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-\v 9 Then Moses, along with the priests, said to all the Israelite people, "You Israelite people, be quiet and listen to what I am saying. Today you have become the people who belong to Yahweh, our God.
+\v 9 Then Moses, along with the priests, said to all the Israelite people, "You Israelite people, be quiet and listen to what I am saying. Today you have become the people who belong to Yahweh our God.
 \v 10 So you must do what he tells you, and obey all the rules and regulations that I am giving to you today."
 
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 \v 18 'Yahweh will curse anyone who leads a blind person to go in the wrong direction.'
 \q2 And all the people must reply, 'Amen.'
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-\v 19 'Yahweh will curse anyone who deprives foreigners or orphans or widow of the things that the laws state must be done for them.'
+\v 19 'Yahweh will curse anyone who deprives foreigners or orphans or widows of the things that the laws state must be done for them.'
 \q2 And all the people must reply, 'Amen.'
 
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 \v 3 He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities
-\pi and he will bless every thing that you do when you are working in the fields.
+\pi and he will bless everything that you do when you are working in the fields.
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 \v 4 He will bless you by giving you many children and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.
 
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 \v 20 If you do evil things and reject Yahweh,
-\pi he will curse you by causing you to be confused, and to be frustrated in all that you do,
-\pi until your enemies quickly and completely destroy you .
+\pi he will curse you by causing you to be confused and to be frustrated in all that you do,
+\pi until your enemies quickly and completely destroy you.
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 \v 21 Yahweh will send terrible diseases on you,
 \pi until not one of you remains alive in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
 
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-\v 22 Yahweh will afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation.
+\v 22 Yahweh will afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, and with inflammation.
 \pi It will be extremely hot, and it will not rain.
 \pi There will be scorching winds, and he will cause your crops to rot.
 \pi All these things will strike you until you die.
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 \v 25 Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you;
-\pi your soldiers will attack them from one direction, but will run away from them in seven directions,
+\pi your soldiers will attack them from one direction but will run away from them in seven directions,
 \pi and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.
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 \v 26 You will die, and birds and wild animals will come and eat your corpses,
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 \v 31 Your enemies will butcher your cattle while you watch them, and you will not get any of the meat to eat.
 \pi They will drag away your donkeys while you watch them do it, and they will not give them back to you.
-\pi They will take away your sheep; and there will not be anyone to help you rescue them.
+\pi They will take away your sheep, and there will not be anyone to help you rescue them.
 
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-\v 40 Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop on the ground before they are ripe.
+\v 40 Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin, because the olives will drop on the ground before they are ripe.
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 \v 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because they will be captured and taken away.
 
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 \v 47 Because Yahweh blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully, but you did not do that.
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-\v 48 Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty; you will not have clothes to wear; and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves and work hard until he destroys you.
+\v 48 Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty, you will not have clothes to wear, and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves and work hard until he destroys you.
 
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 \v 49 Yahweh will bring against you an army from very far away, soldiers who speak a language that you do not understand. They will swoop down on you quickly like an eagle.
-\v 50 They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
-\v 51 They will kill and eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will starve. They will not leave for you any grain or wine or olive oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die from hunger.
+\v 50 They will be fierce-looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
+\v 51 They will kill and eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will starve. They will not leave for you any grain or wine or olive oil or cattle or sheep, and you will all die from hunger.
 
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-\v 52 Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you, and they will break down the high and strong walls around your towns, walls which you trusted would protect you.
+\v 52 Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you, and they will break down the high and strong walls around your towns—walls that you trusted would protect you.
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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 63 Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. Those of you who do not die from these plagues will be snatched away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.
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-\v 64 Yahweh will scatter you among many peoples, all over the earth, and in those places you will worship other gods that are made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known.
+\v 64 Yahweh will scatter you among many peoples, all over the earth, and in those places you will worship other gods that are made of wood or stone—gods that you and your ancestors have never known.
 
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 \v 65 In those areas you will not have any peace. You will feel hopeless and be discouraged.
 \v 66 You will always be afraid that your enemies will kill you. You will be very fearful, all day and all night.
 
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-\v 67 Because you will be very fearful and because you will very distressed because of the terrible things that you see, each morning you will say 'I wish it were evening already!' and each evening you will say 'I wish it were morning already!'
+\v 67 Because you will be very fearful and because you will very distressed because of the terrible things that you see, each morning you will say, 'I wish it were evening already!' and each evening you will say, 'I wish it were morning already!'
 \v 68 Yahweh will send some of you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never be forced to go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies in order to have food to eat, but no one will buy you."
 
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 \v 4 But to this day, Yahweh has not enabled you to understand the meaning of all that you have seen and heard.
 
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-\v 5 For forty years Yahweh has led you while you traveled through the desert. During that time, your clothes and your sandals have not worn out.
+\v 5 For forty years Yahweh has led you while you traveled through the desert. During that time your clothes and your sandals have not worn out.
 \v 6 You did not have bread to eat or wine or other fermented drinks to drink, but Yahweh took care of you, in order that you would know that he is your God.
 
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 \v 11 your wives, your children, and the foreigners who live among us and cut wood for us and carry water for us.
 
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-\v 12 You are all here today to agree to accept this covenant with Yahweh, and to bind yourselves to it.
-\v 13 He is making this agreement with you in order to make sure that you are his people, and that he is your God. This is what he promised to do for you, and what he solemnly promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that he would do.
+\v 12 You are all here today to agree to accept this covenant with Yahweh and to bind yourselves to it.
+\v 13 He is making this agreement with you in order to make sure that you are his people and that he is your God. This is what he promised to do for you, and what he solemnly promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that he would do.
 
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 \v 14 This covenant is not only with you.
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 \v 20 Yahweh will not forgive anyone who is stubborn like that. Instead, he will be extremely angry with that person, and all the curses that I have told you about will happen to that person, until Yahweh destroys that person and his family forever.
-\v 21 From all the tribes of Israel, Yahweh will choose that individual to suffer all the disasters that I have listed in the covenant—all the bad things that will happen to anyone whom Yahweh curses for disobeying the laws that I have written in this scroll.
+\v 21 From all the tribes of Israel, Yahweh will choose that particular person to suffer all the disasters that I have listed in the covenant—all the bad things that will happen to anyone whom Yahweh curses for disobeying the laws that I have written in this scroll.
 
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 \v 25 Then other people will reply, 'It is because they refused to obey the covenant that they had made with Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped, when he brought them out of Egypt.
-\v 26 Instead, they wroshiped other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that Yahweh had not told them to worship.
+\v 26 Instead, they worshiped other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that Yahweh had not told them to worship.
 
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 \v 27 So Yahweh became very angry with the people of this land, and he has caused to happen to them all the disasters that their leader warned them about.
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-\v 1 I have now told you about the ways that Yahweh our God will bless you if you obey him and the ways that he will curse you if you disobey him. But if you choose not to obey his laws, then you will be taken away to live in the countries far away from the land of Israel, and when you are taken away, then you will remember what I told you.
+\v 1 I have now told you about the ways that Yahweh our God will bless you if you obey him and the ways that he will curse you if you disobey him. But if you choose not to obey his laws, then you will be taken away to live in countries far away from the land of Israel, and when you are taken away, then you will remember what I told you.
 \v 2 Then, if you and your children begin to worship Yahweh our God and faithfully obey all that I have today commanded you to do,
 \v 3 he will again act mercifully toward you. He will bring you back from the nations to which he scattered you, and he will cause you to be prosperous again.