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29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if they were on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were drowned.
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By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned.
30 By faith Jericho's walls fell after the people marched around them for seven days.
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By faith the walls of Jericho fell after they had been encircled for seven days.
31 By faith Rahab the prostitute wasn't killed with the disobedient because she welcomed the spies in peace.
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By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.
32 What more can I say? I would run out of time if I told you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets.
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And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—
33 Through faith they conquered kingdoms, brought about justice, realized promises, shut the mouths of lions,
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who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,
34 put out raging fires, escaped from the edge of the sword, found strength in weakness, were mighty in war, and routed foreign armies.
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quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured and refused to be released so they could gain a better resurrection.
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Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.
36 But others experienced public shame by being taunted and whipped; they were even put in chains and in prison.
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Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned to death, they were cut in two, and they died by being murdered with swords. They went around wearing the skins of sheep and goats, needy, oppressed, and mistreated.
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They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—
38 The world didn't deserve them. They wandered around in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.
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of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 All these people didn't receive what was promised, though they were given approval for their faith.
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Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised,
40 God provided something better for us so they wouldn't be made perfect without us.
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since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.
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