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[Option] base-element [Default] verse-unit [Description] 
Set to paragraph to transform the output from verse-unit-based markup ( ... ) to paragraph-based markup ( ... ). In doing so, you lose a little bit of information--you can no longer tell whether the end of a passage indicates the true end of a paragraph or block indent in the text, or whether it was put there to allow the proper closing of tags. That is to say, there is no longer .
ESV Bible Web Service API (Version 2)
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