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# I will make men more rare than fine gold

Why there will be so few people can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "I will cause so many people to die that living people will be more rare than fine gold" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])

# men more rare than fine gold ... mankind harder to find than the pure gold of Ophir

These two phrases mean basically the same thing. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])

# pure gold of Ophir

Ophir was the name of a place where there was pure gold. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00			`# I will make men more rare than fine gold`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`Why there will be so few people can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "I will cause so many people to die that living people will be more rare than fine gold" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])`
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
			`# men more rare than fine gold ... mankind harder to find than the pure gold of Ophir`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`These two phrases mean basically the same thing. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])`
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
			`# pure gold of Ophir`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`Ophir was the name of a place where there was pure gold. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])`
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00