4th grade vocab overview

01-GEN/01.usfm

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-\v 20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the expanse of the sky."
-\v 21 God created the great sea creatures, as well as every living creature after its kind, creatures that move and with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
+\v 20 God said, "Let the waters be filled with a great numbers of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the expanse of the sky."
+\v 21 God created the great sea creatures, as well as every living creature after its kind, creatures that move and which fill the waters everywhere, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
 
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 \v 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Let birds multiply on the earth."

01-GEN/02.usfm

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-\v 18 Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper corresponding to him."
+\v 18 Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him."
 \v 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
-\v 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to all the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field. But for the man himself there was found no helper corresponding to him.
+\v 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to all the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field. But for the man himself there was found no helper suitable for him.
 
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 \v 21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, so the man slept. Yahweh God took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh where he took the rib.

01-GEN/03.usfm

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 \v 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
-\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
+\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent lied to me, and I ate."
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 \q and have eaten from the tree, concerning which I commanded you,
 \q saying, 'You may not eat from it,'
 \q cursed is the ground because of you;
-\q in painful toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.
+\q through painful work you will eat from it all the days of your life.
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 \v 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
 \q and you will eat the plants of the field.

01-GEN/05.usfm

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 \v 28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son.
-\v 29 He called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed."
+\v 29 He called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the painful labor of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed."
 
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 \v 30 Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah. He became the father of more sons and daughters.

01-GEN/07.usfm

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 \v 16 The animals that went in were male and female of all flesh; they entered in just as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut the door after them.
 
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-\v 17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark. It rose up from upon the earth.
-\v 18 The water came in torrents and greatly increased upon the earth, and the ark floated upon the surface of the water.
+\v 17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
+\v 18 The waters completely covered over the earth, and the ark floated upon the surface of the water.
 
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-\v 19 The waters forced themselves higher and higher on the earth. They completely covered all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven.
+\v 19 The waters rose greatly on the earth so that all the high mountains that were under the entire sky were covered.
 \v 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits above the tops of the mountains.
 
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-\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: the birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the swarming creatures that swarmed upon the earth, and all mankind.
-\v 22 All beings in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all those of the dry land, died.
+\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: the birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the living creatures that lived in great numbers upon the earth, and all mankind.
+\v 22 All living creatures who lived on the land, who breathed the breath of life through their noses, died.
 
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 \v 23 So every living thing that was on the surface of the earth was wiped out, from mankind to the larger animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky. They were all destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
-\v 24 The water dominated the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
+\v 24 The water did not go down to the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

01-GEN/08.usfm

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-\v 1 God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to recede.
+\v 1 God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.
 \v 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
-\v 3 The flood waters receded from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days, the water had decreased considerably.
+\v 3 The flood waters when down slowly from the earth. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
 
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 \v 4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
-\v 5 The water continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
+\v 5 The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
 
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 \v 6 It came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
-\v 7 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the water was dried up from the earth.
+\v 7 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters was dried up from the earth.
 
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-\v 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground,
-\v 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.
+\v 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the earth,
+\v 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.
 
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 \v 10 He waited another seven days and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
-\v 11 The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water had subsided from off the earth.
+\v 11 The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.
 \v 12 He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.
 
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 \v 15 God said to Noah,
 \v 16 "Go out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
-\v 17 Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you, including the birds, the livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may abound throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
+\v 17 Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—so that they may grow unto very large numbers of living creatures throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
 
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 \v 18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
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 \v 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
-\v 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the inclination of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.
+\v 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the intentions of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.
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 \v 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat,
 \q summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."

01-GEN/09.usfm

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 \v 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
-\v 9 "As for me, listen! I am going to establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
+\v 9 "As for me, listen! I am going to confirm my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
 \v 10 and with every living creature that is with you, with the birds, the livestock, and every creature of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark, to every living creature on the earth.
 
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-\v 11 I hereby establish my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
+\v 11 I hereby confirm my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
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 \v 12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
 \v 13 I have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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 \v 15 then I will call to mind my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. The waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
 
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-\v 16 The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to commemorate the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
+\v 16 The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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-\v 17 Then God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
+\v 17 Then God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
 
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 \v 22 Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
-\v 23 So Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so they did not see their father's nakedness.
+\v 23 So Shem and Japheth took a robe and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so they did not see their father's nakedness.
 
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 \v 24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
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 \v 26 He also said,
 \q "May Yahweh, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant.
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-\v 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant."
+\v 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant."
 
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