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Currently at least six articles about single bible chapters contain a version of the entire text of the chapter within it, rather than only links. In fact, they do this twice in each article. Regardless of the existence of the six articles, while they exist, is the presence of the entire text of the
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be in these specific articles, one or two editors have continuously reverted the source text back into the article whenever anyone tries to remove it, and so this discussion is ultimately to impose some form of consensus on the issue one way or the other.
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This discussion is specifically to address the presence of two entire translations of whole chapters at the following articles:
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After debate, general consensus seemed to be that, as per
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The conclusions of the discussion are summarised below.
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