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# A voice is heard in Ramah
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This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "I hear a voice in Ramah" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# It is Rachel weeping for her children
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Rachel was the wife of Jacob/Israel and was the mother of the tribes of Joseph and Benjamin. Her name is a metonym for the women of Israel who are crying because the Babylonians have killed their children or taken them away. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# She refuses to be comforted over them, for they live no longer
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This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "She will not let anyone comfort her, for her children are dead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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