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# What do you mean, you who use this proverb ... 'Fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are made blunt'?
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Yahweh asks this rhetorical question to remind Ezekiel something he already knows. The question is a rebuke for the people who use the proverb. Alternate translation: "The people in the land of Israel have this proverb ... 'Fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are made blunt'." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# What do you mean, you who use this proverb
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Here the word "you" is plural and refers to the people of Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
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# land of Israel
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This refers to the people of Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# Fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are made blunt
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This proverbs means that children experience the consequences of their parents' actions. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-proverbs]])
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# the children's teeth are made blunt
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The idiom "teeth are made blunt" refers to the sour taste in one's mouth that is a result of eating unripe or sour fruit. Alternate translation: "the children get a sour taste in their mouths" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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