diff --git a/17-EST/09.usfm b/17-EST/09.usfm
index a63be9f6..10fcebf6 100644
--- a/17-EST/09.usfm
+++ b/17-EST/09.usfm
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
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 \v 20 Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
 \v 21 obligating them to keep the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of Adar every year.
-\v 22 These were the days when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and the time when their sorrow was turned to joy, and from mourning into a holiday. They were to make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending gifts of food to one another, and gifts to the poor.
+\v 22 These were the days when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and the month when their sorrow turned to joy, and mourning into a day of celebration. They were to make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending gifts of food to one another, and gifts to the poor.
 
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 \v 23 So the Jews continued the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.
diff --git a/23-ISA/51.usfm b/23-ISA/51.usfm
index 4961b812..2e1dc6db 100644
--- a/23-ISA/51.usfm
+++ b/23-ISA/51.usfm
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die like flies.
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 \v 22 Your Lord Yahweh, your God, who pleads the cause of his people, says this,
 \q1 "See, I have taken the cup of staggering from your hand—
-\q1 the bowl of the cup of my anger—so that you will not drink it again.
+\q1 the bowl, which is the cup of my anger—so that you will not drink it again.
 
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diff --git a/43-LUK/07.usfm b/43-LUK/07.usfm
index c0c7fc1f..42a5c651 100644
--- a/43-LUK/07.usfm
+++ b/43-LUK/07.usfm
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 
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 \v 44 Jesus turned to the woman and said to Simon, "You see this woman. I have entered into your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
-\v 45 You did not give me a kiss, but from time I first came she did not stop kissing my feet.
+\v 45 You did not give me a kiss, but from the time I came in she did not stop kissing my feet.
 
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 \v 46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.
diff --git a/43-LUK/12.usfm b/43-LUK/12.usfm
index e5cddcd7..9d2b0229 100644
--- a/43-LUK/12.usfm
+++ b/43-LUK/12.usfm
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
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 \v 29 Do not look for what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious.
-\v 30 For all the nations of the world look for these things, and your Father knows that you need these things.
+\v 30 For all the nations of the world look for these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
 
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 \v 31 But seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 \v 36 and be like people looking for their master when he returns from the marriage feast, so that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open the door for him.
 
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-\v 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the master will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you, he will dress himself for work, and have them sit down at the table, and he will come and serve them.
+\v 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the master will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you, he will tuck in his long clothing at his belt, and have them sit down at the table, and he will come and serve them.
 \v 38 If the master comes in the second watch of the night, or if even in the third watch, and finds them ready, blessed are those servants.
 
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