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17 lines
657 B
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# Behold!
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"Pay attention!"
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# Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land
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Being strong like these things represents being confident and unchanging in saying what God had told him to say. Alternate translation: "I have made you strong against the whole land like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# iron ... bronze
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These were the strongest materials known at that time. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the whole land
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This represents all the people of the land. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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