Prophetic Christmas Course - phrasing

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This is the first time I’ve tried phrasing a passage. The phrases have me a little confused. Should I pull the genitive, relative, and subordinate phrases out of the verse (so that I can see the simple idea) or just put them in lines of their own? Below, I pulled the phrases out of the verse, but I’m not sure if this just makes it confusing to look at.

And … there were shepherds
^ in the same region
out in the field,
keeping watch … by night.
^ over their flock

@Paige-Luurtsema You did well to keep “there were shepherds” together, with its subject and verb.

“Over the flock” doesn’t need to be extracted, since “by night” is a prepositional phrase and should be divided anyway.

There weren’t any genitive phrases in this verse, actually.