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# Now the days
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The word "now" marks a change from the story to background information about how long the people of Israel traveled and about God's anger towards that generation. If your language has a way of showing that what follows is background information, you should use it here. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])
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# thirty-eight years
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"38 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# were gone from the people
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This is a polite way of saying "had died." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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