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# Connecting Statement:
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Micah begins to compare the leaders of Israel to butchers.
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# hate good and love evil
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These nominal adjectives can be translated as adjectives. Alternate translation: "hate everything that is good and love everything that is evil" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# you who tear off their skin, their flesh from their bones
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A butcher cutting up animals into meat is a metaphor for the leaders being cruel to the poor. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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