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# General Information:
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In verses 1-18, Nebuchadnezzar describes in the first person his vision from God. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
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# sights
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things that you see
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# its height was very great
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"it was very tall"
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# Its top reached to the heavens ... it could be seen to the ends of the whole earth
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This is symbolic language that exaggerates how tall and how well-known the tree was. AT: "It seemed that its top reached up to the sky and that everyone in the world could see it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-symlanguage]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]])
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# its fruit was abundant
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"there was a lot of fruit on the tree"
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# was food for all
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"was food for all people and animals"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/mind]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/earth]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/creature]] |