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- after a day's journey - "after a day's walk." A day's journey is the distance that people would normally travel in one day. This can be translated "after Jonah walked for one day."
- after a day’s journey he called out - Possible meanings are 1) "after Jonah walked a day's journey he called out" or 2) "while Jonah walked on the first day, he called out."
- he called out and said - "he proclaimed" or "he shouted"
- forty days - "40 days" (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:translate_numbers)
- from the greatest of them down to the least of them - "So everyone, including all the important people and all the unimportant people" (UDB)
- They all put on sackcloth - The reason that they put on sackcloth can be made explicit: "They also put on coarse cloth, to show that they were sorry for having sinned." (UDB) (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_explicit)