7 When Phinehas, who was a grandson of Aaron, heard this, he grabbed a spear.
 
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-\v 14 The Israelite man who was killed with the woman of the Moab people  was named Zimri son of Salu, who was the leader of a family from the tribe of Simeon.
+\v 14 The Israelite man who was killed with the woman of the Moab people was named Zimri son of Salu, who was the leader of a family from the tribe of Simeon.
 \v 15 The woman's name was Kozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, who was the leader of one of the clans of the Midian people .
 
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 \v 16 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
-\v 17 "Take your men and attack the Midian people  and kill them.
+\v 17 "Take your men and attack the Midian people and kill them.
 \v 18 They have become your enemies, because they tricked you Israelite people and induced many of you to worship Baal, and because one of your men slept with Kozbi, who was the daughter of a leader of the Midian people . She was killed at the time the plague started because of the people who sinned at Mount Peor."
 
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 \v 52 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
-\v 53 "Divide Canaan land among the tribes. Distribute the land according to the number of people in each tribe that are on your lists.
+\v 53 "Divide the land of Canaan among the tribes. Distribute the land according to the number of people in each tribe that are on your lists.
 
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 \v 54-56 Decide by casting lots to determine which group will get which area, but give the largest areas to the groups with the most people."
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
-\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people that they should pay back the Midian people  for what they did to you. After that happens, you will die."
+\v 2 "Tell the Israelite people that they should pay back the Midian people for what they did to you. After that happens, you will die."
 
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-\v 3 So Moses said to the people, "Get some men prepared for battle. Yahweh will enable them to pay back the Midian people  for what they did to us.
+\v 3 So Moses said to the people, "Get some men prepared for battle. Yahweh will enable them to pay back the Midian people for what they did to us.
 \v 4 Select a thousand men from each tribe to fight."
 \v 5 So twelve thousand men prepared for fighting in the battle, one thousand from each tribe.
 
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 \v 8 Among those whom they killed were the five kings of the Midian people—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam with a sword son of Beor.
 
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-\v 9 They captured all the women and children of the Midian people  and took away their cattle, their flocks of sheep, and herds of goats, and all their other possessions.
-\v 10 Then they burned down all the houses in the towns and villages where the people of the Midian people  lived.
+\v 9 They captured all the women and children of the Midian people and took away their cattle, their flocks of sheep, and herds of goats, and all their other possessions.
+\v 10 Then they burned down all the houses in the towns and villages where the people of the Midian people lived.
 
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 \v 11 But they took home with them all the women and children and animals and possessions.
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 \v 31 The leaders of the tribes of Gad and Reuben replied, "We will do what you have said and what Yahweh has said.
-\v 32 We will cross the river into Canaan land, and we will do what Yahweh desires and be prepared for battle. But our land will be here on the east side of the Jordan River."
+\v 32 We will cross the river into the land of Canaan, and we will do what Yahweh desires and be prepared for battle. But our land will be here on the east side of the Jordan River."
 
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-\v 40 That was when the king of the city of Arad heard that the Israelites were coming. Arad was in the southern wilderness in the land of Canaan, where the Canaanite people  lived.
+\v 40 That was when the king of the city of Arad heard that the Israelites were coming. Arad was in the southern wilderness in the land of Canaan, where the Canaanite people lived.
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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
-\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people, 'You will soon enter Canaan land, and it will become yours. The following will be the borders of the land.
+\v 2 "Tell this to the Israelite people, 'You will soon enter the land of Canaan, and it will become yours. The following will be the borders of the land.
 \v 3 On the south you will receive part of the wilderness of Zin, near the border of the region of Edom. On the east side, the border will start at the south end of the Dead Sea.
 
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-\v 19 "Then, just like Yahweh our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and went through that huge desert that is very dangerous, on the road to the hill country where the Amor people  live. We arrived at Kadesh Barnea.
+\v 19 "Then, just like Yahweh our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and went through that huge desert that is very dangerous, on the road to the hill country where the Amor people live. We arrived at Kadesh Barnea.
 
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-\v 20 I said to your ancestors, 'We have now come to the hill country where the Amor people  live. This is part of the area that Yahweh our God, the one whom our ancestors worshiped, is giving to us.
+\v 20 I said to your ancestors, 'We have now come to the hill country where the Amor people live. This is part of the area that Yahweh our God, the one whom our ancestors worshiped, is giving to us.
 \v 21 Note that Yahweh our God is giving this land to us. So go and occupy it as he commanded. Do not be at all afraid.'
 
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 \v 26 "But your ancestors refused to go and conquer that land. They rebelled against what Yahweh our God had commanded them to do, and they would not go into that land.
-\v 27 Your ancestors stayed in their tents and complained. They said, 'Yahweh hates us. So he has brought us here from Egypt just to allow the Amor people  to destroy us.
+\v 27 Your ancestors stayed in their tents and complained. They said, 'Yahweh hates us. So he has brought us here from Egypt just to allow the Amor people to destroy us.
 \v 28 We do not want to go there. The men whom we sent there have made us very discouraged. They have told us that the people there are much stronger and taller than we are, and that there are very high walls around their towns. Also they reported that they had seen giants there that are descendants of Anak.'
 
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 \v 43 So I said that to your ancestors, but they did not want to listen to what I said. They again rebelled against what Yahweh commanded them to do. Their soldiers proudly marched up into that hill country.
-\v 44 Then the men of the Amor people  who lived in that region came out of their towns and attacked those soldiers. They chased your ancestors' soldiers like a swarm of bees would chase a person, and they pursued their men south from Edom and defeated them at the city of Hormah.
+\v 44 Then the men of the Amor people who lived in that region came out of their towns and attacked those soldiers. They chased your ancestors' soldiers like a swarm of bees would chase a person, and they pursued their men south from Edom and defeated them at the city of Hormah.
 
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 \v 45 So your ancestors went back to Kadesh Barnea and cried out to request Yahweh to help them, but he did not listen to them. He did not pay any attention to them.
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 \v 11 They and the descendants of Anak are also called the Repha giants, but the people of Moab call them Emim.
 
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-\v 12 The Hor people  also formerly lived in the Edom area, but the descendants of Esau chased them out. They defeated and killed them and settled in their land, just as the Israelite people later expelled their enemies from the land that Yahweh gave to them.)
+\v 12 The Hor people also formerly lived in the Edom area, but the descendants of Esau chased them out. They defeated and killed them and settled in their land, just as the Israelite people later expelled their enemies from the land that Yahweh gave to them.)
 
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 \v 16 After all the men who had been old enough to fight in wars had died,
 \v 17 Yahweh said to me,
 \v 18 'Today you all must travel through the region of Moab, near Ar, their city.
-\v 19 When you come near the border of the land where the Ammon people  live, do not bother them or start to fight against them. They are also descendants of Lot, so I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given to them.'"
+\v 19 When you come near the border of the land where the Ammon people live, do not bother them or start to fight against them. They are also descendants of Lot, so I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given to them.'"
 
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-\v 20 (That region is also called the land of the Repha giants, who formerly lived there. The Ammon people  call them the Zamzum group.
-\v 21 They were a large and powerful group, who were as tall as the descendants of Anak. But Yahweh destroyed them, and the Ammon people  drove them away and took their land from them and started to live there.
-\v 22 Yahweh had done the same thing for the descendants of Esau who live in the hill country of Edom. He got rid of the Hor people , with the result that the Edom people  took their land from them and started to live there. They still live there.
+\v 20 (That region is also called the land of the Repha giants, who formerly lived there. The Ammon people call them the Zamzum group.
+\v 21 They were a large and powerful group, who were as tall as the descendants of Anak. But Yahweh destroyed them, and the Ammon people drove them away and took their land from them and started to live there.
+\v 22 Yahweh had done the same thing for the descendants of Esau who live in the hill country of Edom. He got rid of the Hor people , with the result that the Edom people took their land from them and started to live there. They still live there.
 
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 \v 28 We will pay for any food or water that you allow us to buy. We want only to walk through your country
-\v 29 until we cross the Jordan River into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us. Do for us just as the descendants of Esau who live in the Edom area and the Moab people  did for us when they allowed us to go through their areas.'
+\v 29 until we cross the Jordan River into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us. Do for us just as the descendants of Esau who live in the Edom area and the Moab people did for us when they allowed us to go through their areas.'
 
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 \v 30 But King Sihon would not allow us to go through his country. That was because Yahweh our God caused him to be stubborn. The result was that Yahweh enabled us to defeat his army and take his land, which we still live in.
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 \v 36 Yahweh our God enabled us to capture all their towns from Aroer in the south, which is at the edge of the Arnon River Valley, to the region of Gilead in the north. Some of their cities had walls around them, but we were still able to capture them.
-\v 37 But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people  live, or the banks of the Jabbok River, or the towns of the hill country, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go."
+\v 37 But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people live, or the banks of the Jabbok River, or the towns of the hill country, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go."
 
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-\v 8 So at that time we took from those two kings of the Amor people  all the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River gorge in the south to Mount Hermon in the north."
+\v 8 So at that time we took from those two kings of the Amor people all the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River gorge in the south to Mount Hermon in the north."
 \v 9 (That mountain is called Sirion by the people of the city of Sidon and is called Senir by the Amor people .)
 \v 10 "We captured all the towns on the plateau, and all the region of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far east as the cities of Edrei and Salekah, which also belonged to Og's kingdom."
 
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 \v 46 when they were in the valley east of the Jordan River. They were across from the town of Beth Peor, in the land that previously was ruled by Sihon, the king of the Amor people , who lived in Heshbon. Moses and the other Israelites had defeated his army when they came out of Egypt.
 
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-\v 47 They captured Sihon's land and the land that Og, the king of the region of Bashan, had ruled. Those were the two kings who ruled the Amor people  in the area east of the Jordan River.
+\v 47 They captured Sihon's land and the land that Og, the king of the region of Bashan, had ruled. Those were the two kings who ruled the Amor people in the area east of the Jordan River.
 \v 48 Their land extended from the city of Aroer in the south along the Arnon River, as far north as Mount Sirion, which most people call Mount Hermon.
 \v 49 It also included all the area in the plain east of the Jordan River valley, extending to the Sea of Arabah (known as the Dead Sea) and east to the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
 
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-\v 16 Honor your fathers and your mothers, just like I, Yahweh your God, am commanding you, in order that you as a people  may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh your God, will give you, and in order that things will go well for you there.
+\v 16 Honor your fathers and your mothers, just like I, Yahweh your God, am commanding you, in order that you as a people may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh your God, will give you, and in order that things will go well for you there.
 
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-\v 7 It was not because you were more numerous than any other people  that Yahweh chose you; you are one of the smallest peoples on the earth.
+\v 7 It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that Yahweh chose you; you are one of the smallest peoples on the earth.
 \v 8 Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he solemnly promised to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power from slavery in Egypt and from Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
 
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 \v 22 He will gradually drive out those peoples. You should not try to drive all of them out at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, and you would not be able to get rid of them.
 
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-\v 23 Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies one people  at a time. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
-\v 24 He will enable you to defeat their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten. No people  will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
+\v 23 Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies one people at a time. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
+\v 24 He will enable you to defeat their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten. No people will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
 
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 \v 25 You must burn the carved figures that represent their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold decorations that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap to catch you. Yahweh hates every part of those idols.
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 \v 24 All the ground in that land on which you walk will be yours. Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
-\v 25 Yahweh our God will cause all the people in that land to be very afraid of you, which is what he promised, with the result that no people  will be able to stop you.
+\v 25 Yahweh our God will cause all the people in that land to be very afraid of you, which is what he promised, with the result that no people will be able to stop you.
 
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 \v 10 When you who are soldiers go to fight against your enemies, and Yahweh our God enables you to defeat them, and they become your prisoners,
 \v 11 one of you may see among them a beautiful woman that he likes, and he may want to marry her.
-\v 12 He should take her to his home, and there she must shave all the hair off her head and cut her fingernails to signify that now she does not belong to her people  anymore, but now she is becoming an Israelite.
+\v 12 He should take her to his home, and there she must shave all the hair off her head and cut her fingernails to signify that now she does not belong to her people anymore, but now she is becoming an Israelite.
 
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-\v 17 Continue to remember what the Amalek people  did to your ancestors when they were coming out of Egypt.
+\v 17 Continue to remember what the Amalek people did to your ancestors when they were coming out of Egypt.
 \v 18 They attacked your ancestors as they were traveling, when they were weak and exhausted. Those people were not afraid of God at all, so they attacked your ancestors from the rear and killed all those who were unable to walk as fast as the others.
 \v 19 Therefore, when Yahweh our God has given you the land that he promised to give you, and when he has enabled you to rest from fighting all your enemies around you, kill all the Amalek people , with the result that no one will remember them anymore. Do not forget to do this!
 
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 \v 3 But Yahweh our God will go ahead of you. He will enable you to destroy the nations that are living there, in order that you can occupy their land. Joshua will be your leader, which is what Yahweh has already told me.
 
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-\v 4 Yahweh will do to those nations what he did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amor people  when he destroyed their armies and their peoples.
+\v 4 Yahweh will do to those nations what he did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amor people when he destroyed their armies and their peoples.
 \v 5 Yahweh will enable you to conquer those peoples, but you must kill all of those people, which is what I have commanded you to do.
 \v 6 Be brave and confident. Do not be afraid of those people. Do not forget that it is Yahweh our God who will go with you. He will always help you and never abandon you."
 
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 \q he assigned to the nations their land.
-\q He determined where each people  should live
-\q and limited to each people  their own gods.
+\q He determined where each people should live
+\q and limited to each people their own gods.
 
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-\v 14 Caleb forced the three clans of the Anak people  to leave Hebron. Those were the Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai clans.
+\v 14 Caleb forced the three clans of the Anak people to leave Hebron. Those were the Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai clans.
 \v 15 Then Caleb left there and went to fight against the people who were living in Debir (which was previously named Kiriath Sepher).
 
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 \v 12 However, if you stop doing what Yahweh desires; if you associate with those peoples who survived the wars with our people, or if you marry them and become their friends, and if they become friends with you,
-\v 13 then you can be sure that Yahweh our God will not help you force them out of your land. They will become like traps that will catch you. They will be like whips that strike your backs, and like thorns that will stick you in the eye. Your people  will become weaker and weaker until you die out in this land, this very good land that Yahweh our God has given to us.
+\v 13 then you can be sure that Yahweh our God will not help you force them out of your land. They will become like traps that will catch you. They will be like whips that strike your backs, and like thorns that will stick you in the eye. Your people will become weaker and weaker until you die out in this land, this very good land that Yahweh our God has given to us.
 
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-\v 17 The Ammon people  gathered to fight against the Israelites, and they set up their tents in Gilead. The Israelite soldiers gathered and set up their tents at Mizpah.
+\v 17 The Ammon people gathered to fight against the Israelites, and they set up their tents in Gilead. The Israelite soldiers gathered and set up their tents at Mizpah.
 \v 18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, "Who will lead our attack against the Ammonite army? The one who will lead us will become the leader of all us who live in Gilead."
 
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 \v 10 But the man from the tribe of Levi did not want to stay for another night. He put saddles on his two donkeys, and started to go with his slave wife and his servant toward the city of Jebus, which is now named Jerusalem.
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-\v 11 When it was late in the afternoon, they came near to Jebus. The servant said to his master, "We should stop in this city where the Jebus people  live, and stay here tonight."
+\v 11 When it was late in the afternoon, they came near to Jebus. The servant said to his master, "We should stop in this city where the Jebus people live, and stay here tonight."
 
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-\v 1 After the army of the Philistia people  captured God's sacred chest in the town of Ebenezer, they took it to Ashdod, one of their largest cities.
+\v 1 After the army of the Philistia people captured God's sacred chest in the town of Ebenezer, they took it to Ashdod, one of their largest cities.
 \v 2 They carried it into the temple of their god Dagon and placed it alongside a statue of Dagon.
 \v 3 But early the next morning, when the people of Ashdod went to see it, they saw that the statue had fallen on its face in front of Yahweh's sacred chest! So they set the statue up in its place again.
 
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 \v 7 The people of Ashdod realized why this was happening, and they cried out, "The God of the Israelites is punishing us and our god Dagon. So we cannot allow the sacred chest of the God of the Israelites to remain here!"
 
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-\v 8 They summoned the five kings of the Philistia people  and asked them, "What should we do with the sacred chest of the God of the Israelites?"
+\v 8 They summoned the five kings of the Philistia people and asked them, "What should we do with the sacred chest of the God of the Israelites?"
 \p The kings replied, "Take the sacred chest to the city of Gath." So they moved it to Gath.
 \v 9 But after they took it to Gath, Yahweh powerfully struck the people of that city also, with the result that many men, including young men and old men, got tumors on their skins. Then the people became very afraid.
 
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-\v 5 Then Saul went with his army to a town where some of the Amalek people  lived. The army prepared to attack them suddenly by hiding in the valley.
+\v 5 Then Saul went with his army to a town where some of the Amalek people lived. The army prepared to attack them suddenly by hiding in the valley.
 
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-\v 6 Then Saul sent this message to the Kenite people  who lived in that area: "You acted kindly toward all our Israelite ancestors when they left Egypt. But we are going to kill all of the Amalek people , because they opposed our ancestors. So move away from where the Amalek people  live. If you do not move away, you will be killed when they are killed." So when the Kenite people  heard that, they immediately left that area.
+\v 6 Then Saul sent this message to the Kenite people who lived in that area: "You acted kindly toward all our Israelite ancestors when they left Egypt. But we are going to kill all of the Amalek people , because they opposed our ancestors. So move away from where the Amalek people live. If you do not move away, you will be killed when they are killed." So when the Kenite people heard that, they immediately left that area.
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 \v 8 David asked Ahimelech, "Do you have a spear or a sword that I can use? The king appointed us to do this task and told us to leave immediately, so I did not have time to bring any weapons."
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-\v 9 Ahimelech replied, "I have only the sword that belonged to Goliath the giant from the Philisti people  whom you killed in Elah Valley. It is wrapped in a cloth, and is behind the sacred apron in the sacred tent. If you want it, take it, because I have no other weapon here."
+\v 9 Ahimelech replied, "I have only the sword that belonged to Goliath the giant from the Philisti people whom you killed in Elah Valley. It is wrapped in a cloth, and is behind the sacred apron in the sacred tent. If you want it, take it, because I have no other weapon here."
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-\v 1 Three days later, when David and his men arrived at Ziklag, they discovered that men of the Amalek people  had raided Ziklag and some towns in the southern Judean wilderness. They had destroyed Ziklag and burned down all the buildings.
+\v 1 Three days later, when David and his men arrived at Ziklag, they discovered that men of the Amalek people had raided Ziklag and some towns in the southern Judean wilderness. They had destroyed Ziklag and burned down all the buildings.
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 \p He replied, "Yes, I will do that if you ask God to listen while you promise that you will not kill me or give me back to my master. If you promise that, I will take you to them."
 
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-\v 16 David agreed to do that, so the man from Egypt led David and his men to where the men from the Amalek people  were. Those men were lying on the ground, eating and drinking and celebrating because they had captured many things from the regions of Philistia and Judah.
+\v 16 David agreed to do that, so the man from Egypt led David and his men to where the men from the Amalek people were. Those men were lying on the ground, eating and drinking and celebrating because they had captured many things from the regions of Philistia and Judah.
 \v 17 David and his men fought against them from sunset that day until the evening of the following day. Four hundred of them escaped and rode away on camels, but none of the others escaped.
 
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-\v 18 David rescued his two wives, and he and his men got back everything else that the men of the Amalek people  had taken.
-\v 19 Nothing was missing. They took all their people back to Ziklag—young people and old people, their wives, their sons and their daughters. They also recovered all the other things that the men of the Amalek people  had taken from Ziklag.
+\v 18 David rescued his two wives, and he and his men got back everything else that the men of the Amalek people had taken.
+\v 19 Nothing was missing. They took all their people back to Ziklag—young people and old people, their wives, their sons and their daughters. They also recovered all the other things that the men of the Amalek people had taken from Ziklag.
 \v 20 They took with them the sheep and cattle that had been captured, and his men caused these animals to go in front of the rest of the cattle; they said, "These are animals that we captured in the battle; they belong to David!"
 
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+\v 29 Also Rakal, the cities where the descendants of Jehrameel and the cities where the Kenite people live,
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-\v 6 One day King David and his soldiers went to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebus people  who lived there. The people there thought that David's army would not be able to capture the city, so they said to David, "Your army will never be able to get inside our city! Even the blind and crippled people can stop you!"
+\v 6 One day King David and his soldiers went to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebus people who lived there. The people there thought that David's army would not be able to capture the city, so they said to David, "Your army will never be able to get inside our city! Even the blind and crippled people can stop you!"
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-\v 13 When David returned after defeating the armies of Aram, he became more famous because his army killed eighteen thousand soldiers from the Edom people  in the Valley of Salt near the Dead Sea.
+\v 13 When David returned after defeating the armies of Aram, he became more famous because his army killed eighteen thousand soldiers from the Edom people in the Valley of Salt near the Dead Sea.
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-\v 2 The people of Gibeon were not native born Israelites. They were a small group of the Amor people  whom the Israelites had solemnly promised to protect when they invaded the land of Canaan. But Saul had tried to kill all of them because he was very eager to enable the people of Judah and Israel to be the only ones living in that land. So the king summoned the leaders of Gibeon
+\v 2 The people of Gibeon were not native born Israelites. They were a small group of the Amor people whom the Israelites had solemnly promised to protect when they invaded the land of Canaan. But Saul had tried to kill all of them because he was very eager to enable the people of Judah and Israel to be the only ones living in that land. So the king summoned the leaders of Gibeon
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-\v 6 Then they went north to Gilead and to Kadesh, in the land where the Heth people  lived. Then they went to Dan in the far north of Israel, and then further west, to Sidon near the Mediterranean Sea.
+\v 6 Then they went north to Gilead and to Kadesh, in the land where the Heth people lived. Then they went to Dan in the far north of Israel, and then further west, to Sidon near the Mediterranean Sea.
 \v 7 Then they went south to Tyre, a city with high walls around it, and to all the cities where the Hiv and Canaanite peoples lived. Then they went east to Beersheba, in the southern wilderness of Judah.
 
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-\v 19 Uri's son Geber, for the region of Gilead, the land that Sihon the king of the Amor people  formerly ruled, and Og who formerly ruled the region of Bashan.
+\v 19 Uri's son Geber, for the region of Gilead, the land that Sihon the king of the Amor people formerly ruled, and Og who formerly ruled the region of Bashan.
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-\v 16 The reason they needed to rebuild Gezer was that the army of the king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it. Then they had burned the houses in the city and killed all the people of the Canaanite people  who lived there. The king of Egypt gave that city to his daughter for a gift when she married Solomon.
+\v 16 The reason they needed to rebuild Gezer was that the army of the king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it. Then they had burned the houses in the city and killed all the people of the Canaanite people who lived there. The king of Egypt gave that city to his daughter for a gift when she married Solomon.
 
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-\v 29 In Egypt they bought chariots and horses. They paid six and one-half kilograms of silver for each chariot and one and three-fifths kilograms of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Hittite people  and the kings of Aram.
+\v 29 In Egypt they bought chariots and horses. They paid six and one-half kilograms of silver for each chariot and one and three-fifths kilograms of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Hittite people and the kings of Aram.
 
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-\v 1 King Solomon married many foreign women. First he married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also married women from the Heth people  and from the Moab, Ammon, and Edom peoples, and from the city of Sidon.
+\v 1 King Solomon married many foreign women. First he married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also married women from the Heth people and from the Moab, Ammon, and Edom peoples, and from the city of Sidon.
 \v 2 He married them even though Yahweh had commanded the Israelite people saying, "Do not marry people from those areas, because if you do that, they will surely persuade you to worship the gods that they worship!"
 
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-\v 5 Solomon worshiped Asherah, the goddess that the people of Sidon worshiped, and he worshiped Molech, the disgusting god that the Ammon people  worshiped.
+\v 5 Solomon worshiped Asherah, the goddess that the people of Sidon worshiped, and he worshiped Molech, the disgusting god that the Ammon people worshiped.
 \v 6 Thus Solomon did many things that Yahweh said were evil. He did not conduct his life as his father David had done; he did not conduct his life as Yahweh wanted him to.
 
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-\v 7 On the hill to the east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god that the Moab people  worshiped, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god that the Ammon people  worshiped.
+\v 7 On the hill to the east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god that the Moab people worshiped, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god that the Ammon people worshiped.
 \v 8 He also built places where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to the gods from their own countries.
 
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 \v 31 He said to Jeroboam, "Take ten of these pieces for yourself, because Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, says to you, 'I am going to tear the kingdom from Solomon, and I am going to enable you to become the ruler of ten of the tribes of Israel.
 \v 32 Solomon's descendants will still rule one tribe, because of what I promised David, a man who served me very well, and because of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen from all the cities in Israel to be the city where my people will worship me.
-\v 33 I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has been worshiping Asherah, the goddess that the people of Sidon worship, Chemosh, the god that the Moab people  worships, and Molech, the god that the Ammon people  worships. He has not conducted his life as I wanted him to. He has not obeyed my statutes and decrees, as his father David did.
+\v 33 I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has been worshiping Asherah, the goddess that the people of Sidon worship, Chemosh, the god that the Moab people worships, and Molech, the god that the Ammon people worships. He has not conducted his life as I wanted him to. He has not obeyed my statutes and decrees, as his father David did.
 
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 \v 30 Ahab did many things that Yahweh said were evil. He did more evil deeds than any of the kings who ruled Israel before he did.
 
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-\v 31 He committed the same kind of sins that Jeroboam did, but he did things that were worse than the things that Jeroboam did. He married a woman named Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the city of Sidon. Then Ahab started to worship Baal, the god that the Canaanite people  worshiped.
+\v 31 He committed the same kind of sins that Jeroboam did, but he did things that were worse than the things that Jeroboam did. He married a woman named Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the city of Sidon. Then Ahab started to worship Baal, the god that the Canaanite people worshiped.
 \v 32 He built a temple in Samaria in order that the Israelite people could worship Baal there, and he put an altar there for making sacrifices to Baal.
 \v 33 He also made an idol that represented Asherah, Baal's wife. He did many more things that caused Yahweh to become angry. He did more evil things than any of the previous kings of Israel had done.
 
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 \v 25 There was no man who gave himself as completely to do things that Yahweh said were evil like Ahab did. But his wife Jezebel urged him to do many of those things.
-\v 26 The most disgusting thing that Ahab did was to worship idols, just like the Amor people  had done. And that is why Yahweh took their land from them and gave it to the Israelites.
+\v 26 The most disgusting thing that Ahab did was to worship idols, just like the Amor people had done. And that is why Yahweh took their land from them and gave it to the Israelites.
 
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-\v 7 Amaziah's soldiers killed ten thousand soldiers of the Edom people  in the Valley of Salt south of the Dead Sea, and they captured the city of Sela and gave it a new name, Joktheel. That is still its name.
+\v 7 Amaziah's soldiers killed ten thousand soldiers of the Edom people in the Valley of Salt south of the Dead Sea, and they captured the city of Sela and gave it a new name, Joktheel. That is still its name.
 
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 \v 4 But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, asking if his army could help the Israelites fight against Assyria. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute that he had been paying Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
 \v 5 Then he brought the army of Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army besieged the city of Samaria for three years.
-\v 6 Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria forcefully entered the city and captured the people. They took the Israelite people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in the city of Halah. They forced others to live near the Habor River in the district of Gozan. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people  lived.
+\v 6 Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria forcefully entered the city and captured the people. They took the Israelite people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in the city of Halah. They forced others to live near the Habor River in the district of Gozan. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people lived.
 
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 \v 10 In the third year they captured the city. That was when Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost six years, and when Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost nine years.
 
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-\v 11 The king of Assyria commanded that the people of Israel be taken to Assyria. Some of them were taken to the city of Halah, some were taken to a place near the Habor River in the region of Gozan, and some were taken to cities where the Mede people  live.
+\v 11 The king of Assyria commanded that the people of Israel be taken to Assyria. Some of them were taken to the city of Halah, some were taken to a place near the Habor River in the region of Gozan, and some were taken to cities where the Mede people live.
 \v 12 That happened because the Israelites did not obey Yahweh their God. They had disobeyed the covenant that Yahweh had made with their ancestors, and all the laws that Moses, the man who served Yahweh very well, had told them to obey. They would not obey those laws. They would not even listen to them.
 
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 \v 10 These are some of the things that Yahweh said through his prophets. Many times Yahweh had given them these messages:
-\v 11 "Manasseh, the king of Judah, has done these abominable things, things that are much worse than the things that the Amor people  did in this land long ago. He has lead the people of Judah to sin against Yahweh by worshiping the idols that he worshiped.
+\v 11 "Manasseh, the king of Judah, has done these abominable things, things that are much worse than the things that the Amor people did in this land long ago. He has lead the people of Judah to sin against Yahweh by worshiping the idols that he worshiped.
 \v 12 Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh, the God whom you Israelite people worship, says to you: I am about to cause disaster to come to Jerusalem and the rest of Judah. It will be terrible, with the result that everyone who hears about it will be stunned.
 
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 \v 44 When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah, from the city of Bozrah, became the king.
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-\v 45 When Jobab died, Husham became the king. He was from the region where the Teman people  lived.
+\v 45 When Jobab died, Husham became the king. He was from the region where the Teman people lived.
 
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-\v 46 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, became the king. He ruled in the city of Avith. Hadad's army defeated the army of the Midian people  in the region of Moab.
+\v 46 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, became the king. He ruled in the city of Avith. Hadad's army defeated the army of the Midian people in the region of Moab.
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 \v 47 When Hadad died, Samlah became the king. He was from the city of Masrekah.
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 \v 51 Then Hadad died.
-\q The chiefs of the Edom people  were Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
+\q The chiefs of the Edom people were Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
 \v 52 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
 \v 53 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
 \v 54 and Magdiel. These were the chiefs of Edom.
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 \v 54 Salma's descendants were the people of Bethlehem, the clan of Netophath, the clan of Atroth Beth Joab, and the half the clan of Manahath, who were also Zorites. 
-\v 55 Salma's descendants also included the families in the city of Jabez who wrote and copied important documents. These were the clan of Tirath, the clan of Shimeath, and the clan of Sucath. They were all from the Kenite people  who descended from Hammath, the ancestor of the family of Rekab.
+\v 55 Salma's descendants also included the families in the city of Jabez who wrote and copied important documents. These were the clan of Tirath, the clan of Shimeath, and the clan of Sucath. They were all from the Kenite people who descended from Hammath, the ancestor of the family of Rekab.
 
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 \v 4 David and all the Israelite soldiers went to Jerusalem. At that time, Jerusalem was called Jebus, and the people who lived there were the Jebus people .
 \v 5 They said to David, "Your soldiers will not be able to get inside our city!" But David's soldiers captured the city, even though it had strong walls around it, and since then it has been called the city of David.
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-\v 6 What happened was this: David said to his soldiers, "The one who leads our soldiers to attack the Jebus people  will become the commander of all my army." Joab son of Zeruiah, led the soldiers, so he became the commander of all the army.
+\v 6 What happened was this: David said to his soldiers, "The one who leads our soldiers to attack the Jebus people will become the commander of all my army." Joab son of Zeruiah, led the soldiers, so he became the commander of all the army.
 
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 \v 9 When Tou, the king of the city of Hamath in Aram, heard that David's army had defeated the entire army of King Hadadezer,
 \v 10 he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to greet him and congratulate him about his defeating Hadadezer's army, which had been fighting the army of Tou. Hadoram brought to David many items made of gold, silver, and bronze.
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-\v 11 King David dedicated those thngs to Yahweh, like he had done with the silver and gold that his soldiers had taken from the Edom and Moab peoples, and from the Ammon people  and from the people of Philistia, and from the descendants of Amalek.
+\v 11 King David dedicated those thngs to Yahweh, like he had done with the silver and gold that his soldiers had taken from the Edom and Moab peoples, and from the Ammon people and from the people of Philistia, and from the descendants of Amalek.
 
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 \v 1 Some time later, Nahash, the king of the Ammon people , died. Then his son Hanun became their king.
 \v 2 When David heard about that, he thought to himself, "Nahash was kind to me, so I will be kind to his son." So David sent some officials there, to tell Hanun that he was sorry to hear that Hanun's father had died.
 \p But when David's officials came to Hanun in the land where the Ammonite lived,
-\v 3 the leaders of the Ammon people  said to Hanun, "Do you think that David is really to honor your father that King David is sending these men to say that he is sorry that your father died? We think that his men have come to look around our city in order to determine how his army can conquer us."
+\v 3 the leaders of the Ammon people said to Hanun, "Do you think that David is really to honor your father that King David is sending these men to say that he is sorry that your father died? We think that his men have come to look around our city in order to determine how his army can conquer us."
 
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-\v 6 Then the leaders of the Ammon people  realized that they had greatly insulted David. So Hanun and some of his officials sent thirty-three thousand kilograms of silver to hire chariots and chariot drivers from the regions of Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah and Zobah northeast of Israel.
-\v 7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and chariot drivers, as well as the kings of the region of Maacah and their armies. They came and set up their tents near the city of Medeba in the region of Moab. The soldiers from the Ammon people  also marched out and stood in their positions at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah.
+\v 6 Then the leaders of the Ammon people realized that they had greatly insulted David. So Hanun and some of his officials sent thirty-three thousand kilograms of silver to hire chariots and chariot drivers from the regions of Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah and Zobah northeast of Israel.
+\v 7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and chariot drivers, as well as the kings of the region of Maacah and their armies. They came and set up their tents near the city of Medeba in the region of Moab. The soldiers from the Ammon people also marched out and stood in their positions at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah.
 
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 \v 8 When David heard about that, he sent Joab and all his army.
-\v 9 The soldiers of the Ammon people  came out of their city and lined up for battle at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah. Meanwhile, the other kings who had come with their armies stood in their positions in the open fields.
+\v 9 The soldiers of the Ammon people came out of their city and lined up for battle at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah. Meanwhile, the other kings who had come with their armies stood in their positions in the open fields.
 
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 \v 11 He appointed his older brother Abishai to be the commander of his other soldiers and he told them to stand in their positions in front of the army of the Ammon people .
 
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+\v 12 Joab said to them, "If the soldiers from Aram are too strong for us to defeat them, then your soldiers must come and help us. But if the soldiers from the Ammon people are too strong for you to defeat them, then my soldiers will come and help your men.
 \v 13 We must be strong and fight hard to defend our people and our cities that belong to our God. Yahweh will do what he considers to be good."
 
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 \v 14 So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the army of Aram; and the soldiers from Aram were driven away by the army of Israel.
-\v 15 And when the soldiers of the Ammon people  saw that the soldiers from Aram were running away, they also started to run away from Abishai and his army, and they retreated back inside the city. So Joab and his army returned to Jerusalem.
+\v 15 And when the soldiers of the Ammon people saw that the soldiers from Aram were running away, they also started to run away from Abishai and his army, and they retreated back inside the city. So Joab and his army returned to Jerusalem.
 
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 \v 18 But the army of Aram ran away from the soldiers of Israel. However, David's soldiers killed seven thousand of their chariot drivers and forty thousand other soldiers. They also killed Shophak, their army commander.
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 \v 19 When the kings who had been ruled by Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israelite army, they made peace with David, and agreed to allow him to rule them.
-\p So the rulers of Aram did not want to help the rulers of the Ammon people  anymore.
+\p So the rulers of Aram did not want to help the rulers of the Ammon people anymore.
 
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-\v 34 Hushai from the Ark people  was the king's special friend.
+\v 34 Hushai from the Ark people was the king's special friend.
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-\v 16 Then Yahweh stirred up some men from the Philistia people  and some Arabs who lived near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, where people from Ethiopia had settled, to come against Jehoram.
+\v 16 Then Yahweh stirred up some men from the Philistia people and some Arabs who lived near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, where people from Ethiopia had settled, to come against Jehoram.
 \v 17 Their army invaded Judah and took away from Jerusalem all the valuable things that they found in the king's palace; they also took away his sons and wives. His youngest son, Jehoahaz, was the only one of his sons whom they did not take away.
 
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 \v 6 Uzziah and his army went to attack the army of Philistia. They tore down the walls of the cities of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then they rebuilt the cities near Ashdod and in other places in Philistia.
 \v 7 God helped them to fight the army of Philistia and the Arabs who lived in the city of Gur Baal, and the descendants of Meun who had come to that area from Edom.
-\v 8 Even the Ammon people  paid taxes to Uzziah each year. So Uzziah became famous as far as the border of Egypt, because he had become very powerful.
+\v 8 Even the Ammon people paid taxes to Uzziah each year. So Uzziah became famous as far as the border of Egypt, because he had become very powerful.
 
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 \v 16 About that time, King Ahaz sent a message to the king of Assyria requesting help.
-\v 17 He did that because the army from the Edom people  had come again and attacked Judah and taken away many of the people of Judah as prisoners.
+\v 17 He did that because the army from the Edom people had come again and attacked Judah and taken away many of the people of Judah as prisoners.
 \v 18 At the same time, men from Philistia raided towns in the foothills and in the southern Judean wilderness. They captured the cities of Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as those of Soko, Timnah, and Gimzo with its nearby villages.
 
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 \v 14 While they were doing that, a messenger arrived at Job's home and said to him, "While your oxen were plowing the fields and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
-\v 15 a group of men from the people  of Sheba came and attacked us. They killed all your servants who were working in the fields and took away all the oxen and donkeys! I am the only one who has escaped to come and tell you what happened."
+\v 15 a group of men from the people of Sheba came and attacked us. They killed all your servants who were working in the fields and took away all the oxen and donkeys! I am the only one who has escaped to come and tell you what happened."
 
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-\d A psalm written by David for the choir director, a psalm for teaching, to be sung using the tune "Lily of the promise." David wrote it during the wars in northern Syria, and when Joab's army, after returning from the battle, killed twelve thousand of the Edom people  in Salt Valley.
+\d A psalm written by David for the choir director, a psalm for teaching, to be sung using the tune "Lily of the promise." David wrote it during the wars in northern Syria, and when Joab's army, after returning from the battle, killed twelve thousand of the Edom people in Salt Valley.
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 \v 1 I prayed, "God, you have rejected us Israelites!
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-\v 4 Terrible things will happen to this sinful nation, this people  weighted down by their sin,
+\v 4 Terrible things will happen to this sinful nation, this people weighted down by their sin,
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 \v 1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
 \v 2 "Son of man, inform the people of Jerusalem about their detestable behavior.
-\v 3 Say to them, 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you people of Jerusalem: It is as though you are a woman whose father belonged to the Amor people  and your mother belonged to the Heth people .
+\v 3 Say to them, 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you people of Jerusalem: It is as though you are a woman whose father belonged to the Amor people and your mother belonged to the Heth people .
 
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 \v 44 People who like to quote proverbs will quote this proverb about you: 'Daughters behave like their mothers behave.'
-\v 45 You are like your mother; it was as though she detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. It was as though your father belonged to the Amor people  and your mother belonged to the Heth people .
+\v 45 You are like your mother; it was as though she detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. It was as though your father belonged to the Amor people and your mother belonged to the Heth people .
 
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 \v 1 Some time later, Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
-\v 2 "Son of man, turn toward where the Ammon people  lives, and prophesy about the terrible things that will happen to them.
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-\v 15 This is also what Yahweh the Lord says: "The Philistia people  wanted very much for a long time to get revenge on the people of Judah. They very maliciously wanted to destroy Judah.
-\v 16 Therefore this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: I am about to use my power against the Philistia people. I will get rid of the Kereth people  and all those who live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
+\v 15 This is also what Yahweh the Lord says: "The Philistia people wanted very much for a long time to get revenge on the people of Judah. They very maliciously wanted to destroy Judah.
+\v 16 Therefore this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: I am about to use my power against the Philistia people. I will get rid of the Kereth people and all those who live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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-\v 10 Now I, Malachi, will warn you about something else. It is certain that we Israelites are a people  only because God has created us as a people . But we lie to each other and harm each other; in this way we disgrace the covenant that Yahweh made with our ancestors.
+\v 10 Now I, Malachi, will warn you about something else. It is certain that we Israelites are a people only because God has created us as a people . But we lie to each other and harm each other; in this way we disgrace the covenant that Yahweh made with our ancestors.
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 \v 11 You people of Judah have been unfaithful toward Yahweh. You have done disgusting things in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel. You Israelite men have defiled the temple that Yahweh loves. You have done that by marrying foreign women, women who worship idols.
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-\v 2 They accused him in front of Pilate: "We have seen this fellow causing trouble by telling the people  that they should not pay taxes to Caesar, the Roman emperor. Also, he has been saying that he is the Christ, a king!"
+\v 2 They accused him in front of Pilate: "We have seen this fellow causing trouble by telling the people that they should not pay taxes to Caesar, the Roman emperor. Also, he has been saying that he is the Christ, a king!"
 
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-\v 26 "In the beginning, God created one couple, and from them God produced all the peoples that now live everywhere on the earth. He put each people  in its place for its time.
+\v 26 "In the beginning, God created one couple, and from them God produced all the peoples that now live everywhere on the earth. He put each people in its place for its time.
 \v 27 He wanted people to realize that they need him. Then maybe they would look for him and find him. God wants us to look for him, although he is very close to each one of us.
 
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