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# took bread
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Possible meanings are 1) this refers to food in general or 2) this refers to bread specifically. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# a skin of water
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"a bag of water." The water container was made out of animal skin.
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# When the water in the waterskin was gone
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"When the water bag was empty" or "When they had drank all of the water"
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# about the distance of a bowshot away
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This refers to the distance that a person could shoot an arrow with a bow. This is about 100 meters.
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# Let me not look upon the death of the child
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The abstract noun "death" can be stated as "die." AT: "I do not want to watch the boy die" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# she lifted up her voice and wept
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Here "voice" stands for the sound of her crying. To "life up her voice" means to cry loudly. AT: "she cried out loudly and wept" or "she wept loudly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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