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a fixed time
This is the time God decided he would stop the plage.
seventy thousand
"70,000" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)
from Dan to Beersheba
The writer mentions the city of Dan in the north and the city of Beersheba in the south to mean the entire nation of Israel. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism)
the angel reached out with his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it
AT: "the angel started destroying the people in Jerusalem" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
Yahweh changed his mind about the harm
“Yahweh stopped the evil that he was allowing the angel to do,” (See rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
Now draw back your hand
AT: "Do not harm them any longer"
Araunah
This is the name of a man. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)
the threshing floor
A threshing floor was a hard flat surface where people separated the grain from the stock that it grew on; either by dragging a heave object such as a large board or rock over it, by hitting it with a stick or getting cattle to walk on it.