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07-JDG/20.usfm

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 \v 22 But the people of Israel strengthened themselves and they formed the battle line in the same place where they had taken positions on the first day.
-\v 23 Then the people of Israel went up and they wept before Yahweh until evening, and they sought direction from Yahweh. They said, "Should we go again to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" And Yahweh said, "Attack them!"
+\v 23 Then the people of Israel went up and they wept before Yahweh until evening, and they sought direction from Yahweh. They said, "Should we go again to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" Yahweh said, "Attack them!"
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 \v 24 So the people of Israel went against the soldiers of Benjamin the second day.

08-RUT/02.usfm

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 \v 1 Now Naomi's husband, Elimelech, had a kinsman, Boaz, who was a wealthy, influential man.
-\v 2 Ruth, the Moabitess, said to Naomi, "Now let me go and glean among the ears of grain in the fields. I will follow anyone in whose eyes I will find favor." So Naomi said to her, "Go, my daughter."
+\v 2 Ruth, the Moabitess, said to Naomi, "Now let me go and glean what remains among the ears of grain in the fields. I will follow anyone in whose eyes I will find favor." So Naomi said to her, "Go, my daughter."
 
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-\v 3 Ruth went and gleaned in the fields after the reapers. She happened to come to the portion of the fields belonging to Boaz, who was related to Elimelech.
+\v 3 Ruth went and gleaned what remained in the fields after they had harvested it. She happened to come to the portion of the fields belonging to Boaz, who was related to Elimelech.
 \v 4 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, "May Yahweh be with you." They answered him, "May Yahweh bless you."
 
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 \v 5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was supervising the reapers, "What man does this young woman belong to?"
 \v 6 The servant supervising the reapers answered and said, "It is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab.
-\v 7 She said to me, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers.' So she came here and has continued from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house."
+\v 7 She said to me, 'Please let me glean what remains in the field after the workers harvest the crop.' So she came here and has continued from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house."
 \f + \ft Some modern versions read, \fqa Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves of grain after the reapers. \fqb \f*
 
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 \v 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Are you listening to me, my daughter? Do not go and glean in another field; do not leave my field. Instead, stay here and work with my young female workers.
-\v 9 Keep your eyes only on the field where the men are reaping and follow behind the other women. Have I not instructed the men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, you may go to the waterpots and drink the water that the men have drawn."
+\v 9 Keep your eyes only on the field where the men are reaping and follow behind the other women. Have I not instructed the men not to touch you? Whenever you are thirsty, you may go to the waterpots and drink the water that the men have drawn."
 
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 \v 10 Then she bowed down before Boaz, touching her head to the ground. She said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should be concerned about me, a foreigner?"
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 \v 14 At mealtime Boaz said to Ruth, "Come here, and eat some of the bread, and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar." She sat beside the reapers, and he offered her some roasted grain. She ate until she was satisfied and left the rest of it.
 
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-\v 15 When she got up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not say anything bad to her.
+\v 15 As she got up to gather up grain, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her gather up the grain even among the bundles, and do not tell her not to.
-\v 16 And you must also pull out some sheaves for her from the bundles, and leave them for her to glean. Do not rebuke her."
+\v 16 Also pull out for her some ears of grain from the bundles, and leave them for her to gather up, and do not rebuke her."
 
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-\v 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out the ears of grain that she had gleaned, and the grain was about an ephah of barley.
+\v 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out the ears of grain that she had gathered, and the grain was about an ephah of barley.
-\v 18 She lifted it up and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Ruth also brought out the roasted grain left from her meal and gave it to her.
+\v 18 She lifted it up and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gathered. Ruth also brought out the roasted grain left from her meal and gave it to her.
 
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 \v 19 Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where did you go to work? May the man who helped you be blessed." Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man who owned the field where she had worked. She said, "The name of the man who owns the field where I worked today is Boaz."

08-RUT/03.usfm

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 \v 3 Therefore, wash yourself, anoint yourself, put on your best clothes, and go down to the threshing floor. But do not make yourself known to the man until he finishes eating and drinking.
 \f + \ft The Hebrew text has, \fqa Put on your best piece of clothing. \fqb However, a marginal note instructs readers to read, \fqa Put on your best clothes. \fqb Translators are free to choose for themselves. \f*
-\v 4 And make sure, when he lies down, that you remember the place where he lies down so that later you can go to him, uncover his feet, and lie down there. Then he will tell you what to do."
+\v 4 But when he lies down, take notice of the place where he lies down so that later you can go to him, uncover his feet, and lie down there. Then he will tell you what to do."
 \v 5 Ruth said to Naomi, "I will do everything you say."
 
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 \v 10 Boaz said, "My daughter, may you be blessed by Yahweh. You have showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you have not gone after any of the young men, whether poor or rich.
-\v 11 And now, my daughter, do not be afraid! I will do for you all that you say, because all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.
+\v 11 Now, my daughter, do not be afraid! I will do for you all that you say, because all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.
 
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-\v 12 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however, there is a kinsman nearer than I.
+\v 12 It is true that I am a kinsman, but there is a kinsman nearer than I.
 \v 13 Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the duty of a kinsman, good, let him do the kinsman's duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do it, by the life of Yahweh. Lie down until the morning."
 
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08-RUT/04.usfm

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 \v 7 Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning the redemption and exchange of goods. To confirm all things, a man took off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor; this was the manner of making legal agreements in Israel.
-\v 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." And he took off his shoe.
+\v 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," and he took off his sandal.
 
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 \v 9 Then Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, "You are witnesses today that I have bought all that was Elimelech's and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's from the hand of Naomi.
 \v 10 Moreover about Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon: I have also acquired her to be my wife, in order that I might raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today."
 
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-\v 11 All the people who were in the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built up the house of Israel. And may you prosper in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
+\v 11 All the people who were in the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built up the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
 \v 12 May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the offspring that Yahweh will give you with this young woman."
 
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 \v 15 May he be for you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."
 
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-\v 16 Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and took care of him.
+\v 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and took care of him.
-\v 17 And the women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, who became the father of David.
+\v 17 The women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, who became the father of David.
 
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09-1SA/01.usfm

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 \v 26 She said, "Oh, my master! As you live, my master, I am the woman who stood here next to you praying to Yahweh.
 \v 27 For this child I prayed and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.
-\v 28 I have given him to Yahweh; as long as he lives he is lent to Yahweh." And he worshiped Yahweh there.
+\v 28 I have given him to Yahweh, as long as he lives he is lent to Yahweh." Then he worshiped Yahweh there.
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12-2KI/15.usfm

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-\v 1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began his reign.
+\v 1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
 \v 2 Azariah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jechiliah, and she was from Jerusalem.
 \v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, just as his father Amaziah had done.
 
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 \v 9 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
 
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-\v 10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, attacked him in front of the people, and killed him. Then he became king in his place.
+\v 10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, attacked him in Ibleam, and killed him. Then he became king in his place.
 \v 11 As for the other matters concerning Zechariah, they are written in The Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
 \v 12 This was the word of Yahweh that he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." And so it happened.
 
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 \v 16 Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were there, and the borders around Tirzah, because they did not open up the city to him. So he attacked it, and he ripped open all the pregnant women in that village.
 
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-\v 17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah began the reign of Menahem son of Gadi over Israel; he reigned ten years in Samaria.
+\v 1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
 \v 18 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh. For his whole life, he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
 
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