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 \v 11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and threw those who pursued them into the depths, as a stone into deep waters.
 
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-\v 12 You led them by a pillar of cloud during the by day, and by a pillar of fire during the night, to light up the way for them so they could walk in its light.
+\v 12 You led them by a pillar of cloud during the by day, and by a pillar of fire during the night to light the way for them to go.
 \v 13 On Mount Sinai you came down and you spoke with them from heaven and gave to them righteous decrees and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
 
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 \v 16 But they and our ancestors acted disrespectfully, and they were stubborn, and did not listen to your commandments.
 \v 17 They refused to listen, and they did not think about the wonders that you had done among them, but became stubborn, and in their rebellion they appointed a leader to return to their slavery. But you are a God who is full of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. You did not abandon them.
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-\v 18 You did not abandon them even when they cast a calf out of molten metal and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' while they committed great blasphemies.
-\v 19 You, in your compassion, did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them on the way did not leave them during day, neither did the pillar of fire by night to illuminate for them the road on which they were to walk.
+\v 18 Even when they had cast a calf out of molten metal and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies,
+\v 19 you, in your compassion, did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them on the way did not leave them during day, neither did the pillar of fire by night to illuminate for them the road on which they were to walk.
 
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 \v 20 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them, and your manna you did not withhold from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.
 \v 21 For forty years you provided for them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
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-\v 22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you assigned them land in every distant corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
+\v 22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples, assigning to them every corner of the land. Then they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.
 
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-\v 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land. You told their ancestors to go in and possess it.
+\v 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land and you told their ancestors to go in and possess it.
 \v 24 So the people went in and possessed the land and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites. You gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that Israel might do with them as they pleased.
 
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