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 # whom I beheaded
 
-Here Herod uses the word "I" to refer to himself. The word "I" is a metonym for Herod's soldiers. Alternate translation: "whom I commanded my soldiers to behead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
+Herod said "I beheaded" because he had commanded his soldier to behead John. Alternate translation: "whom I commanded my soldier to behead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
 
 # has been raised