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 \v 37 But because of what your ancestors did, Yahweh was also angry with me. He said to me, 'You also will not go enter that land.
-\v 38 Joshua son of Nun, who is your helper, will enter it. Encourage him, because he is the one who will enable you Israelite people to occupy that land.'
+\v 38 Joshua son of Nun, who is your helper, will enter it. Encourage him because he is the one who will enable you Israelite people to occupy that land.'
 
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 \v 26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of what your ancestors had done, so he would not pay attention to me. Instead, he said, 'That is enough talk from you! Do not talk to me about that again!
-\v 27 You will climb up to the top of Mount Pisgah and look toward the west and the east, toward the north and the south. You must look at it all carefully, because you will not cross the Jordan River to see the land from there.
+\v 27 You will climb up to the top of Mount Pisgah and look toward the west and the east, toward the north and the south. You must look at it all carefully because you will not cross the Jordan River to see the land from there.
 
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-\v 28 But tell Joshua what he must do; encourage him to be strong, because he is the one who will lead the people across the river so they can occupy the land that you will see from the top of the mountain.'
+\v 28 But tell Joshua what he must do; encourage him to be strong because he is the one who will lead the people across the river so they can occupy the land that you will see from the top of the mountain.'
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 \v 29 So we remained in the Jordan River valley close to the town of Beth Peor."
 
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 \v 23 Be sure that you do not forget the covenant that Yahweh our God made with you, and do not make a carved figure in the likeness of anything he has forbidden you.
-\v 24 You must not do that because Yahweh your God wants everyone to worship him alone. He will destroy anyone who worships idols.
+\v 24 You must not do that, because Yahweh your God wants everyone to worship him alone. He will destroy anyone who worships idols.
 
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 \v 4 Yahweh spoke with us face to face on that mountain, from the middle of the fire.
-\v 5 On that day, I stood between your ancestors and Yahweh to tell them what he said, because they were afraid of the fire, and they did not want to climb up the mountain. This is what Yahweh said:
+\v 5 On that day, I stood between your ancestors and Yahweh to tell them what he said because they were afraid of the fire, and they did not want to climb up the mountain. This is what Yahweh said:
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 \v 6 'I am Yahweh your God, the one you worship. I am the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I am the one who freed you from being slaves there.
 
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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.
-\v 26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise those idols, because they are things that Yahweh has cursed and he promises to destroy them."
+\v 26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise those idols because they are things that Yahweh has cursed and he promises to destroy them."
 
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 \v 1 "You must faithfully obey all the commandments that I am giving you today. If you do that, you will live a long time, you will become very numerous, and your people will occupy the land that Yahweh solemnly promised your ancestors that he would give to you.
-\v 2 And do not forget how Yahweh our God led us as we traveled through the desert during these past forty years. He caused you to have many problems, because he wanted to cause you to realize that you needed to trust him and not yourselves. And he wanted to test you, to find out what you intended to do, whether you would obey his commandments or not.
+\v 2 And do not forget how Yahweh our God led us as we traveled through the desert during these past forty years. He caused you to have many problems because he wanted to cause you to realize that you needed to trust him and not yourselves. And he wanted to test you, to find out what you intended to do, whether you would obey his commandments or not.
 
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 \v 3 So he caused you to have difficulties. He allowed you to become hungry. Then he gave you manna, food from heaven, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did that to teach you that people need food for their bodies, but they also need food for their spirits, which comes from paying attention to everything that Yahweh says.
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 \v 15 Do not forget that he led them while they traveled through that huge and terrible desert, where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. And do not forget that where the ground was very dry and there was no water, he caused water to flow for them out of solid rock.
-\v 16 Do not forget that in that desert he gave your ancestors manna to eat, food that they had never eaten. He caused them to have it, because he wanted to cause them to realize that they needed to trust him and not themselves. And he wanted to test them, to find out what they intended to do, in order that when those difficulties ended, he would do many good things for them.
+\v 16 Do not forget that in that desert he gave your ancestors manna to eat, food that they had never eaten. He caused them to have it because he wanted to cause them to realize that they needed to trust him and not themselves. And he wanted to test them, to find out what they intended to do, in order that when those difficulties ended, he would do many good things for them.
 \v 17 Be sure that you do not think to yourselves, 'I have acquired all these things by my own power and ability.'
 
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 \v 11 At the end of those forty days and nights, Yahweh gave me those two stone tablets on which he had written those commandments.
-\v 12 But then he said to me, 'Go down the mountain immediately, because the people whom you are leading, the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a cast figure of a calf to worship.'
+\v 12 But then he said to me, 'Go down the mountain immediately because the people whom you are leading, the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a cast figure of a calf to worship.'
 
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-\v 25 So, as I said, I lay on the ground in Yahweh's presence for forty days and nights, because Yahweh had said that he would destroy your ancestors.
+\v 25 So, as I said, I lay on the ground in Yahweh's presence for forty days and nights because Yahweh had said that he would destroy your ancestors.
 \v 26 And I prayed to Yahweh, saying, 'Lord Yahweh, these people belong to you; do not destroy them. They are people whom you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your very great power.
 
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 \v 18 He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly. He loves even foreigners who live among us Israelite people, and he gives them food and clothes.
-\v 19 So you must love those foreigners too, because you were once foreigners when you were living in Egypt.
+\v 19 So you must also love those foreigners because you were once foreigners when you were living in Egypt.
 
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 \v 20 Be sure to honor Yahweh our God and worship only him. Be faithful to him, and say that he should punish you if you do not do what you promise.
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 \v 6 That is the place where you must bring your sacrifices that the priests will burn whole on the altar, and your other sacrifices that your yourselves present to me, your tithes, other offerings that you promise to give me, the firstborn animals from your cattle and sheep, or any other kind of offering.
 
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-\v 7 There, in the presence of Yahweh our God, you and your families will eat the good things that you have worked to produce, and you will be happy, because he has blessed you very much.
+\v 7 There, in the presence of Yahweh our God, you and your families will eat the good things that you have worked to produce, and you will be happy because he has blessed you very much.
 
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-\v 8 When you are in that land, you must not do some of the things that we have been doing. Until now, you have all been worshiping Yahweh the way you want to,
+\v 8 When you are in that land, you must not do some of the things that we have been doing. Until now, you have all been worshiping Yahweh the way you want to
 \v 9 because you have not yet arrived in the land which he will allow you to permanently possess, where you will be able to live peacefully.
 
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 \v 27 There the priest will burn those offerings on Yahweh's altar. He will kill the animals, drain out the blood, and throw some of it onto the sides of the altar. And you may eat some of that meat.
 
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-\v 28 Faithfully obey all these things that I have commanded you. If you do that, things will go well forever for you and your descendants, because you will be doing what Yahweh our God says is right for you to do and what pleases him.
+\v 28 Faithfully obey all these things that I have commanded you. If you do that, things will go well forever for you and your descendants because you will be doing what Yahweh our God says is right for you to do and what pleases him.
 
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 \v 9 Execute them! You be the first one to throw stones at them to kill them; then everyone else must throw stones at them, too.
 
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-\v 10 Kill such people by throwing stones at them, because they are trying to cause you to stop worshiping Yahweh our God, who rescued your ancestors from being slaves in Egypt.
+\v 10 Kill such people by throwing stones at them because they are trying to cause you to stop worshiping Yahweh our God, who rescued your ancestors from being slaves in Egypt.
 \v 11 When they are executed, all the Israelite people will hear what happened, and they will become afraid, and none of them will do such an evil thing again.
 
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 \v 28 At the end of every three years, bring a tithe of all your crops that have been produced in that year and store it in your towns.
-\v 29 That food will be for the descendants of Levi, because they will not have their own land, and for the foreigners who live among you, and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come to where the food is stored and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.
+\v 29 That food will be for the descendants of Levi, because they will not have their own land, and for the foreigners who live among you and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come to where the food is stored and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.
 
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 \v 14 Each married couple along with their children, their servants, the descendants of Levi who are in that town, and the foreigners, orphans, and widows who are living among you should be joyful in the presence of Yahweh.
 
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-\v 15 Honor Yahweh our God by celebrating this festival for seven days in the place that he chooses for you to worship him. You should all be joyful, because Yahweh will have blessed your harvest and all the other work that you have done.
+\v 15 Honor Yahweh our God by celebrating this festival for seven days in the place that he chooses for you to worship him. You should all be joyful because Yahweh will have blessed your harvest and all the other work that you have done.
 
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 \v 4 This is the rule about someone who has killed another person. If someone accidentally kills another person who was not his enemy, he may escape to one of those cities and be safe.
-\v 5 For example, if two men go into the forest to cut some wood, if the ax head comes off the handle while one of them is chopping down a tree and the ax head strikes and kills the other man, the man who was using the ax will be allowed to run to one of those cities and be safe there, because the people of that city will protect him.
+\v 5 For example, if two men go into the forest to cut some wood, if the ax head comes off the handle while one of them is chopping down a tree and the ax head strikes and kills the other man, the man who was using the ax will be allowed to run to one of those cities and be safe there because the people of that city will protect him.
 
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 \v 6 Because he accidentally killed someone, and because the man was not his enemy, he can try to run to one of those cities. If there were only one city, it may be a long distance to that city. Then if the relative of the man who was killed to get revenge is very angry, he may be able to catch the other person before he arrives at that city.
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 \v 22 If someone is executed for having committed a crime for which he deserves to die, and you hang his corpse on a post,
-\v 23 you must not allow his corpse to remain there all night. You must bury it on the day that he died, because if you keep the corpse on a post, God will curse the land. You must bury the corpse that day, in order that you do not defile the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
+\v 23 you must not allow his corpse to remain there all night. You must bury it on the day that he died because if you keep the corpse on a post, God will curse the land. You must bury the corpse that day so that you do not defile the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
 
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 \v 18 Then the elders of that city must take that man and whip him.
-\v 19 They shall require that he pay a fine of one hundred pieces of silver and give the money to the father of the young woman, because the man has brought shame on an Israelite young woman. Also, that woman must continue to live with him; she is his wife. He is not allowed to divorce her during the rest of his life.
+\v 19 They shall require that he pay a fine of one hundred pieces of silver and give the money to the father of the young woman because the man has brought shame on an Israelite young woman. Also, that woman must continue to live with him; she is his wife. He is not allowed to divorce her during the rest of his life.
 
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 \v 25 But suppose out in the open countryside a man meets a young woman who is engaged to be married, and he forces her to sleep with him. If that happens, only that man must be executed.
-\v 26 You must not punish the young woman, because she did not do anything for which she deserves to be executed. This case is like when one man attacks another man in the countryside and murders him,
+\v 26 You must not punish the young woman, because she did not do anything for which she deserves to be executed. This case is like when one man attacks another man in the countryside and murders him
 \v 27 because the man who forced her to sleep with him saw her when she was in the open countryside, and even though she called out for help, there was no one there who could rescue her.
 
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 \v 28 If a man forces a young woman who is not engaged to be married to sleep with him, and if someone sees him while he is doing that,
-\v 29 that man must pay fifty pieces of silver to the young woman's father, and he must marry her, because he shamed her by forcing her to sleep with him. He is not allowed to divorce her during the rest of his life.
+\v 29 that man must pay fifty pieces of silver to the young woman's father, and he must marry her because he shamed her by forcing her to sleep with him. He is not allowed to divorce her during the rest of his life.
 
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 \v 4 One reason for this is that their leaders refused to give your ancestors food and water when they were traveling from Egypt to Canaan. Another reason is that they paid Balaam son of Beor from the town of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse you Israelites.
 
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-\v 5 But Yahweh our God did not pay attention to Balaam; instead, he caused Balaam to bless your ancestors, because Yahweh loved them.
+\v 5 But Yahweh our God did not pay attention to Balaam; instead, he caused Balaam to bless your ancestors because Yahweh loved them.
 \v 6 As long as Israel is a nation, you must not do anything to cause things to go well for those two peoples to enable them to prosper.
 
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 \v 12 Your soldiers must have a toilet area outside the camp where you can go when you need to.
-\v 13 When you go to fight against your enemies, carry a stick along with your weapons, in order that when you need to defecate, you can dig a hole with the stick, and then cover up the hole when you have finished defecating.
-\v 14 You must keep the camp acceptable to Yahweh our God, because he is with you in your camp to protect you and to enable you to defeat your enemies. Do not do anything disgraceful that would cause Yahweh to stop you from being his people.
+\v 13 When you go to fight against your enemies, carry a stick along with your weapons so that when you need to defecate, you can dig a hole with the stick and then cover up the hole when you have finished defecating.
+\v 14 You must keep the camp acceptable to Yahweh our God because he is with you in your camp to protect you and to enable you to defeat your enemies. Do not do anything disgraceful that would cause Yahweh to stop you from being his people.
 
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-\v 6 Anyone who lends money to someone else is allowed to require that person to give him something to guarantee that he will pay back the money that he borrowed, but he must not take from him his millstone because that would be taking from the other person the millstone that his family needs to make flour for baking bread to stay alive.
+\v 6 Anyone who lends money to someone else is allowed to require that person to give him something to guarantee that he will pay back the money that he borrowed, but he must not take from him his millstone, because that would be taking from the other person the millstone that his family needs to make flour for baking bread to stay alive.
 
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-\v 38 You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
+\v 38 You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest because locusts will eat the crops.
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 \v 39 You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes to make wine, because worms will eat the vines.
 
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 \v 53 When your enemies are surrounding your towns, you will be extremely hungry, with the result that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters that Yahweh your God has given to you.
 
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-\v 54-55 When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most gentle and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will kill their own children and eat their flesh, because they will not have anything else to eat. They will not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their other children who are still alive.
+\v 54-55 When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most gentle and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will kill their own children and eat their flesh because they will not have anything else to eat. They will not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their other children who are still alive.
 
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 \v 56-57 Even the most gentle and kind women among you, who are very rich with the result that they have never been forced to walk anywhere, will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a child, they will secretly kill the baby and eat its flesh and also eat the afterbirth. And they will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.
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 \v 27 I say this because I know that these people are very stubborn. They have rebelled against Yahweh all during the time that I have been with them, and they will rebel much more after I die!
 \v 28 So gather all the elders of the tribes and your officials, in order that I can teach them the words of this song, and so that I can request all those who are in heaven and on the earth to be witnesses to testify against these people.
-\v 29 I say this, because I know that after I die, the people will become very wicked. They will stop doing everything that I have commanded them to do. And in the future, because of all the evil things that they will do, they will cause Yahweh to become angry with them. Then he will cause them to experience disasters."
+\v 29 I say this because I know that after I die, the people will become very wicked. They will stop doing everything that I have commanded them to do. And in the future, because of all the evil things that they will do, they will cause Yahweh to become angry with them. Then he will cause them to experience disasters."
 
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 \v 21 Because they now are worshiping idols, which are not really gods,
-\q they have caused me to be like a jealous husband, because I want them to worship only me.
+\q they have caused me to be like a jealous husband because I want them to worship only me.
 \q So now, in order to cause them to become angry,
 \q I will now send to attack them an army of a nation of worthless and foolish people.
 
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-\v 43 You people of all nations, you should praise Yahweh's people,
+\v 43 You people of all nations, you should praise Yahweh's people
 \q because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him,
 \q and he cleanses his people's land
 \q which has become defiled because of their sins."
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 \v 16 I desire that Yahweh will bless their land and that he fill the land with many good crops.
-\q I desire that Yahweh will bless the tribes of Joseph in all those ways,
+\q I desire that Yahweh will bless the tribes of Joseph in all those ways
 \q because he was the leader over his older brothers when they were in Egypt.
 
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-\v 9 God caused Joshua to be very wise, because Moses had put his hands on Joshua to appoint him to be their new leader. The Israelite people obeyed Joshua, and they obeyed all the commands that Yahweh had given to Moses to tell to the Israelite people.
+\v 9 God caused Joshua to be very wise because Moses had put his hands on Joshua to appoint him to be their new leader. The Israelite people obeyed Joshua, and they obeyed all the commands that Yahweh had given to Moses to tell to the Israelite people.
 
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