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01-GEN/03.usfm

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 \q For dust you are, and to dust you will return."
 
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-\v 20 The man called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living things.
+\v 20 The man called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living things.
 \v 21 Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
 
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01-GEN/04.usfm

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 \v 8 Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and while they were in the fields, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
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-\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?"
+\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
 
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-\v 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? Your brother’s blood is calling out to me from the ground.
-\v 11 Now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
+\v 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is calling out to me from the ground.
+\v 11 Now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
 \v 12 When you work the ground, from now on it will not yield to you its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer you will be in the earth."
 
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 \v 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of those who lived in tents who have livestock.
-\v 21 His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of those who play the harp and pipe.
+\v 21 His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of those who play the harp and pipe.
 \v 22 As for Zillah, she bore Tubal Cain, the forger of tools of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal Cain was Naamah.
 
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01-GEN/06.usfm

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 \v 17 Listen, I am about to bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh that has in it the breath of life from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth will die.
 
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-\v 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You will go into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
+\v 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You will go into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
 \v 19 Of every living creature of all flesh, two of every kind you must bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you, both male and female.
 
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01-GEN/07.usfm

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 \v 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.
-\v 7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.
+\v 7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.
 
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 \v 8 Clean animals and unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
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 \v 10 It came about that after the seven days, the water of the flood came upon the earth.
 
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-\v 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
+\v 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
 \v 12 The rain began and fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
 
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-\v 13 On that very same day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.
+\v 13 On that very same day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.
 \v 14 They entered along with each wild animal according to its kind, and each sort of livestock according to its kind, and each creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every sort of bird according to its kind, each kind of creature with wings.
 
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01-GEN/08.usfm

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 \v 15 God said to Noah,
-\v 16 "Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
+\v 16 "Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
 \v 17 Bring 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."
 
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-\v 18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
+\v 18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
 \v 19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, left the ark.
 
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01-GEN/09.usfm

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 \v 5 But for your blood, the life that is in your blood, I will require payment. From the hand of every animal I will require it. From the hand of any man, that is, from the hand of one who has murdered his brother, I will require an accounting for the life of that man.
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-\v 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man will his blood be shed, 
+\v 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, 
 \q for it was in the image of God that he made man.
 \v 7 As for you, be fruitful and multiply, spread throughout the earth and multiply on it."
 
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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 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.
 
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 \v 24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

01-GEN/10.usfm

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 \v 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
-\v 25  Eber had two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
+\v 25  Eber had two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
 
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 \v 26  Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

01-GEN/11.usfm

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 \v 28 Haran died in the presence of  his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
 
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-\v 29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, a daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah.
+\v 29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, a daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah.
 \v 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
 
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-\v 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan.  But they came to Haran and stayed there.
+\v 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan.  But they came to Haran and stayed there.
 \v 32 Terah lived 205 years and then died in Haran.
 
 

01-GEN/12.usfm

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-\v 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Go from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s household, to the land that I will show you.
+\v 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Go from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's household, to the land that I will show you.
 \v 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
 \v 3 I will bless those who bless you, but whoever dishonors you I will curse. Through you will all the families of the earth be blessed."
 
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 \v 14 It came about that when Abram entered into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.
-\v 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s household.
+\v 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's household.
 \v 16 Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake, and gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
 
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-\v 17 Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
+\v 17 Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
 \v 18 Pharaoh summoned Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
 \v 19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, here is your wife. Take her, and go your way."
 \v 20 Then Pharaoh gave orders to his men concerning him, and they sent him away, along with his wife and all that he had.

01-GEN/13.usfm

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 \v 5 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
 \v 6 The land was not able to support them both living close together, because their possessions were very many, so that they could not stay together.
-\v 7 Also, there was a dispute between the herdsmen of Abram’s animals and the herdsmen of Lot’s animals.  The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
+\v 7 Also, there was a dispute between the herdsmen of Abram's animals and the herdsmen of Lot's animals.  The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
 
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 \v 8  So Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; after all, we are family.

01-GEN/14.usfm

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 \v 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell in there. Those who were left fled to the mountains.
 \v 11 So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and went their way.
-\v 12 When they went, they also took Lot, Abram’s brother's son, who was living in Sodom, along with all his possessions.
+\v 12 When they went, they also took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, along with all his possessions.
 
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-\v 17 After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (also called the King’s Valley).
+\v 17 After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (also called the King's Valley).
 \v 18 Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
 
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01-GEN/16.usfm

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-\v 1  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne any children for him, but she had a female servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
+\v 1  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne any children for him, but she had a female servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
 \v 2 So Sarai said to Abram, "See, Yahweh has kept me from having children.  Go sleep with my servant. It may be that I will have children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.  
 \v 3 It was after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan that Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband as a wife.
 \v 4 So he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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 \v 7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring that is on the way to Shur.
-\v 8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
+\v 8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's servant, where did you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
 
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 \v 9 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority."

01-GEN/17.usfm

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 \v 22 When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
-\v 23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all those who were born into his household, and all those who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that same day, as God had said to him.
+\v 23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all those who were born into his household, and all those who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that same day, as God had said to him.
 
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 \v 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

01-GEN/18.usfm

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 \v 28 What if there are five less than fifty righteous? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it, if I find there forty five."
 
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-\v 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the forty’s sake."
+\v 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
 \v 30 He said, "Please do not be angry, Lord, so I may speak. Perhaps thirty will be found there." He replied, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
-\v 31 He said, "Look, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord! Perhaps twenty will be found there." He replied, "I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake."
+\v 31 He said, "Look, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord! Perhaps twenty will be found there." He replied, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
 
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-\v 32 Finally he said, "Please do not be angry, Lord, and I will speak this one last time. Perhaps ten will be found there." And he said, "I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake."
+\v 32 Finally he said, "Please do not be angry, Lord, and I will speak this one last time. Perhaps ten will be found there." And he said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
 \v 33 Yahweh went on his way as soon as he had finished talking with Abraham, and Abraham returned home.
 
 

01-GEN/19.usfm

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 \v 1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, arose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.
-\v 2 He said, "Please my masters, I urge you to turn aside into your servant’s house, stay for the night, and wash your feet. Then you can rise up early and go on your way." And they said, "No, we will spend the night in the town square."
+\v 2 He said, "Please my masters, I urge you to turn aside into your servant's house, stay for the night, and wash your feet. Then you can rise up early and go on your way." And they said, "No, we will spend the night in the town square."
 \v 3 But he urged them strongly, so they went with him, and entered into his house. He prepared a meal and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
 
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01-GEN/20.usfm

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 \v 1 Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He was a foreigner living in Gerar.
 \v 2 Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent his men and they took Sarah.
-\v 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him,  "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife."
+\v 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him,  "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
 
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 \v 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her and he said, "Lord, would you kill even a righteous nation?
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 \v 6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I also know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
-\v 7 Therefore, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you and all who are yours will surely die."
+\v 7 Therefore, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you and all who are yours will surely die."
 
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 \v 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
 
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-\v 13 When God caused me to leave my father’s house and travel from place to place, I said to her, 'You must show me this faithfulness as my wife: At every place where we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'
+\v 13 When God caused me to leave my father's house and travel from place to place, I said to her, 'You must show me this faithfulness as my wife: At every place where we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'
 \v 14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham. Then he returned Sarah, Abraham's wife, to him.
 
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 \v 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they were able to have children.
-\v 18 For Yahweh had caused all the women of the household of Abimelech to be completely infertile, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
+\v 18 For Yahweh had caused all the women of the household of Abimelech to be completely infertile, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
 
 
 

01-GEN/21.usfm

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 \v 24 Abraham said, "I swear."
 
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-\v 25 Abraham also complained to Abimelech concerning a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized from him.
+\v 25 Abraham also complained to Abimelech concerning a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized from him.
 \v 26 Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing.  You did not tell me before now; I have not heard of it until today."
 \v 27 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
 

01-GEN/22.usfm

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 \v 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
 
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-\v 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These were the eight children that Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
+\v 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These were the eight children that Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
 \v 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
 
 

01-GEN/24.usfm

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 \v 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land? Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"
 \v 6 Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there!
-\v 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my relatives, and who promised me with a solemn oath saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
+\v 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who promised me with a solemn oath saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
 
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 \v 8 But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine. Only you are not to take my son back there."
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 \v 14 Let it happen like this. When I say to a young woman, 'Please lower  your pitcher so that I may drink,' and she says to me, 'Drink, and I will water your camels too,' then let her be the one that you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown covenant faithfulness to my master."
 
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-\v 15 It came about that even before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out with her water pitcher on her shoulder. Rebekah was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
+\v 15 It came about that even before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out with her water pitcher on her shoulder. Rebekah was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.
 \v 16 The young woman was very beautiful and a virgin. No man had slept with her. She went down to the spring and filled her pitcher, and came up.
 
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 \v 21 The man watched her in silence to see whether Yahweh had prospered his journey or not.
 \v 22 As the camels finished drinking, the man brought out a gold nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two gold bracelets for her arms weighing ten shekels,
-\v 23 and asked, "Whose daughter are you? Tell me please, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?"
+\v 23 and asked, "Whose daughter are you? Tell me please, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"
 
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 \v 24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
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 \v 26 Then the man bowed down and worshiped Yahweh.
-\v 27 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his covenant faithfulness and his trustworthiness toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me directly to the house of my master’s relatives."
+\v 27 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his covenant faithfulness and his trustworthiness toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me directly to the house of my master's relatives."
 
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-\v 28 Then the young woman ran and told her mother’s household about all of these things.
+\v 28 Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about all of these things.
 \v 29 Now Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran to the man who was out at the road by the spring.
-\v 30 When he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and when he had heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "This is what  the man said to me," he went to the man, and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
+\v 30 When he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and when he had heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "This is what  the man said to me," he went to the man, and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
 
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 \v 31 And Laban said, "Come, you blessed of Yahweh. Why are you standing outside? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels."
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 \v 33 They set food before him to eat, but he said,  "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." So Laban said, "Speak on."
-\v 34 He said, "I am Abraham’s servant.
+\v 34 He said, "I am Abraham's servant.
 \v 35 Yahweh has blessed my master very much and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
 
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-\v 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old, and he has given everything that he owns to him.
+\v 36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old, and he has given everything that he owns to him.
 \v 37 My master made me swear, saying, 'You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I make my home.
-\v 38 Instead, you must go to my father’s family, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son.'
+\v 38 Instead, you must go to my father's family, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son.'
 
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 \v 39 I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'
-\v 40 But he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and he will prosper your way, so that you will get a wife for my son from among my relatives and from my father’s family line.
+\v 40 But he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and he will prosper your way, so that you will get a wife for my son from among my relatives and from my father's family line.
 \v 41 But you will be free from my oath if you come to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'
 
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 \v 42 So I arrived today at the spring, and said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please, if you do indeed intend to make my journey successful—
 \v 43 here I am, standing by the spring of water—let the young woman who comes out to draw water, the woman to whom I say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
-\v 44 the woman who says to me, "Drink, and I will also draw water for your camels"—let her be the woman whom you, Yahweh, have chosen for my master’s son.'
+\v 44 the woman who says to me, "Drink, and I will also draw water for your camels"—let her be the woman whom you, Yahweh, have chosen for my master's son.'
 
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 \v 45 Even before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me  a drink.'
 \v 46 She quickly lowered her pitcher from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels water also.' So I drank, and she watered the camels also.
 
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-\v 47 I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.' Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
-\v 48 Then I bowed down and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to find the daughter of my master’s relative for his son.
+\v 47 I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
+\v 48 Then I bowed down and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to find the daughter of my master's relative for his son.
 
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 \v 49 Now therefore, if you are prepared  to treat my master with family faithfulness and trustworthiness, tell me. But if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
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 \v 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come  from Yahweh; we cannot speak to you either bad or good.
-\v 51 Look, Rebekah is before you. Take her and go, so she may be the wife of your master’s son, as Yahweh has spoken."
+\v 51 Look, Rebekah is before you. Take her and go, so she may be the wife of your master's son, as Yahweh has spoken."
 
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-\v 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the ground to Yahweh.
+\v 52 When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the ground to Yahweh.
 \v 53 The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother.
 
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@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 \v 58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Will you go with this man?" She replied, "I will go."
 
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-\v 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah, along with her female servant, on her journey with Abraham’s servant and his men.
+\v 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah, along with her female servant, on her journey with Abraham's servant and his men.
 \v 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, 
 \q "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, 
 \q and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them."
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 
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 \v 66 The servant recounted to Isaac all the things that he had done.
-\v 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
+\v 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
 
 
 

01-GEN/25.usfm

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 \v 6 However, while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them to the land of the east, away from Isaac, his son.
 
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-\v 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, 175 years.
+\v 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, 175 years.
 \v 8  Abraham breathed his last and died at a  good old age, an old man with a full life, and he was gathered to his people.
 
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-\v 12 Now these are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s  servant, bore to Abraham.
+\v 12 Now these are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's  servant, bore to Abraham.
 
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 \v 13 These were the names of Ishmael's sons, according to their birth order: Nebaioth—the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel,  Mibsam,
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
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-\v 19 These are the events concerning Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
+\v 19 These are the events concerning Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
 \v 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took  as his wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
 
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 \v 24 When it was time for her to give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
 \v 25 And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment. They called his name Esau.
-\v 26 After that, his brother came out. His hand was grasping Esau’s heel. He was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when his wife bore them.
+\v 26 After that, his brother came out. His hand was grasping Esau's heel. He was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when his wife bore them.
 
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01-GEN/26.usfm

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
 \v 14 He had many sheep and cattle, and a large household. The Philistines envied him.
 
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-\v 15 Now all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up by filling them with earth.
+\v 15 Now all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up by filling them with earth.
 \v 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."
 \v 17 So Isaac departed from there and settled in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
 
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
 \v 18 Once again Isaac dug out the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. The Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham's death. Isaac called the wells by the same names that his father had called them.
 
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-\v 19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
-\v 20 The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac called that well "Esek," because they had quarreled with him.
+\v 19 When Isaac's servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
+\v 20 The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac called that well "Esek," because they had quarreled with him.
 
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 \v 21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too,  so he gave it the name of "Sitnah."
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
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 \v 23 Then Isaac went up from there to Beersheba.
-\v 24 Yahweh appeared to him that same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants, for my servant Abraham’s sake."
+\v 24 Yahweh appeared to him that same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants, for my servant Abraham's sake."
 \v 25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and his servants dug a well.
 
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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
 \v 31 They rose early in the morning and swore an oath with each other.  Then Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.
 
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-\v 32 That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug. They said, "We have found water."
+\v 32 That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug. They said, "We have found water."
 \v 33 He called the well Shibah, so the name of that city is Beersheba to this day.
 
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01-GEN/27.usfm

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 \v 21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near me, so I may touch you, my son, and learn whether you are my true son Esau or not."
 
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-\v 22 Jacob went over to Isaac his father; and Isaac touched him and said, "The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
-\v 23 Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands, so Isaac blessed him.
+\v 22 Jacob went over to Isaac his father; and Isaac touched him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
+\v 23 Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands, so Isaac blessed him.
 
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 \v 24 He said, "Are you  really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."
@@ -64,13 +64,13 @@
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 \v 29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you.
-\q Be master over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
+\q Be master over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
 \q May every one who curses you be cursed; may every one who blesses you be blessed."
 
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 \p
 \v 30  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely  gone out from the presence of Isaac his father—it was then that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
-\v 31 He also made delicious food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Father, get up and eat some of your son’s game, so that you may bless me."
+\v 31 He also made delicious food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Father, get up and eat some of your son's game, so that you may bless me."
 
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 \v 32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
 
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 \v 43 Now therefore, my son, obey me and  flee  to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
-\v 44 Stay with him there for a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,
-\v 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you  both in one day?
+\v 44 Stay with him there for a few days, until your brother's fury subsides,
+\v 45 until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you  both in one day?
 
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01-GEN/28.usfm

@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 \c 28
 \p
 \v 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
-\v 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take a wife from there, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
+\v 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take a wife from there, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
 
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 \v 3 May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.
 \v 4 May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your descendants after you, that you may inherit the land where you have been living, which God gave to Abraham."
 
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-\v 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away. Jacob went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
+\v 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away. Jacob went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
 
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
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 \v 8 Esau saw that the women of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.
-\v 9 So  he went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
+\v 9 So  he went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
 
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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
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 \v 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will protect me on this road on which I am walking, and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to wear,
-\v 21 so that I return safely to my father’s house, then Yahweh will be my God.
+\v 21 so that I return safely to my father's house, then Yahweh will be my God.
 \v 22 Then this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be a sacred stone. From everything that you give me, I will surely give a tenth back to you."
 
 

01-GEN/29.usfm

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 \c 29
 \p
 \v 1 Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
-\v 2 As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there by it. For out of that well they would water the flocks, and the stone over the well’s mouth was large.
-\v 3 When all the flocks had gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well’s mouth and water the sheep, and then put the stone again over the well’s mouth, back in its place.
+\v 2 As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there by it. For out of that well they would water the flocks, and the stone over the well's mouth was large.
+\v 3 When all the flocks had gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well's mouth and water the sheep, and then put the stone again over the well's mouth, back in its place.
 
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 \v 4 Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."
@@ -14,26 +14,26 @@
 
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 \v 7 Jacob said, "See, it is the middle of the day. It is not the time for the flocks to be gathered together. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze."
-\v 8 They said, "We cannot water them until all the flocks are gathered together. The men will then roll the stone from the well’s mouth, and we will water the sheep."
+\v 8 They said, "We cannot water them until all the flocks are gathered together. The men will then roll the stone from the well's mouth, and we will water the sheep."
 
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-\v 9 While Jacob was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
-\v 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob came over, rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother.
+\v 9 While Jacob was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.
+\v 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob came over, rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban, his mother's brother.
 
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 \v 11 Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.
-\v 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. Then she ran and told her father.
+\v 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's relative, and that he was Rebekah's son. Then she ran and told her father.
 
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 \p
-\v 13 When Laban heard the news about Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him,
+\v 13 When Laban heard the news about Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, embraced him,
 kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
 \v 14 Laban said to him, "You are indeed my bone and my flesh." Then Jacob stayed with him for about one month.
 
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 \v 15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
 \v 16 Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
-\v 17 Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
+\v 17 Leah's eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
 \v 18  Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
 
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01-GEN/30.usfm

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 \c 30
 \p
 \v 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
-\v 2 Jacob’s anger was burned against Rachel. He said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
+\v 2 Jacob's anger was burned against Rachel. He said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
 
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 \v 3 She said, "See, there is my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her, so she might give birth to children on my knees, and I will have children by her."
@@ -15,26 +15,26 @@
 \v 6 Then Rachel said, "God has listened to me. He has certainly heard my voice and given me a son."  Therefore she  called his name Dan.
 
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-\v 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant,  conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
+\v 7 Bilhah, Rachel's servant,  conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
 \v 8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." She called his name Naphtali.
 
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 \p
 \v 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
-\v 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
+\v 10 Zilpah, Leah's servant, bore Jacob a son.
 \v 11 Leah said, "This is fortunate!" so she called his name Gad.
 
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-\v 12 Then Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
+\v 12 Then Zilpah, Leah's servant, bore Jacob a second son.
 \v 13 Leah said, "I am happy! For the daughters will call me happy." So she called his name Asher.
 
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-\v 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field. He brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some  of your son’s mandrakes."
-\v 15 Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter to you, that you have taken away my husband? Do you now want to take away my son’s mandrakes, too?" Rachel said, "Then he will sleep with you tonight, in exchange for your son’s mandrakes."
+\v 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field. He brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some  of your son's mandrakes."
+\v 15 Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter to you, that you have taken away my husband? Do you now want to take away my son's mandrakes, too?" Rachel said, "Then he will sleep with you tonight, in exchange for your son's mandrakes."
 
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-\v 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening.  Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me tonight, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes." So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
+\v 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening.  Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me tonight, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
 \v 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
 \v 18 Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I gave my servant woman to my husband." She called his name Issachar.
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 
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 \v 35 That day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
-\v 36 Laban also put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob. So Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban’s flocks.
+\v 36 Laban also put three days' journey between himself and Jacob. So Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flocks.
 
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@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@
 
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 \v 39 The flocks conceived in front of the sticks, and the flocks produced striped, speckled, and spotted young.
-\v 40 Jacob separated the female sheep and directed their faces toward the striped animals and all the black sheep in the flock of Laban.  Then he separated his flocks and did not mix them any longer with Laban’s flocks.
+\v 40 Jacob separated the female sheep and directed their faces toward the striped animals and all the black sheep in the flock of Laban.  Then he separated his flocks and did not mix them any longer with Laban's flocks.
 
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 \v 41 Whenever the stronger sheep in the flock were breeding, then Jacob would lay the sticks in the watering troughs before the eyes of the flock, so that they might conceive among the sticks.
-\v 42 But when the feebler animals in the flock came, he did not put the sticks in front of them. So the feebler animals were Laban’s, and the stronger were Jacob’s.
+\v 42 But when the feebler animals in the flock came, he did not put the sticks in front of them. So the feebler animals were Laban's, and the stronger were Jacob's.
 
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 \v 43 The man became very prosperous. He had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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-\v 1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, that they said, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and it is from our father's possessions that he has gotten all this wealth."
+\v 1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, that they said, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and it is from our father's possessions that he has gotten all this wealth."
 \v 2 Jacob saw the look on Laban's face. He saw that his attitude toward him had changed.
 \v 3 Then Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
 
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 \v 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock
-\v 5 and said to them, "I see your father’s attitude  toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
+\v 5 and said to them, "I see your father's attitude  toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
 \v 6 You know that it is with all my strength that I have served your father.
 
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@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 \v 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now leave this land and return to the land of your birth.'"
 
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-\v 14 Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there  any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
+\v 14 Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there  any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
 \v 15 Are we not treated by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also completely devoured our money.
-\v 16 For all the riches that God has taken away from our father are now ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it."
+\v 16 For all the riches that God has taken away from our father are now ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it."
 
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@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@
 \v 18 He began to drive all his livestock, and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession, which he had gained in Paddan Aram. He began to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
 
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-\v 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.
+\v 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
 \v 20 Jacob also deceived  Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was leaving.
 \v 21 So he fled with all that he had and quickly passed over the River, and headed toward the hill country of Gilead.
 
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 \p
 \v 22  On the third day Laban was told  that Jacob had fled.
-\v 23 So he took his relatives with him and pursued  him for a seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
+\v 23 So he took his relatives with him and pursued  him for a seven days' journey. He overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
 
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 \v 24 Now God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good or bad."
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
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 \v 29 It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, 'Be careful  that you speak to Jacob neither good or bad.'
-\v 30 And now, you have gone away because you longed very much for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?"
+\v 30 And now, you have gone away because you longed very much for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"
 
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 \v 31 Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid and thought that you would take your daughters from me by force I left secretly.
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@
 
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-\v 33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find  them.  He went out of Leah’s tent and entered into Rachel’s tent.
+\v 33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find  them.  He went out of Leah's tent and entered into Rachel's tent.
 
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-\v 34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in a camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
+\v 34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in a camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
 \v 35 She said to her father, "Do not be angry, my master, that I cannot stand up  before you, for I am having my period." So he searched but did not find his household gods.
 
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 \c 32
 \p
 \v 1 Jacob also  went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
-\v 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God’s camp," so he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
+\v 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's camp," so he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
 
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
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 \v 17 He instructed the first servant, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these animals in front of you?'
-\v 18 Then you will say, 'They are your servant Jacob’s. They are a gift sent to my master Esau. And see, he is also coming after us.' "
+\v 18 Then you will say, 'They are your servant Jacob's. They are a gift sent to my master Esau. And see, he is also coming after us.' "
 
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 \v 19 Jacob also gave instructions to the second group,  the third, and all the men who followed the herds. He said, "You will say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

01-GEN/33.usfm

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 \v 8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all these groups that I met?"  Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my master."
  
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-\v 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
+\v 9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself."
 \v 10 Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my gift from my hand, for indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
 \v 11 Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus Jacob urged him, and Esau accepted it.
  
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
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 \v 18 When Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan. He camped near the city.
-\v 19 Then he bought the piece of ground where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
+\v 19 Then he bought the piece of ground where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
 \v 20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
  
 

01-GEN/34.usfm

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 \v 3 He was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
  
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-\v 4 Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get this young woman for me as a wife."
+\v 4 Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get this young woman for me as a wife."
 \v 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. His sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
  
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 \v 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
-\v 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of the matter. The men were offended. They were very angry because he had disgraced Israel by forcing himself on Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing should not have been done.
+\v 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of the matter. The men were offended. They were very angry because he had disgraced Israel by forcing himself on Jacob's daughter, for such a thing should not have been done.
  
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 \v 8 Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem loves your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
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 \v 18 Their words pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
-\v 19 The young man did not delay to do what they said, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter, and because he was the most honored person in all his father's household.
+\v 19 The young man did not delay to do what they said, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter, and because he was the most honored person in all his father's household.
  
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 \v 20 Hamor and Shechem his son went to the gate of their city and spoke with the men of their city, saying,
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
  
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 \v 24 All the men of the city listened to Hamor and Shechem, his son. Every male was circumcised.
-\v 25  On the third day, when they were very sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each man took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
-\v 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword. They took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.
+\v 25  On the third day, when they were very sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each man took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
+\v 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword. They took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.
  
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 \v 27 The other sons of Jacob came to the dead bodies and looted the city, because the people had defiled their sister.

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-\v 1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and stay there.  Build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from Esau your brother.”
-\v 2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
-\v 3 Then let us depart and go up to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
+\v 1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and stay there.  Build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from Esau your brother."
+\v 2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
+\v 3 Then let us depart and go up to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone."
  
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 \v 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@
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 \v 6 So Jacob arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
 \v 7 He built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him, when he was fleeing from his brother.
-\v 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. She was buried down from Bethel under the oak tree, so it was called Allonbacuth.
+\v 8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died. She was buried down from Bethel under the oak tree, so it was called Allonbacuth.
  
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 \v 9 When Jacob came from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
-\v 10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will be Israel.”  So God called his name Israel.
+\v 10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will be Israel."  So God called his name Israel.
  
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 \v 11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
@@ -36,20 +36,20 @@
 \v 17 While she was in hardest labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son."
 \v 18 As she was dying, with her dying breath she named him Benoni, but his father called him Benjamin.
 \v 19 Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
-\v 20 Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. It is the marker of Rachel’s grave to this day.
+\v 20 Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. It is the marker of Rachel's grave to this day.
  
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 \v 21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
-\v 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben slept with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
+\v 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
  
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 \p Now Jacob had twelve sons.
-\v 23 His sons by Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
+\v 23 His sons by Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
 \v 24 His sons by Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
-\v 25 His sons by Bilhah, Rachel’s female servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
+\v 25 His sons by Bilhah, Rachel's female servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
  
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-\v 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female servant, were Gad and Asher.  All these are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
+\v 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's female servant, were Gad and Asher.  All these are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
 \v 27 Jacob came to Isaac, his father, in Mamre in Kiriath Arba (the same as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
  
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 \v 1 These were the descendants of Esau (also called Edom).
 \v 2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites. These were his wives: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
-\v 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
+\v 3 and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
  
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 \v 4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel.
@@ -19,31 +19,31 @@
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 \v 9 Following were the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
-\v 10 These were the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
+\v 10 These were the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
 \v 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
-\v 12 Timna, a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son, bore Amalek. These were the grandsons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
+\v 12 Timna, a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son, bore Amalek. These were the grandsons of Adah, Esau's wife.
  
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-\v 13 These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the grandsons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
+\v 13 These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the grandsons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
 \v 14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife, who was the daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon.  She bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
  
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-\v 15 These were the clans among the Esau’s descendants: 
+\v 15 These were the clans among the Esau's descendants: 
 the descendants of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
 \v 16 Korah, Gatam,  and Amalek. These were the clans descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom. They were the grandsons of Adah.
  
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-\v 17 These were the clans from Reuel, Esau’s son: 
-Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah. These were the clans descended from Reuel in the land of Edom. They were the grandsons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
-\v 18 These were the clans of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: Jeush, Jalam, Korah. These are the clans that descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.
+\v 17 These were the clans from Reuel, Esau's son: 
+Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah. These were the clans descended from Reuel in the land of Edom. They were the grandsons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
+\v 18 These were the clans of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: Jeush, Jalam, Korah. These are the clans that descended from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.
 \v 19 These were the sons of Esau, and these are their clans.
  
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 \v 20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
 \v 21  Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the clans of the Horites, the inhabitants of Seir in the land of Edom.
-\v 22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman, and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
+\v 22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman, and Timna was Lotan's sister.
  
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 \v 23 These were the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah. These were the clans descended from Reuel in the
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 \v 37 When Samlah died, then Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his place.
 \v 38 When Shaul died, then Baal Hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.
-\v 39 When Baal Hanan son of Achbor, died, then Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the granddaughter of Me Zahab.
+\v 39 When Baal Hanan son of Achbor, died, then Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the granddaughter of Me Zahab.
  
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 \c 37
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 \v 1 Jacob lived in the land where his father was staying, in the land of Canaan.
-\v 2 These are the events concerning Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.
+\v 2 These are the events concerning Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.
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 \v 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was the son of his old age. He made him a beautiful garment.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
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-\v 12 His brothers went to tend their father’s flock in Shechem.
+\v 12 His brothers went to tend their father's flock in Shechem.
 
 \v 13 Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers tending the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." Joseph said to him, "I am ready."
 
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@
 
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-\v 31 They slaughtered a goat and then took Joseph’s garment and dipped it into the blood.
+\v 31 They slaughtered a goat and then took Joseph's garment and dipped it into the blood.
 
 \v 32 Then they brought it to their father and said, "We found this. Please see whether it is your son's clothing or not."
 
-\v 33 Jacob recognized it and said, "It is my son’s clothing. A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has certainly been torn to pieces."
+\v 33 Jacob recognized it and said, "It is my son's clothing. A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has certainly been torn to pieces."
 
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 \v 6 Judah found a wife for Er, his firstborn. Her name was Tamar.
-\v 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
+\v 7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
  
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-\v 8 Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother’s wife. Do the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother."
-\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his.  Whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled the semen on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
+\v 8 Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Do the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother."
+\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his.  Whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
 \v 10 What he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him also.
  
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-\v 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah, my son, grows up." For he thought, "Lest he also die like his brothers." Tamar left and lived in her father’s house.
+\v 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house until Shelah, my son, grows up." For he thought, "Lest he also die like his brothers." Tamar left and lived in her father's house.
  
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-\v 12 After a long time, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
+\v 12 After a long time, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
 \v 13 Tamar was told, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
 \v 14 She took off the clothing of her widowhood and covered herself with her veil and wrapped herself. She sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up but she had not been given to him as a wife.
  
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 \v 19 She got up and went away. She took off her veil and put on the clothing of her widowhood.
-\v 20 Judah sent the young goat from the flock with his friend the Adullamite to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he did not find her.
+\v 20 Judah sent the young goat from the flock with his friend the Adullamite to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.
  
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 \v 21 Then the Adullamite asked the men of the place, "Where is the cultic prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has not been a cultic prostitute here."
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
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 \v 24 It came about after about three months that it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has committed prostitution, and indeed, she is pregnant by it." Judah said, "Bring her here and let her be burned."
 \v 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law a message, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She said, "Determine please whose these are, the seal and cords and staff."
-\v 26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more right than I am, since I did not give her as a wife to Shelah, my son.” He did not make love to her again.
+\v 26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more right than I am, since I did not give her as a wife to Shelah, my son." He did not make love to her again.
  
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 \v 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He served Potiphar. Potiphar made Joseph manager over his house, and everything that he possessed, he put under his care.
  
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-\v 5 It came about from the time that he made him manager over his house and over everything he possessed, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph. The blessing of Yahweh was on everything that Potiphar had in the house and in the field.
-\v 6 Potiphar put everything that he had under Joseph’s care. He did not have to think about anything except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive.
+\v 5 It came about from the time that he made him manager over his house and over everything he possessed, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph. The blessing of Yahweh was on everything that Potiphar had in the house and in the field.
+\v 6 Potiphar put everything that he had under Joseph's care. He did not have to think about anything except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive.
  
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-\v 7 It came about after this that his master’s wife lusted for Joseph. She said, "Sleep with me."
-\v 8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, "Look, my master does not pay attention to what I do in the house, and he has put everything that he owns under my care.
-\v 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. He has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
+\v 7 It came about after this that his master's wife lusted for Joseph. She said, "Sleep with me."
+\v 8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not pay attention to what I do in the house, and he has put everything that he owns under my care.
+\v 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. He has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"
  
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 \v 10 She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her or to be with her.
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 \v 19 It came about that, when his master heard the explanation his wife told him, "This is what your servant did to me," he became very angry.
-\v 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. He was there in the prison.
+\v 20 Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. He was there in the prison.
  
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 \v 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph and showed covenant faithfulness to him. He gave him favor in the sight of the prison warden.
-\v 22 The prison warden committed to Joseph’s care all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, Joseph was in charge of it.
+\v 22 The prison warden committed to Joseph's care all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, Joseph was in charge of it.
 \v 23 The prison warden did not worry about anything that was under his care, because Yahweh was with him. Whatever he did, Yahweh prospered.
  
 

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 \v 6 Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them. Behold, they were sad.
-\v 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
+\v 7 He asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
 \v 8 They said to him, "We have both dreamed a dream and no one can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me, please."
  
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 \v 9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph. He said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me.
 \v 10 In the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms came out and the clusters of grapes ripened.
-\v 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand. I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I placed the cup into Pharaoh’s hand."
+\v 11 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand. I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I placed the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
  
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 \v 12 Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days.
-\v 13 Within three days Pharaoh will raise your head and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, just as when you were his cupbearer.
+\v 13 Within three days Pharaoh will raise your head and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand, just as when you were his cupbearer.
  
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 \v 14 But think of me when it goes well with you, and please show kindness to me. Mention me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison.
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 \v 19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree. The birds will eat your flesh off you."
  
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-\v 20 It came about on the third day that it was Pharaoh’s birthday. He made a feast for all his servants. He paid special attention to the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, more than to all his other servants.
-\v 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his responsibility, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand again.
+\v 20 It came about on the third day that it was Pharaoh's birthday. He made a feast for all his servants. He paid special attention to the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, more than to all his other servants.
+\v 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his responsibility, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand again.
 \v 22 But he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
 \v 23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember to help Joseph. Instead, he forgot about him.
  

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 \v 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph.  They quickly took him out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
 \v 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, but there is no interpreter for it. But I have heard about you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
-\v 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me. God will answer Pharaoh with favor.”
+\v 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me. God will answer Pharaoh with favor."
  
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@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ explain it to me."
 \v 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt."
  
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-\v 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph’s hand. He clothed him with clothes of fine linen, and put a gold chain on his neck.
+\v 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand. He clothed him with clothes of fine linen, and put a gold chain on his neck.
 \v 43 He had him ride in the second chariot which he possessed. Men shouted before him, "Bend the knee." Pharaoh put him over all the land of Egypt.
  
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 \v 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and apart from you, no man will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
-\v 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name "Zaphenath Paneah." He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as a wife. Joseph’s authority was over all Egypt.
+\v 45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name "Zaphenath Paneah." He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as a wife. Joseph's authority was over all Egypt.
                              
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 \v 50 Joseph had two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
-\v 51 Joseph called the name of his firstborn Manasseh, for  he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household."
+\v 51 Joseph called the name of his firstborn Manasseh, for  he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."
 \v 52 He called the name of the second son Ephraim, for he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
  
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 \v 1 Now Jacob became aware that there was grain in Egypt. He said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
 \v 2 He said, "See here, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there so we may live and not die."
-\v 3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
-\v 4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he said, "Lest harm may perhaps happen to him."
+\v 3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
+\v 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he said, "Lest harm may perhaps happen to him."
  
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 \v 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
-\v 6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
+\v 6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
  
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 \v 7 Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke harshly with them. He said to them, "Where have you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
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 \v 9 Joseph remembered the dreams that he had had about them. He said to them, "You are spies. You came to see the undefended parts of the land."
 \v 10 They said to him, "No, my master.  Your servants have come to buy food.
-\v 11 We are all one man’s sons. We are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
+\v 11 We are all one man's sons. We are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
  
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 \v 12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the undefended parts of the land."
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 \v 23 They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
 \v 24 He turned from them and wept. He returned to them and spoke to them. He took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
-\v 25 Then Joseph commanded his servants to fill his brothers’ bags with grain, and to put every man’s money back into his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. It was done for them.
+\v 25 Then Joseph commanded his servants to fill his brothers' bags with grain, and to put every man's money back into his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. It was done for them.
  
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-\v 35 It came about as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
+\v 35 It came about as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
 \v 36 Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no longer alive, Simeon is gone, and you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
  
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 \v 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon."
-\v 17 The steward did as Joseph said. He brought the men to Joseph’s house.
+\v 17 The steward did as Joseph said. He brought the men to Joseph's house.
  
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-\v 18 The men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said, "It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we were brought in, that he may seek an opportunity against us. He might arrest us and take us as slaves, and take our donkeys.”
-\v 19 They approached the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
+\v 18 The men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house. They said, "It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we were brought in, that he may seek an opportunity against us. He might arrest us and take us as slaves, and take our donkeys."
+\v 19 They approached the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
 \v 20 saying, "My master, we came down the first time to buy food.
  
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-\v 21 It came about, when we reached the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the opening of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hands.
+\v 21 It came about, when we reached the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the opening of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hands.
 \v 22 Other money we have also brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."
 \v 23 The steward said, "Peace be to you, do not fear. Your God and the God of your father must have put your money in your sacks. I received your money." The steward then brought Simeon out to them.
  
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-\v 24 The steward took the men into Joseph’s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave feed to their donkeys.
-\v 25 They prepared the gifts for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they had heard that they would eat there.
+\v 24 The steward took the men into Joseph's house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave feed to their donkeys.
+\v 25 They prepared the gifts for Joseph's coming at noon, for they had heard that they would eat there.
  
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
  
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 \v 28 They said, "Your servant our father is well. He is still alive." They prostrated and bowed down.
-\v 29 He lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother’s son, saying, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
+\v 29 He lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, saying, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
  
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 \v 30 Joseph hurried to go out of the room, for he was deeply moved about his brother. He sought somewhere to weep. He went to his room and wept there.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
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 \v 32 The servants served Joseph by himself and the brothers by themselves. The Egyptians there ate with him by themselves because the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is detestable to the Egyptians.
 \v 33 The brothers sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. The men were astonished together.
-\v 34 Joseph sent portions to them from the food in front of him. But Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of his brothers. They drank and were merry with him.
+\v 34 Joseph sent portions to them from the food in front of him. But Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of his brothers. They drank and were merry with him.
  
 
 

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-\v 1 Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s opening.
-\v 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s opening of the youngest,  and also his money for the grain." The steward did as Joseph had said.
+\v 1 Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's opening.
+\v 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's opening of the youngest,  and also his money for the grain." The steward did as Joseph had said.
 
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 \v 3 The morning dawned, and the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
@@ -16,27 +16,27 @@
 \v 7 They said to him, "Why does my master speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they would do such a thing.
 
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-\v 8 Look, the money that we found in our sacks’ openings, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then could we steal out of your master’s house silver or gold?
-\v 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my master’s slaves."
+\v 8 Look, the money that we found in our sacks' openings, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then could we steal out of your master's house silver or gold?
+\v 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my master's slaves."
 \v 10 The steward said, "Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom the cup is found will be my slave, and you others will be innocent."
 
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 \v 11 Then each man hurried and brought his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
-\v 12 The steward searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
+\v 12 The steward searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
 \v 13 Then they tore their clothes. Each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
 
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 \p
-\v 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they bowed before him to the ground.
+\v 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house. He was still there, and they bowed before him to the ground.
 \v 15 Joseph said to them, "What is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me practices divination?"
 
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-\v 16 Judah said, "What can we say to my master? What can we speak? Or how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Look, we are my master’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup was found."
+\v 16 Judah said, "What can we say to my master? What can we speak? Or how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Look, we are my master's slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup was found."
 \v 17 Joseph said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup was found, that person will be my slave, but as for you others, go up in peace to your father."
 
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 \p
-\v 18 Then Judah came near to him and said, "My master, please let your servant speak a word in my master’s ears, and do let your anger burn against your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
+\v 18 Then Judah came near to him and said, "My master, please let your servant speak a word in my master's ears, and do let your anger burn against your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
 \v 19 My master asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'
 
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 \v 23 And you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
 \v 24 And it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my master.
 \v 25 And our father said, 'Go again, buy us some food.'
-\v 26 And we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down, for we will not be able to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
+\v 26 And we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down, for we will not be able to see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
 
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 \v 27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 \v 29 And if you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol.'
 
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-\v 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy’s life,
+\v 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life,
 \v 31 it will come about, when he sees that the boy is not with us that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to sheol.
 \v 32 For your servant became a guarantee for the boy to my father and said, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the guilt to my father forever.'
 

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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
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 \v 9 Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, God has made me master of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.
-\v 10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.
+\v 10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.
 \v 11 I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine, so that you do not come to poverty, you, your household, and all that you have.'
 
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@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
 \v 13 You will tell my father about all my power in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You will hurry and bring my father down here."
 
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-\v 14 He hugged his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
+\v 14 He hugged his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
 \v 15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After that his brothers talked with him.
 
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 \p
-\v 16 The news of the matter was told in Pharaoh’s house: "Joseph’s brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh and his servants very much.
+\v 16 The news of the matter was told in Pharaoh's house: "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh and his servants very much.
 \v 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your animals and go to the land of Canaan.
 \v 18 Get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
 

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@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@
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 \v 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba. The sons of Israel transported Jacob their father, their children, and their wives, in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
 \v 6 They took their livestock and their possessions that they had accumulated in the land of Canaan. They came into Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
-\v 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants.
+\v 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his descendants.
 
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-\v 8 These are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn;
+\v 8 These are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn;
 \v 9 the sons of Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;
 \v 10 the sons of Simeon, Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman;
 \v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 \v 18 (these were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. These she bore to Jacob, sixteen persons);
 
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-\v 19 the sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife—Joseph and Benjamin;
+\v 19 the sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife—Joseph and Benjamin;
 \v 20 (to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him);
 \v 21 the sons of Benjamin Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard
 \v 22 (these were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob. All these persons were fourteen in number);
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 \v 25 (these were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. These she bore to Jacob. All these persons were seven in number).
 
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-\v 26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his descendants, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives—all these persons were sixty-six in number.
+\v 26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives—all these persons were sixty-six in number.
 \v 27 The sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two in number. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
 
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 \v 30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
 
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-\v 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s house, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, saying, 'My brothers and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
+\v 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's house, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, saying, 'My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
 \v 32 The men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock. They have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.'
 
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 \v 3  Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as  our ancestors."
-\v 4 Then they said to Pharaoh, "We come as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan.  So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."
+\v 4 Then they said to Pharaoh, "We come as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants' flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan.  So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."
 
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 \v 5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
 
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 \v 11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them a territory in the land of Egypt, the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
-\v 12  Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according the number of their dependents.
+\v 12  Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according the number of their dependents.
 
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 \v 13 Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.
-\v 14 Joseph gathered all the money that was in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, by selling grain to the inhabitants. Then Joseph brought the money to Pharaoh’s palace.
+\v 14 Joseph gathered all the money that was in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, by selling grain to the inhabitants. Then Joseph brought the money to Pharaoh's palace.
 
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 \v 15 When all the money of the lands of Egypt and  Canaan was spent, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying, "Give us food! Why should we die in your presence because our money is gone?"
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@
 \v 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph. Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, for the flocks, for the herds, and for the donkeys. He fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.
 
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-\v 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We will not hide from my master that our money is all gone, and the herds of cattle are my master’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my master, except our bodies and our land.
+\v 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We will not hide from my master that our money is all gone, and the herds of cattle are my master's. There is nothing left in the sight of my master, except our bodies and our land.
 \v 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."
 
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-\v 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was very severe. In this way, the land became Pharaoh’s.
+\v 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was very severe. In this way, the land became Pharaoh's.
 \v 21 As for the people, he made them slaves from one end of  Egypt's border to the other end.
 \v 22 It was only the land of the priests that Joseph did not buy, because the priests were given an allowance. They ate from the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.
 
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
 \v 24 At the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field and for food for your households and your children."
 
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-\v 25 They said, "You have saved our lives. May we find favor in your eyes. We will be Pharaoh’s servants."
-\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
+\v 25 They said, "You have saved our lives. May we find favor in your eyes. We will be Pharaoh's servants."
+\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
 
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-\v 8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, "Whose are these?"
+\v 8 When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Whose are these?"
 \v 9 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." Israel said, "Bring them to me, that I may bless them."
 \v 10 Now Israel's eyes were failing because of his age, so he could not see. So Joseph brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
 
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 \v 11 Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face again, but God has even allowed me to see your children."
 \v 12 Joseph brought them out from between Israel's knees, and then he bowed with his face to the earth.
-\v 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them close to him.
+\v 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them close to him.
 
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-\v 14 Israel reached out with his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head. He crossed his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
+\v 14 Israel reached out with his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head. He crossed his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
 \v 15 Israel blessed Joseph, saying, 
 \q "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, 
 \q the God who has cared for me to this day,
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 \m
 
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-\v 17 When Joseph saw his father place his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
+\v 17 When Joseph saw his father place his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
 \v 18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head."
 
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 \q outstanding in dignity, and outstanding in power.
 \q
 \v 4 Uncontrollable as rushing water, you will not have the preeminence,
-\q because you went up to your father’s bed.
+\q because you went up to your father's bed.
 \q Then you defiled it; you went up to my couch.
 
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@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@ the future.
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 \q2
 \v 8 Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
-\q Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
+\q Your father's sons will bow down before you.
 
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 \q
-\v 9 Judah is a lion’s cub. My son, you have gone up from your victims.
+\v 9 Judah is a lion's cub. My son, you have gone up from your victims.
 \q He stooped down, he crouched like a lion, like a lioness. Who would dare to awaken him?
 
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 \q
-\v 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
+\v 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
 \q until Shiloh comes. The nations will obey him.
 
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 \q
-\v 11 Binding his young horse to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
+\v 11 Binding his young horse to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,
 \q he has washed his garments in wine, and his robe in the blood of grapes.
 \q
 \v 12 His eyes will be as dark as wine, and his teeth as white as milk.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ the future.
 \v 16 Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
 \q
 \v 17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous snake in the path
-\q that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
+\q that bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
 \q
 \v 18 I wait for your salvation, Yahweh.
 

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-\v 1 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
+\v 1 Then Joseph hugged his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.
 \v 2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
 \v 3 They took forty days, for that was the full time  for embalming. The Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
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 \v 7 Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the officials of Pharaoh, the courtiers of his household, and all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
-\v 8 with all Joseph's household and his brothers, and his father’s household. But  they left their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, in the land of Goshen.
+\v 8 with all Joseph's household and his brothers, and his father's household. But  they left their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, in the land of Goshen.
 \v 9 Chariots and horsemen also went with him. It was a very large group of people.
 
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-\v 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the evil that we did to him?"
+\v 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the evil that we did to him?"
 \v 16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave instructions before he died, saying,
 \v 17 'Tell  Joseph this, "Please forgive your brothers and the wrong they committed when they treated you so badly."' Now please forgive  the servants of the God of your father."  Joseph wept when the message was brought to him.
 
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 
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-\v 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, together with his father’s family. He lived one hundred ten years.
-\v 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. He also saw the children of Machir son of Manasseh. They were "born on his knees." 
+\v 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, together with his father's family. He lived one hundred ten years.
+\v 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. He also saw the children of Machir son of Manasseh. They were "born on his knees." 
 
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 \v 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will  surely come to you and lead you up out of this land to the land which he swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

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 \v 5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river while her attendants walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her attendant to get it.
-\v 6 When she opened it, she saw the child. Behold, the baby was crying. She had compassion on him and said, "This is certainly one of the Hebrews’ children."
+\v 6 When she opened it, she saw the child. Behold, the baby was crying. She had compassion on him and said, "This is certainly one of the Hebrews' children."
 
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-\v 7 Then the baby's sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Should I go and find you a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?"
-\v 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Go." So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.
+\v 7 Then the baby's sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and find you a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?"
+\v 8 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.
 
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-\v 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to the baby's mother, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay you wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
-\v 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and said, "Because I drew him from the water."
+\v 9 Pharaoh's daughter said to the baby's mother, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay you wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
+\v 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and said, "Because I drew him from the water."
 
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 \v 15 Now when Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. There he sat down by a well.
 \p
-\v 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came, drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
+\v 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came, drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
 \v 17 The shepherds came and tried to drive them away, but Moses went and helped them. Then he watered their flock.
 
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 \v 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together. Say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me and said, "I have indeed observed you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
 \v 17 I have promised to bring you up from the oppression in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,  Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'
-\v 18 They will listen to you. You and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt, and you must tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, in order that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
+\v 18 They will listen to you. You and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt, and you must tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, in order that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
 
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 \v 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, unless his hand is forced.

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 \v 10 Then Moses said to Yahweh, "Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."
-\v 11 Yahweh said to him, "Who is it who made man’s mouth? Who makes a man mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
+\v 11 Yahweh said to him, "Who is it who made man's mouth? Who makes a man mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
 \v 12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say."
 \v 13 But Moses said, "Lord, please send anyone else, anyone whom you wish to send."
 

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 \v 12 So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
 \v 13 The taskmasters kept urging them and saying, "Finish your work, just as when straw was given to you."
-\v 14 Pharaoh’s taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, "Why have you not produced all the  bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?"
+\v 14 Pharaoh's taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, "Why have you not produced all the  bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?"
 
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-\v 14 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These were the clan ancestors of Reuben.
+\v 14 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These were the clan ancestors of Reuben.
 \v 15 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul—the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clan ancestors of Simeon.
 
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 \v 19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These became the clan ancestors of the Levites, together with their descendants.
 
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-\v 20 Amram married Jochebed, his father’s sister. She bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years and then died.
+\v 20 Amram married Jochebed, his father's sister. She bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years and then died.
 \v 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
 \v 22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
 
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 \v 24 The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clan ancestors of the Korahites.
-\v 25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, married one of the daughters of Putiel. She bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses among the Levites, together with their descendants.
+\v 25 Eleazar, Aaron's son, married one of the daughters of Putiel. She bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers' houses among the Levites, together with their descendants.
 
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 \v 2 You will say everything that I command you to say. Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh so that he will let the people of Israel go from his land.
 
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-\v 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will display many signs of my power, many wonders, in the land of Egypt.
+\v 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will display many signs of my power, many wonders, in the land of Egypt.
 \v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will put my hand on Egypt and bring out my groups of fighting men, my people, the descendants  of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of punishment.
 \v 5 The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I reach out with my hand on Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them."
 
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 \v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for his wise men and sorcerers. They did the same thing by their magic. 
-\v 12 Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their snakes.
-\v 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen, just as Yahweh had foretold.
+\v 12 Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their snakes.
+\v 13 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen, just as Yahweh had foretold.
 
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-\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh’s heart is hard, and he refuses to let the people go.
+\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hard, and he refuses to let the people go.
 \v 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Stand on the riverbank to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that had turned into a snake.
 
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 \v 20 Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh commanded. Aaron raised the staff and struck the water in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants. All the water in the river turned to blood.
 \v 21 The fish in the river died, and the river began to stink. The Egyptians could not drink water from the river, and the blood was everywhere in the land of Egypt.
-\v 22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their magic. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as Yahweh had said would happen.
+\v 22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their magic. So Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as Yahweh had said would happen.
 
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 \v 18 The magicians tried with their magic to produce gnats, but they could not. There were gnats on man and beast.
-\v 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, so he refused to listen to them. It was just as Yahweh had said Pharaoh would do.
+\v 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, so he refused to listen to them. It was just as Yahweh had said Pharaoh would do.
 
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 \v 22 But on that day I treat the land of Goshen differently, the land in which my people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there. This will happen so that you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of this land.
 \v 23 I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign of my power will take place tomorrow."'"
-\v 24 Yahweh did so, and thick swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's house and into his servants’ houses. Throughout the whole land of Egypt, the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.
+\v 24 Yahweh did so, and thick swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's house and into his servants' houses. Throughout the whole land of Egypt, the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.
 
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 \v 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in our own land."
 \v 26 Moses said, "It is not right for us to do so, for the  sacrifices we make to Yahweh our God are something disgusting to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices right before their eyes that are disgusting to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?
-\v 27 No, it is a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we must make, in order to sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he commands us."
+\v 27 No, it is a three days' journey into the wilderness that we must make, in order to sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he commands us."
 
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 \v 6 They will fill your houses, those of all your servants,  and those of all the Egyptians—something neither your father nor your grandfather ever saw, nothing ever seen since the day that they were on the earth to this present day.'"  Then Moses left and went out from Pharaoh.
 
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-\v 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, "How long will this man be a menace to us? Let the Israelites go so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
+\v 7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a menace to us? Let the Israelites go so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
 \v 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, who said to them, "Go worship Yahweh your God. But what people will go?"
 
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 \v 10 Pharaoh said to them, "May Yahweh indeed be with you, if I ever let you go and your little ones go. Look, you have some evil in mind.
-\v 11 No! Go, just the men among you, and worship Yahweh, for that is what you want." Then Moses and Aaron were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
+\v 11 No! Go, just the men among you, and worship Yahweh, for that is what you want." Then Moses and Aaron were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
 
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 \v 19 Yahweh brought a very strong west wind that picked up the locusts and drove them into the sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
-\v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go.
+\v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go.
 
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 \v 26 Our cattle must also go with us; not a hoof of them may be left behind, for we must take them to worship Yahweh our God. For we do not know with what we must worship Yahweh until we arrive there."
 
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-\v 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.
+\v 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
 \v 28 Pharaoh said to Moses, "Go from me! Be careful about one thing, that you do not see me again, for on the day you see my face, you will die."
 \v 29 Moses said, "You yourself have spoken. I will not see your face again."
  

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 \v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "There is still one more plague that I will bring on Pharaoh and Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he finally lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
 \v 2 Instruct the people that every man and woman is to ask of his or her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold."
-\v 3 Now Yahweh had made the Egyptians eager to please the Israelites. Moreover, the man Moses was very impressive in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and the people of Egypt.
+\v 3 Now Yahweh had made the Egyptians eager to please the Israelites. Moreover, the man Moses was very impressive in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and the people of Egypt.
 
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 \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you. This is so that I will do many amazing things in the land of Egypt."
-\v 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
+\v 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
 
 
 

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 \v 3 Pharaoh will say about the Israelites, 'They are wandering in the land. The wilderness has closed in on them.'
 
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-\v 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. I will get honor because of Pharaoh and all his army. The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." So the Israelites camped as they were instructed.
+\v 4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them. I will get honor because of Pharaoh and all his army. The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." So the Israelites camped as they were instructed.
 \v 5 When the king of Egypt was told that the Israelites had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his servants turned against the people. They said, "What have we done in letting Israel go free from working for us?"
 
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 \v 12 Is this not what we told you in Egypt? We said to you, 'Leave us alone, so we can work for the Egyptians. It would have been better for us to work for them than to die in the wilderness.'"
 
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-\v 13 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the rescue that Yahweh will provide for you today. For you will never see again the Egyptians whom you see today. 
-\v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you will only have to stand still.”
+\v 13 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the rescue that Yahweh will provide for you today. For you will never see again the Egyptians whom you see today. 
+\v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you will only have to stand still."
 
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-\v 15 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Why are you, Moses, continuing to call out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
+\v 15 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Why are you, Moses, continuing to call out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
 \v 16 Lift up your staff, reach out with your hand over the sea and divide it in two, so that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.
 \v 17 Be aware that I will harden the Egyptians' hearts so they will go after them. I will get  honor because of Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.
 \v 18 Then the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
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 \v 22 The Israelites went into the middle of the sea on dry ground. The waters formed a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
 
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-\v 23 The Egyptians pursued them. They went after them into the middle of the sea—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen.
+\v 23 The Egyptians pursued them. They went after them into the middle of the sea—all Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and horsemen.
 \v 24 But in the early morning hours, Yahweh looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud. He caused panic among the Egyptians.
 \v 25 Their chariot wheels were clogged, and the horsemen drove with difficulty. So the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for Yahweh is fighting for them against us."
 

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 \v 2 Yahweh is my strength and song,
 \q and he has become my salvation.
 \q This is my God, and I will praise him,
-\q my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
+\q my father's God, and I will exalt him.
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 \v 3 Yahweh is a warrior;
 \q Yahweh is his name.
 
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-\v 4 He has thrown Pharaoh’s chariots and army into the sea.
-\q Pharaoh’s chosen officers were drowned in the sea of Reeds.
+\v 4 He has thrown Pharaoh's chariots and army into the sea.
+\q Pharaoh's chosen officers were drowned in the sea of Reeds.
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 \v 5 The depths covered them;
 \q they went down into the depths like a stone.

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-\v 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people will go out and gather a day’s portion every day so that I may test them to see whether or not they will walk in my law.
+\v 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people will go out and gather a day's portion every day so that I may test them to see whether or not they will walk in my law.
 \v 5 It will come about on the sixth day, that they will gather twice as much as what they gathered every day before, and they will cook what they bring in."
 
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 \v 11 While Moses was holding his hands up, Israel was winning;  when he let his hands rest, Amalek would begin to win.
-\v 12 When Moses’ hands became heavy, Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him for him to sit on. At the same time, Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one person on one side of him, and the other person on the other side. So Moses' hands were held steady until the sun went down.
+\v 12 When Moses' hands became heavy, Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him for him to sit on. At the same time, Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one person on one side of him, and the other person on the other side. So Moses' hands were held steady until the sun went down.
 \v 13 So Joshua defeated the people of Amalek with the sword.
 
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-\v 1 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people. He heard that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
-\v 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home,
+\v 1 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people. He heard that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
+\v 2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home,
 \v 3 and her two sons; the name of the one son was Gershom, for Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land."
 \v 4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for Moses had said, "My ancestor's God was my help. He rescued me from Pharaoh's sword."
 
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-\v 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses' sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
+\v 5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with Moses' sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
 \v 6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."
 
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-\v 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake,  about all the hardships that had come to them along the way, and how Yahweh had rescued them.
+\v 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake,  about all the hardships that had come to them along the way, and how Yahweh had rescued them.
 
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 \v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, because when the Egyptians treated the Israelites arrogantly, God rescued his people."
 
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-\v 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat a meal before God with Moses’ father-in-law.
+\v 12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat a meal before God with Moses' father-in-law.
 
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 \v 13 On the next day Moses sat down to judge the people. The people stood around him from morning until evening.
-\v 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing with the people? Why is it that you sit alone and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?"
+\v 14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing with the people? Why is it that you sit alone and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?"
 
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 \v 16 When they have a dispute, they come to me. I decide between one person and another, and I teach them God's statutes and laws."
 
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-\v 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not very good.
+\v 17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not very good.
 \v 18 You will certainly wear out yourself and the people who come to you, because the burden is too heavy for you. You cannot do it yourself alone.
 \v 19 Listen to me. I will give you advice, and God will be with you, because you are the people's  representative to God, and you bring their disputes to him.
 \v 20 You must teach them his statutes and laws. You must show them the way to walk and the work to do.

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-\v 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
+\v 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
 \v 5 Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
 \v 6 You will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation for me. These are the words that you must speak to the people of Israel."
 

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-\v 17 You must not covet your neighbor’s house; you must not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
+\v 17 You must not covet your neighbor's house; you must not covet your neighbor's wife, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
 
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-\v 22 If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined, if the woman’s husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
+\v 22 If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined, if the woman's husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
 \v 23 But if there is serious injury, then you must give a life for a life,
 \v 24 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
 \v 25 a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, or a bruise for a bruise.
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-\v 35 If one man’s ox hurts another man's ox so that it dies, then they must sell the live ox and divide its price, and they must also divide the dead ox.
+\v 35 If one man's ox hurts another man's ox so that it dies, then they must sell the live ox and divide its price, and they must also divide the dead ox.
 \v 36 But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his own.
 
 

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-\v 5 If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and from the best of his own vineyard.
+\v 5 If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and from the best of his own vineyard.
 
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-\v 7 If a man gives money or goods to his neighbor for safe keeping, and if it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, that thief must pay double.
-\v 8 But if the thief is not found, then the owner of the house must come before the judges to see whether he has put his own hand on his neighbor’s property.
+\v 7 If a man gives money or goods to his neighbor for safe keeping, and if it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, that thief must pay double.
+\v 8 But if the thief is not found, then the owner of the house must come before the judges to see whether he has put his own hand on his neighbor's property.
 \v 9 For every dispute about something, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, "This belongs to me," the claim of  both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
 
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 \v 10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and if it dies or is hurt or is carried away without anyone seeing it,
-\v 11 an oath to Yahweh must be taken by them both, as to whether or not one person has put his hand on his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept this, and the other will make no restitution.
+\v 11 an oath to Yahweh must be taken by them both, as to whether or not one person has put his hand on his neighbor's property. The owner must accept this, and the other will make no restitution.
 \v 12 But if it was stolen from him, the other must make restitution to the owner for it.
 \v 13 If an animal was torn in pieces, let the other man bring the animal as evidence. He will not have to pay for what was torn.
 
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 \v 25 If you lend money to any of my people among you who are poor, you must not be like a moneylender to him or charge him interest.
-\v 26 If you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun goes down,
+\v 26 If you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun goes down,
 \v 27 for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? When he calls out to me, I will hear him, for I am compassionate.
 
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-\v 4 If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you must bring it back to him.
+\v 4 If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you must bring it back to him.
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 \v 18 You must not offer the blood from sacrifices made to me with bread containing yeast. The fat from the sacrifices at my festivals must not remain all night until the morning.
-\v 19 You must bring the choicest first fruits from your land into my house, the house of Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
+\v 19 You must bring the choicest first fruits from your land into my house, the house of Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
 
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 \v 3 These are the offerings that you must receive from them: gold, silver, bronze,
-\v 4 blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats’ hair;
+\v 4 blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats' hair;
 \v 5 ram skins dyed red and sea cow hides; acacia wood;
 \v 6 oil for the sanctuary lamps, spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense,
 \v 7 onyx stones and other precious stones to be set for the ephod and breastpiece.

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-\v 7 You must make curtains of goats’ hair for a tentlike covering over the tabernacle. You must make eleven of these curtains. 
+\v 7 You must make curtains of goats' hair for a tentlike covering over the tabernacle. You must make eleven of these curtains. 
 \v 8 The length of each curtain must be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain must be four cubits. Each of the eleven curtains must be of the same size.
 \v 9 You must join five curtains to each other and the other six curtains to each other. You must double over the sixth curtain in the front of the tent.
 

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 \v 1 Call to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar— from among the Israelites so that they may serve me as priests.
 \v 2 You must make for Aaron, your brother, garments that are dedicated to me. These garments will be for his honor and splendor.
-\v 3 You must speak to all people who are specially skilled, those whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron’s garments to set him apart to serve me as my priest.
+\v 3 You must speak to all people who are specially skilled, those whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron's garments to set him apart to serve me as my priest.
 
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 \v 4 The garments that they must make are a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of woven work, a turban, and a sash. They must make these garments that are dedicated to me. They will be for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests.
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 \v 29 When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of Israel's twelve sons in the breastpiece for decision making on his heart. This will serve as a constant reminder to Yahweh.
-\v 30 You must put in the breastpiece for decision making the Urim and the Thummim. They must be on Aaron’s breast when he goes in before Yahweh, and Aaron must constantly carry the decision making for the Israelites on his breast before Yahweh.
+\v 30 You must put in the breastpiece for decision making the Urim and the Thummim. They must be on Aaron's breast when he goes in before Yahweh, and Aaron must constantly carry the decision making for the Israelites on his breast before Yahweh.
 
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 \v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, DEDICATED TO YAHWEH.
 \v 37 You must attach this plate by a blue cord to the front of the turban.
-\v 38 It must be on Aaron’s forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites dedicated to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
+\v 38 It must be on Aaron's forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites dedicated to Yahweh. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
 
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 \v 39 You must make the coat with fine linen, and you must make a turban of fine linen. You must also make a sash, the work of an embroiderer.
 
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-\v 40 For Aaron’s sons you must make coats, sashes, and headbands for their honor and splendor.
+\v 40 For Aaron's sons you must make coats, sashes, and headbands for their honor and splendor.
 \v 41 You must clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. You must anoint them, ordain them, and dedicate them to me, so that they may serve me as priests.
 
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 \v 20 Then you must kill the ram and take some of its blood. Put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the tip of his sons' right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the great toe of their right feet. Then you must splash blood against the altar on every side.
 
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-\v 21 You must take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and splash it all on Aaron and on his garments, and also on his sons and on their garments. Aaron will then be set apart for me, as well as his garments, his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
+\v 21 You must take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and splash it all on Aaron and on his garments, and also on his sons and on their garments. Aaron will then be set apart for me, as well as his garments, his sons and his sons' garments with him.
 
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 \v 22 You must take the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh—for this ram is for the priests' consecration to me.
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-\v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron’s ram of dedication and raise it up and present it as an offering to me, Yahweh. Then it will be your portion to eat.
+\v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and raise it up and present it as an offering to me, Yahweh. Then it will be your portion to eat.
 \v 27 You must dedicate to me the breast of the offering that is raised high and the thigh of the offering that is presented—the breast that is raised and the thigh that is presented, both coming from the ram for the confirmation of Aaron and his sons to me.
 \v 28 These portions of meat, given by the Israelites, must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
 

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 \v 5 Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with Moses there, and he pronounced the name "Yahweh."
 \v 6 Yahweh passed by before him and proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness,
-\v 7 keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquities, transgressions, and sins. But he will by no means clear the guilty. He will bring the punishment for the fathers' sin on their children and on their children’s children, as far as the third and fourth generations."
+\v 7 keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquities, transgressions, and sins. But he will by no means clear the guilty. He will bring the punishment for the fathers' sin on their children and on their children's children, as far as the third and fourth generations."
 
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 \v 21 You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.
-\v 22 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year’s end.
+\v 22 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year's end.
 
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 \v 25 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with any yeast, nor may any meat from the sacrifice at the Festival of the Passover be left over to the morning.
-\v 26  You must bring the best of the first fruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk."
+\v 26  You must bring the best of the first fruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
 
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 \v 4 Moses spoke to all the community of the Israelites, saying, "This is the thing that Yahweh commanded.
 \v 5 Take an offering for Yahweh, all of you who have a willing heart. Bring an offering to Yahweh—gold, silver,  bronze,
-\v 6  blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats’ hair;
+\v 6  blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats' hair;
 \v 7 ram skins dyed red and sea cow hides; acacia wood;
 \v 8 oil for the sanctuary lamps, spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense,
 \v 9  onyx stones and other precious stones to be set for the ephod and breastpiece.

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 \v 4 He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and then it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for himself.
 
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-\v 5 Then he must kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will present the blood and splash it on the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
+\v 5 Then he must kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and splash it on the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 \v 6 Then he must skin the burnt offering and cut it to pieces.
 
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 \v 7 Then the sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar and place wood to feed the fire.
-\v 8 Aaron’s sons, the priests, are to place the pieces, the head and the fat, in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar.
+\v 8 Aaron's sons, the priests, are to place the pieces, the head and the fat, in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar.
 \v 9 But its inner parts and its legs he must wash with water. Then the priest will burn everything on the altar as a burnt offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
 
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 \v 10 If his offering for the burnt offering is from the flock, one of the sheep or one of the goats, he must offer a male without blemish.
-\v 11 He must kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splash its blood on every side of the altar.
+\v 11 He must kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will splash its blood on every side of the altar.
 
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03-LEV/02.usfm

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 \v 1 When anyone brings a  grain offering to Yahweh, his offering must be fine flour, and he will pour oil on it  and put incense on it.
-\v 2 He is to take the offering to Aaron’s sons the priests, and there the priest will take out a handful of the fine flour with the oil and the incense on it. Then the priest will burn the offering on the altar to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness. It will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
+\v 2 He is to take the offering to Aaron's sons the priests, and there the priest will take out a handful of the fine flour with the oil and the incense on it. Then the priest will burn the offering on the altar to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness. It will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
 \v 3 Whatever is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is completely dedicated to Yahweh from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
 
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 \v 1 If someone offers a sacrifice which is a fellowship offering of an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must offer an animal without blemish before Yahweh.
-\v 2 He will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+\v 2 He will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
 
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 \v 3 The man will offer the sacrifice of a fellowship offering by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers or is connected to the inner parts, 
 \v 4 and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the lobe of  the liver, with the kidneys—he will remove all of this.
-\v 5 Aaron’s sons will burn that on the altar with the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire. This will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
+\v 5 Aaron's sons will burn that on the altar with the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire. This will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
 
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 \v 6 If the man's sacrifice of a fellowship offering to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he must offer a sacrifice without blemish.
 \v 7 If he offers a lamb for his sacrifice, then he must offer it before Yahweh.
-\v 8 He will lay his hand on the head of his sacrifice and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+\v 8 He will lay his hand on the head of his sacrifice and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
 
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 \v 11 He sprinkled the oil on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the wash basin and its base, to  dedicate them to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him in order to  dedicate him to Yahweh.
-\v 13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons  and clothed them with tunics; he tied sashes around their waists and wrapped linen cloth around their heads, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him in order to  dedicate him to Yahweh.
+\v 13 Moses brought Aaron's sons  and clothed them with tunics; he tied sashes around their waists and wrapped linen cloth around their heads, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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 \v 22 Then Moses presented the other ram, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
-\v 23 Aaron killed it, and Moses took some of its  blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
-\v 24 He brought Aaron’s sons,  and he put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. Then Moses splashed its blood against every side of the altar.
+\v 23 Aaron killed it, and Moses took some of its  blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
+\v 24 He brought Aaron's sons,  and he put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. Then Moses splashed its blood against every side of the altar.
 
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 \v 28 Then Moses took them from off their hands and burned them on the altar for the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering and produced a sweet aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
-\v 29 Moses took the breast and raised it high as an offering to Yahweh. It was Moses’ share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 29 Moses took the breast and raised it high as an offering to Yahweh. It was Moses' share of the ram for the priests' ordination, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
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-\v 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil and the blood that was on the altar; he sprinkled these on Aaron, on his clothes, on his sons, and on his sons’ clothes with him. In this way he dedicated Aaron and his clothes, and his sons and their clothes to Yahweh.
+\v 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil and the blood that was on the altar; he sprinkled these on Aaron, on his clothes, on his sons, and on his sons' clothes with him. In this way he dedicated Aaron and his clothes, and his sons and their clothes to Yahweh.
 
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-\v 15 Aaron presented the people’s sacrifice—a goat, then took it as the sacrifice for their sin and killed it; he sacrificed it for sin, as he had done with the first goat.
+\v 15 Aaron presented the people's sacrifice—a goat, then took it as the sacrifice for their sin and killed it; he sacrificed it for sin, as he had done with the first goat.
 \v 16 He presented the burnt offering and offered it as Yahweh had commanded.
 \v 17 He presented the grain offering; he filled his hand with it and burned it on the altar, along with the morning's burnt offering.
 
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-\v 18 He killed also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice for the peace offering, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons gave him the blood, which he splashed against every side of the altar.
+\v 18 He killed also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice for the peace offering, which was for the people. Aaron's sons gave him the blood, which he splashed against every side of the altar.
 \v 19 However, the fat of the bull and the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the kidneys, and the covering of the liver—
 
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 \v 12 Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his remaining sons, "Take the grain offering that remains from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar, for it is most holy.
-\v 13 You must eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the offerings to Yahweh made by fire, for this is what I have been commanded to tell you.
+\v 13 You must eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons' share of the offerings to Yahweh made by fire, for this is what I have been commanded to tell you.
 
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-\v 14 The breast that is raised as an offering and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh—these you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share  and your sons’ share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
-\v 15 The thigh that is an offering presented to Yahweh and the breast that is raised as an offering—they must bring those together with the offerings of fat made by fire, to raise them high and present them as an offering to Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons’ with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
+\v 14 The breast that is raised as an offering and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh—these you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share  and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
+\v 15 The thigh that is an offering presented to Yahweh and the breast that is raised as an offering—they must bring those together with the offerings of fat made by fire, to raise them high and present them as an offering to Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
 
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-\v 40 If a man’s hair has fallen out of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.
+\v 40 If a man's hair has fallen out of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.
 \v 41 And if his hair has fallen out of  the front part of his head, and if his forehead is bald, he is clean.
 
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 \v 17 The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. He must put this oil on top of the blood from the guilt offering.
-\v 18 As for the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand, he will put it on the head of the person who is to be cleansed, and the priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh.
+\v 18 As for the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand, he will put it on the head of the person who is to be cleansed, and the priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh.
 
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-\v 16 If any man’s semen goes out from him spontaneously, then he must bathe his whole body in water; he will be unclean until evening.
+\v 16 If any man's semen goes out from him spontaneously, then he must bathe his whole body in water; he will be unclean until evening.
 \v 17 Every garment or leather on which there is semen must be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
 \v 18 And if a woman and a man sleep together and there is a transfer of semen to her, they must  both bathe themselves in water; they will be unclean until evening.
 

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 \v 31 It is a solemn Sabbath of rest for you, and you must humble yourselves and do no work. This will always be a statute among you.
 
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-\v 32 The high priest, the one who will be anointed and ordained to be high priest in his father’s place, he must make this atonement and put on the linen garments, that is, the holy garments. 
+\v 32 The high priest, the one who will be anointed and ordained to be high priest in his father's place, he must make this atonement and put on the linen garments, that is, the holy garments. 
 \v 33 He must make atonement for the most holy place; he must make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he must make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
 
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-\v 10 The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, that is, anyone who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—the adulterer and the adulteress must both certainly be put to death.
+\v 10 The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, that is, anyone who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife—the adulterer and the adulteress must both certainly be put to death.
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-\v 11 The man who lies down with his father’s wife to sleep with her has disgraced his own father. Both the son and his father's wife must certainly be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
+\v 11 The man who lies down with his father's wife to sleep with her has disgraced his own father. Both the son and his father's wife must certainly be put to death. They are guilty and deserve to die.
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-\v 17 If a man sleeps with his sister, either his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter—if he sleeps with her and she with him, it is a shameful thing. They must be cut off from the presence of their people, because he has slept with his sister. He must carry his guilt.
+\v 17 If a man sleeps with his sister, either his father's daughter or his mother's daughter—if he sleeps with her and she with him, it is a shameful thing. They must be cut off from the presence of their people, because he has slept with his sister. He must carry his guilt.
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 \v 18 If a man sleeps with a woman during her menstrual period and has slept with her, he has uncovered the flow of her blood, the source of her blood. Both the man and woman must be cut off from among their people.
 
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-\v 19 You must not sleep with your mother’s sister, nor with your father’s sister, because you would disgrace your close relative. You must carry your own guilt.
+\v 19 You must not sleep with your mother's sister, nor with your father's sister, because you would disgrace your close relative. You must carry your own guilt.
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-\v 20 If a man sleeps with his uncle’s wife, he has disgraced his uncle. They must carry their own guilt and die childless.
+\v 20 If a man sleeps with his uncle's wife, he has disgraced his uncle. They must carry their own guilt and die childless.
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-\v 21 If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity because he has had relations violating his brother's marriage, and they will be childless.
+\v 21 If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity because he has had relations violating his brother's marriage, and they will be childless.
 
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-\v 12 If a priest’s daughter married someone who is not a priest, she may not eat any of the holy contribution offerings.
-\v 13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and if she has no child, and if she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food. But no one who is not in the priestly family may eat from the priest's food.
+\v 12 If a priest's daughter married someone who is not a priest, she may not eat any of the holy contribution offerings.
+\v 13 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and if she has no child, and if she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat from her father's food. But no one who is not in the priestly family may eat from the priest's food.
 
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 \v 4 These are the appointed festivals of Yahweh, the holy assemblies that you must announce at their appointed times:
-\v 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is Yahweh’s Passover.
+\v 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is Yahweh's Passover.
 \v 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread for Yahweh. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
 
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 \v 10 Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against an Israelite man in the camp. 
-\v 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name of Yahweh and cursed God, so the people brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.
+\v 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name of Yahweh and cursed God, so the people brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.
 \v 12 They held him in custody until Yahweh himself should declare his will  to them.
 
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-\v 47 If a foreigner or someone living temporarily with you has become wealthy, and if one of your fellow Israelites has become poor and sells himself to that foreigner, or to someone in a foreigner’s family,
+\v 47 If a foreigner or someone living temporarily with you has become wealthy, and if one of your fellow Israelites has become poor and sells himself to that foreigner, or to someone in a foreigner's family,
 \v 48 after your fellow Israelite has been bought, he may be bought back. Someone in his family may redeem him. 
 
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+\v 49 It might be the person's uncle, or his uncle's son, who redeems him, or anyone who is his close relative from his family. Or, if he has become prosperous, he may redeem himself.
 \v 50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the  number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
 
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-\v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies’ lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
+\v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies' lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
 \v 35 As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.
 \v 36 As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send  fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.
 
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 \v 38 You will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will itself devour you.
-\v 39 Those who are left among you will waste away in their sins, there in your enemies’ lands, and because of their fathers' sins they will waste away as well.
+\v 39 Those who are left among you will waste away in their sins, there in your enemies' lands, and because of their fathers' sins they will waste away as well.
 
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 \v 21 Instead, the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, will be a holy gift to Yahweh, like the field that has been completely given to Yahweh. It will belong to the priest.
 
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-\v 22 If a man dedicates to Yahweh a field that he has bought, but that field is not part of his family’s land, 
+\v 22 If a man dedicates to Yahweh a field that he has bought, but that field is not part of his family's land, 
 \v 23 then the priest will figure the estimated value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.
  
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-\v 30 All the tithe of the land, whether grain grown on the land or fruit from the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.
+\v 30 All the tithe of the land, whether grain grown on the land or fruit from the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.
 \v 31 If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
  
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-\v 33 The shepherd must not search for the better or the worse animals, and he must not substitute one for another. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy. It cannot be redeemed.'”
+\v 32 As for all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, one tenth must be dedicated to Yahweh. 
+\v 33 The shepherd must not search for the better or the worse animals, and he must not substitute one for another. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy. It cannot be redeemed.'"
  
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-\v 16 These were the men appointed from the people. They led their ancestors’ tribes. They were the leaders of the clans in Israel.
+\v 16 These were the men appointed from the people. They led their ancestors' tribes. They were the leaders of the clans in Israel.
  
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-\v 20 From the descendants of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 20 From the descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 21 They counted 46,500 men from the tribe of Reuben. 
  
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-\v 22 From the descendants of Simeon were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 22 From the descendants of Simeon were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 23 They counted 59,300 men from the tribe of Simeon.
  
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-\v 24 From the descendants of Gad were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families. 
+\v 24 From the descendants of Gad were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families. 
 \v 25 They counted 45,650 men from the tribe of Gad. 
  
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-\v 26 From the descendants of Judah were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 26 From the descendants of Judah were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 27 They counted 74,600 men from the tribe of Judah. 
  
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-\v 28 From the descendants of Issachar were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 28 From the descendants of Issachar were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 29 They counted 54,400 men from the tribe of Issachar. 
  
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-\v 30 From the descendants of Zebulun were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 30 From the descendants of Zebulun were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 31 They counted 57,400 men from the tribe of Zebulun.
  
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-\v 32 From the descendants of Ephraim son of Joseph were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families. 
+\v 32 From the descendants of Ephraim son of Joseph were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families. 
 \v 33 They counted 40,500 men from the tribe of Ephraim.
  
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-\v 34 From the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 34 From the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 35 They counted 32,200 men from the tribe of Manasseh.
  
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-\v 36 From the descendants of Benjamin were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 36 From the descendants of Benjamin were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 37 They counted 35,400 men from the tribe of Benjamin.
  
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-\v 38 From the descendants of Dan were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 38 From the descendants of Dan were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 39 They counted 62,700 from the tribe of Dan.
  
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-\v 40 From the descendants of Asher were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 40 From the descendants of Asher were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 41 They counted 41,500 men from the tribe of Asher.
  
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-\v 42 From the descendants of Naphtali were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor’s clans and families.
+\v 42 From the descendants of Naphtali were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
 \v 43 They counted 53,400 from the tribe of Naphtali.
  
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-\v 32 Moses and Aaron counted by their ancestor’s  clans 603,550 men in the armies of the people of Israel.
+\v 32 Moses and Aaron counted by their ancestor's  clans 603,550 men in the armies of the people of Israel.
 \v 33 But Moses and Aaron did not count the Levites among the people of Israel. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
  
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-\v 34 The people of Israel did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They camped by their banners. They went out from the camp by their clans, in the order of their ancestor’s families.
+\v 34 The people of Israel did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They camped by their banners. They went out from the camp by their clans, in the order of their ancestor's families.
 
 
 

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 \v 1 Now this is the history of the descendants of Aaron and Moses when Yahweh spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
-\v 2 The names of Aaron’s sons were Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
+\v 2 The names of Aaron's sons were Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
  
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 \v 14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. He said,
-\v 15 "Count the descendants of Levi in each family, in their ancestor’s houses. Count every male who is one month old and older."
-\v 16 Moses counted them, following the directions given to them by Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded.
+\v 15 "Count the descendants of Levi in each family, in their ancestor's houses. Count every male who is one month old and older."
+\v 16 Moses counted them, following the directions given to them by Yahweh's word, as Yahweh commanded.
  
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 \v 40 Yahweh said to Moses, "Count all the firstborn males of the people of Israel who are aged one month old and older. List their names.
-\v 41 You must take the Levites for me instead of all the firstborn of the people of Israel. I am Yahweh. And you must take the Levites’ livestock instead of all the firstborn livestock of the descendants of Israel."
+\v 41 You must take the Levites for me instead of all the firstborn of the people of Israel. I am Yahweh. And you must take the Levites' livestock instead of all the firstborn livestock of the descendants of Israel."
  
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 \v 44 Again, Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel. And take the Levites’ livestock instead of the people’s livestock. The Levites belong to me. I am Yahweh.
+\v 45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel. And take the Levites' livestock instead of the people's livestock. The Levites belong to me. I am Yahweh.
  
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 \v 46 You must collect five shekels for the redemption of each of the 273 firstborn people of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites.
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 \v 49 So Moses collected the payment of redemption from those who exceeded the number of those redeemed by the Levites.
 \v 50 Moses collected the money from the firstborn of the people of Israel. He collected 1,365 shekels, weighing with the shekel of the sanctuary.
-\v 51 Moses gave the buy-back money to Aaron and to his sons. Moses did everything he was told to do by Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 51 Moses gave the buy-back money to Aaron and to his sons. Moses did everything he was told to do by Yahweh's word, as Yahweh had commanded him.
 
 
 

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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He said,
-\v 2 "Conduct a census of the male descendants of Kohath from among the Levites, by their clans and ancestor’s  families.
+\v 2 "Conduct a census of the male descendants of Kohath from among the Levites, by their clans and ancestor's  families.
 \v 3 Count all the men who are thirty to fifty years old. These men must join the company to serve in the tent of meeting.
 \v 4 The descendants of Kohath must take care of the most holy things reserved for me in the tent of meeting.
  
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 \v 21 Yahweh spoke again to Moses. He said,
-\v 22 "Conduct a census of the descendants of Gershon also, by their ancestor’s families, by their clans.
+\v 22 "Conduct a census of the descendants of Gershon also, by their ancestor's families, by their clans.
 \v 23 Count those who are thirty years old to fifty years old. Count all of them who will join the company to serve in the tent of meeting.
  
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 \v 48 They counted 8,580 men.
  
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-\v 49 At Yahweh’s command, Moses counted each man, keeping count of each by the type of work he was assigned to do. He counted each man by the kind of responsibility he would bear. In doing this, they obeyed what Yahweh had commanded them to do through Moses.
+\v 49 At Yahweh's command, Moses counted each man, keeping count of each by the type of work he was assigned to do. He counted each man by the kind of responsibility he would bear. In doing this, they obeyed what Yahweh had commanded them to do through Moses.
 
 
 

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 \v 8 But if the wronged person has no close relative to receive the payment, he must pay the price for his guilt to me through a priest, along with a ram to atone for himself.
 \v 9 Every offering presented to a priest from all the holy things, the things set aside for me by the people of Israel, will belong to that priest.
-\v 10 Every man’s holy things will belong to the priest. Whatever a man gives to the priest will belong to that priest."
+\v 10 Every man's holy things will belong to the priest. Whatever a man gives to the priest will belong to that priest."
  
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 \v 11 Again, Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 12 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘Suppose that a man’s wife turns away and sins against her husband.
+\v 12 "Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Suppose that a man's wife turns away and sins against her husband.
  
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 \v 24 The priest must make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the curse. The water that brings the curse will enter her and become bitter.
-\v 25 The priest must take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand. He must hold up the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it to the altar.
+\v 25 The priest must take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand. He must hold up the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it to the altar.
 \v 26 The priest must take a handful of the grain offering, a portion of it, and burn it on the altar. Then he must give the woman the bitter water to drink.
  
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 \v 4 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 5 "Accept the offerings from them and use the offerings for the work in the tent of meeting. Give the offerings to the Levites, to each one as his work needs them.”
+\v 5 "Accept the offerings from them and use the offerings for the work in the tent of meeting. Give the offerings to the Levites, to each one as his work needs them."
  
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 \v 13 But any person who is clean and is not on a journey, but who fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not offer the sacrifice that Yahweh requires at the fixed time of year. That man must carry his sin.
-\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover in Yahweh’s honor, he must keep it and do all he commands, keeping the rules of the Passover, and obeying the laws for it. You must have the same law for the foreigner and for all who have been born in the land.”
+\v 14 If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover in Yahweh's honor, he must keep it and do all he commands, keeping the rules of the Passover, and obeying the laws for it. You must have the same law for the foreigner and for all who have been born in the land."
  
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 \v 17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the people of Israel would set out on their journey. Wherever the cloud stopped, the people would camp.
  
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-\v 18 At Yahweh’s command, the people of Israel would travel, and at his command, they would camp. While the cloud stopped over the tabernacle, they would stay in their camp.
-\v 19 When the cloud remained on the tabernacle for many days, then the people of Israel would obey Yahweh’s instructions and not travel.
+\v 18 At Yahweh's command, the people of Israel would travel, and at his command, they would camp. While the cloud stopped over the tabernacle, they would stay in their camp.
+\v 19 When the cloud remained on the tabernacle for many days, then the people of Israel would obey Yahweh's instructions and not travel.
  
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-\v 20 Sometimes the cloud remained a few days on the tabernacle. In that case, they would obey Yahweh’s command—they would make camp and then travel on again at his command.
+\v 20 Sometimes the cloud remained a few days on the tabernacle. In that case, they would obey Yahweh's command—they would make camp and then travel on again at his command.
 \v 21 Sometimes the cloud was present in camp from evening until morning. When the cloud lifted in the morning, they journeyed. If it continued for a day and for a night, only when the cloud lifted would they journey on.
  
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 \v 6 When you blow a loud signal the second time, the camps on the south side must begin their journey. They must blow a loud signal for their journeys.
 \v 7 When the community gathers together, blow the trumpets, but not loudly.
-\v 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets. This will always be a regulation for you throughout your people’s generations. 
+\v 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets. This will always be a regulation for you throughout your people's generations. 
  
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 \v 9 When you go to war in your land against an adversary who oppresses you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets. I, Yahweh, your God, will call you to mind and save you from your enemies.
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 \v 13 They made their first journey, following Yahweh's command given through Moses.
  
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-\v 14 The camp under the banner of Judah’s descendants went out first, moving out their individual armies. Nahshon son of Amminadab led Judah’s army.
-\v 15 Nethanel son of Zuar led the army of the tribe of Issachar’s descendants.
-\v 16 Eliab son of Helon led the army of the tribe of Zebulun’s descendants.
+\v 14 The camp under the banner of Judah's descendants went out first, moving out their individual armies. Nahshon son of Amminadab led Judah's army.
+\v 15 Nethanel son of Zuar led the army of the tribe of Issachar's descendants.
+\v 16 Eliab son of Helon led the army of the tribe of Zebulun's descendants.
  
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 \v 17 The descendants of Gershon and of Merari, who cared for the tabernacle, took down the tabernacle and then set out on their journey.
-\v 18 Next, the armies under the banner of Reuben’s camp set out on their journey. Elizur son of Shedeur led Reuben’s army.
-\v 19 Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai led the army of the tribe of Simeon’s descendants.
-\v 20 Eliasaph son of Deuel led the army of the tribe of Gad’s descendants.
+\v 18 Next, the armies under the banner of Reuben's camp set out on their journey. Elizur son of Shedeur led Reuben's army.
+\v 19 Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai led the army of the tribe of Simeon's descendants.
+\v 20 Eliasaph son of Deuel led the army of the tribe of Gad's descendants.
  
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-\v 21 The Kohathites set out. They carried the sanctuary’s holy equipment. Others would set up the tabernacle before the Kohathites arrived at the next camp.
-\v 22 The armies under the banner of Ephraim’s descendants set out next. Elishama son of Ammihud led Ephraim’s  army.
-\v 23 Gamaliel son of Pedahzur led the army of the tribe of Manasseh’s descendants. 
-\v 24 Abidan son of Gideoni led the army of the tribe of Benjamin’s descendants.
+\v 21 The Kohathites set out. They carried the sanctuary's holy equipment. Others would set up the tabernacle before the Kohathites arrived at the next camp.
+\v 22 The armies under the banner of Ephraim's descendants set out next. Elishama son of Ammihud led Ephraim's  army.
+\v 23 Gamaliel son of Pedahzur led the army of the tribe of Manasseh's descendants. 
+\v 24 Abidan son of Gideoni led the army of the tribe of Benjamin's descendants.
  
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-\v 25 The armies that camped under the banner of Dan’s descendants set out last. Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai led Dan’s army.
-\v 26  Pagiel son of Ochran led the army of the tribe of Asher’s descendants.
-\v 27 Ahira son of Enan led the army of the tribe of Naphtali’s descendants. 
+\v 25 The armies that camped under the banner of Dan's descendants set out last. Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai led Dan's army.
+\v 26  Pagiel son of Ochran led the army of the tribe of Asher's descendants.
+\v 27 Ahira son of Enan led the army of the tribe of Naphtali's descendants. 
 \v 28 This is the way that the armies of the people of Israel set out on their journey.
  
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-\v 29 Moses spoke to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite. Reuel was the father of Moses’ wife. Moses spoke to Hobab and said, "We are traveling to a place that Yahweh described. Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will do you good. Yahweh has promised to do good for Israel."
+\v 29 Moses spoke to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite. Reuel was the father of Moses' wife. Moses spoke to Hobab and said, "We are traveling to a place that Yahweh described. Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will do you good. Yahweh has promised to do good for Israel."
 \v 30 But Hobab said to Moses, "I will not go with you. I will go to my own land and my own people."
  
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 \v 33 They journeyed from the mountain of Yahweh for three days. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them for three days to find a place for them to rest.
-\v 34 Yahweh’s cloud was over them by daylight as they journeyed.
+\v 34 Yahweh's cloud was over them by daylight as they journeyed.
  
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 \v 35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, "Rise up, Yahweh. Scatter your enemies. Make those who hate you run from you."
-\v 36 Whenever the ark stopped, Moses would say, "Return, Yahweh, to Israel’s many tens of thousands."
+\v 36 Whenever the ark stopped, Moses would say, "Return, Yahweh, to Israel's many tens of thousands."
 
 
 

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 \v 1 Now the people complained about their troubles as Yahweh listened. Yahweh heard the people and became angry. Fire from Yahweh burned among them and consumed some of the camp on its edges.
 \v 2 Then people called out to Moses, so Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire stopped.
-\v 3 That place was named Taberah, because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.
+\v 3 That place was named Taberah, because Yahweh's fire burned among them.
  
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-\v 4 Some foreign people began to camp with Israel’s descendants. They wanted better food to eat. Then the people of Israel began to weep and say, "Who will give us meat to eat?
+\v 4 Some foreign people began to camp with Israel's descendants. They wanted better food to eat. Then the people of Israel began to weep and say, "Who will give us meat to eat?
 \v 5 We remember the fish that we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
 \v 6 Now we are weak. We see nothing to eat but manna."
  
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-\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Bring to me seventy of Israel’s elders. Be sure that they are elders and officers of the people. Bring them to the tent of meeting to stand there with you.
+\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Bring to me seventy of Israel's elders. Be sure that they are elders and officers of the people. Bring them to the tent of meeting to stand there with you.
 \v 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will bear the burden of the people with you. You will not have to bear it alone.
 
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-\v 18 Say to the people, ‘dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. You will indeed eat meat, for you have wept in Yahweh’s hearing. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." So Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it.
+\v 18 Say to the people, 'dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. You will indeed eat meat, for you have wept in Yahweh's hearing. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." So Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it.
 \v 19 You will not eat meat for only one day, two days, five days, ten days, or twenty days,
 \v 20 but you will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. It will disgust you because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you. You have wept before him. You said, "Why did we leave Egypt?"'"
  
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-\v 24 Moses went out and told the people Yahweh’s words. He gathered seventy of the people’s elders and positioned them around the tent.
+\v 24 Moses went out and told the people Yahweh's words. He gathered seventy of the people's elders and positioned them around the tent.
 \v 25 Yahweh came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Yahweh took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but only on that occasion and not again.
  
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 \v 27 A young man in the camp ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
  
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-\v 28 Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his chosen men, said to Moses, "My master Moses, stop them."
-\v 29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all of Yahweh’s people were prophets and that he would put his Spirit on them all!"
+\v 28 Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of his chosen men, said to Moses, "My master Moses, stop them."
+\v 29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all of Yahweh's people were prophets and that he would put his Spirit on them all!"
 \v 30 Then Moses and the elders of Israel went back to the camp.
  
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-\v 31 Then a wind came from Yahweh and brought quail from the sea. They fell near the camp, about a day’s journey on one side and a day’s journey on the other side. The quail surrounded the camp about two cubits above the ground.
+\v 31 Then a wind came from Yahweh and brought quail from the sea. They fell near the camp, about a day's journey on one side and a day's journey on the other side. The quail surrounded the camp about two cubits above the ground.
 \v 32 The people were busy gathering quail all that day, all the night, and all the next day. No one gathered less than ten homers of quail. They shared the quail all through the camp.
  
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-\v 9 Yahweh’s anger burned against them, and then he left them.
+\v 9 Yahweh's anger burned against them, and then he left them.
 \v 10 The cloud rose from over the tent, and Miriam was suddenly leprous—she was as white as snow. When Aaron turned toward Miriam, he saw that she had leprosy.
  
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-\v 12 Please do not let her be like a dead newborn whose flesh is half consumed when it emerges from its mother’s womb."
+\v 12 Please do not let her be like a dead newborn whose flesh is half consumed when it emerges from its mother's womb."
  
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 \v 2 "Send some men to examine the land of Canaan, which I have given to the people of Israel. Send a man from every tribe of their ancestors. Each man must be a leader among them."
  
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-\v 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, so that they might obey Yahweh’s command. All of them were leaders among the people of Israel.
+\v 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, so that they might obey Yahweh's command. All of them were leaders among the people of Israel.
 \v 4 These were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.
  
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 \v 10 From the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi.
-\v 11 From Joseph’s descendants, namely, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi.
+\v 11 From Joseph's descendants, namely, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi.
 \v 12 From the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli.
  
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 \v 17 Moses sent them to examine the land of Canaan. He said to them, "Approach from the Negev and go up into the hill country.
 \v 18 Examine the land to see what it is like. Observe the people who live there, whether they are strong or weak, and whether they are few or many.
 \v 19 See what the land is like where they live. Is it good or bad? What cities are there? Are they like camps, or are they fortified cities?
-\v 20 See what the land is like, whether it is good for growing crops or not, and whether there are trees there or not. Be brave and bring back samples of the land’s produce." Now the time was the season for the first ripe grapes.
+\v 20 See what the land is like, whether it is good for growing crops or not, and whether there are trees there or not. Be brave and bring back samples of the land's produce." Now the time was the season for the first ripe grapes.
  
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 \v 9 But do not rebel against Yahweh, and do not fear the people in the land. We will consume them as easily as food. Their protection will be removed from them, because Yahweh is with us. Do not fear them."
-\v 10 But all the community threatened to stone them to death. Then Yahweh’s glory appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
+\v 10 But all the community threatened to stone them to death. Then Yahweh's glory appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
  
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 \v 13 Moses said to Yahweh, "If you do this, then the Egyptians will hear about it, because you rescued this people from them by your power.
-\v 14 They will tell it to this land’s inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
+\v 14 They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
  
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 \v 15 Now if you kill this people as one person, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
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 \v 17 Now, I beg you, use your great power. For you have said,
-\v 18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will  by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors’ sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'
-\v 19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people’s sin because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now."
+\v 18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will  by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'
+\v 19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's sin because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now."
  
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 \v 27 "How long must I tolerate this evil community that criticizes me? I have heard the complaining of the people of Israel against me.
  
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-\v 28 Say to them, 'As I live,’ says Yahweh, ‘as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
+\v 28 Say to them, 'As I live,' says Yahweh, 'as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
 \v 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all you who complained against me, you who were counted in the census, the whole number of the people from twenty years old and upward.
 \v 30 You will certainly not go into the land that I promised to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  
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 \v 40 They rose up early in the morning and went to the top of the mountain and said, "Look, we are here, and we will go to the place that Yahweh has promised, for we have sinned."
  
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-\v 41 But Moses said, "Why are you now violating Yahweh’s command? You will not succeed.
+\v 41 But Moses said, "Why are you now violating Yahweh's command? You will not succeed.
 \v 42 Do not go, because Yahweh is not with you to prevent you from being defeated by your enemies.
 \v 43 The Amalekites and Canaanites are there, and you will die by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh. So  he will not be with you."
  

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 \v 13 All who are native-born Israelites must do these things in this way, when anyone brings an offering made by fire, to produce an aroma that is pleasing to Yahweh.
  
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-\v 14 If a foreigner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people’s generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
-\v 15 There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people’s generations. As you are, so also must be the traveler staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
+\v 14 If a foreigner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people's generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
+\v 15 There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people's generations. As you are, so also must be the traveler staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
 \v 16 The same law and decree must apply to you and to the foreigner who is staying with you.' "
  
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 \v 20 From the first of your dough you must offer a loaf to raise it up as a raised offering from the threshing floor. You must raise it up in this way.
-\v 21 You must give to me a raised offering throughout your people’s generations from the first of your dough.
+\v 21 You must give to me a raised offering throughout your people's generations from the first of your dough.
  
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 \v 22 You will sometimes sin without intending to do so, when you do not obey all these commands that I have spoken to Moses—
-\v 23 everything that I have commanded you through Moses from the day that I began to give you commands and onward throughout your people’s generations.
-\v 24 In the case of unintentional sin without the community’s knowledge, then all the community must offer one young bull as a burnt offering to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. Along with this must be made a grain offering and drink offering, as commanded by the decree, and one male goat as a sin offering.
+\v 23 everything that I have commanded you through Moses from the day that I began to give you commands and onward throughout your people's generations.
+\v 24 In the case of unintentional sin without the community's knowledge, then all the community must offer one young bull as a burnt offering to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. Along with this must be made a grain offering and drink offering, as commanded by the decree, and one male goat as a sin offering.
  
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 \v 25 The priest must make atonement for all the community of the people of Israel. They will be forgiven because the sin was an error. They have brought their sacrifice, an offering made by fire to me. They have brought their sin offering before me for their error.
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 \v 37 Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
-\v 38 "Speak to the descendants of Israel and command them to make for themselves tassels to hang from the borders of their garments, to hang them from each border by a blue cord. They must do this throughout their people’s generations.
+\v 38 "Speak to the descendants of Israel and command them to make for themselves tassels to hang from the borders of their garments, to hang them from each border by a blue cord. They must do this throughout their people's generations.
 \v 39 It will be a special reminder to you, when you may look at it, of all my commandments, to carry them out so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to act like spiritual prostitutes.
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 \v 40 Do this so that you may call to mind and obey all my commandments, and so that you may be holy, reserved for me, your God.