2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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# your God has blessed you ... your hand ... your walking ... your God ... with you, and you have lacked
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2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so all instances of "you" and "your" are singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you]])
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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# you in all the work of your hand
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2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00
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The "work of your hand" refers to all the work they had done. Alternate translation: "all of your work" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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# he has known your walking
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2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00
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Here what happened to the people while they were walking is spoken of as their "walking." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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# forty years
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2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00
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"40 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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# you have lacked nothing
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2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00
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This is a litotes for "you have had everything you needed." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-litotes]])
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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