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# they set aside my command
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Not obeying the king's command is spoken of as if they had physically moved it away from them. Alternate translation: "they ignored my command" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# they gave up their bodies
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This phrase refers to the three men's willingness to die for what they believed. Alternate translation: "they were willing to die" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# prostrate themselves to
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People would do this to worship their gods. Alternate translation: "stretch themselves out on the ground face down in honor of" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-symaction]])
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# any god except their God
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"any other god except their God"
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