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# Take also your brother
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"Take also Benjamin"
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# go again
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"return"
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# May God Almighty give you mercy before the man
The abstract noun "mercy" can be stated as the adjective "kind." AT: "May God Almighty cause the man to be kind to you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
# your other brother
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"Simeon"
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# If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved
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"If I lose my children, then I lose my children." This means that Jacob knows he must accept whatever happens to his sons.
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# in their hand they took
Here "hand" refers to the entire person. AT: "they took" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
# went down to Egypt
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It was common to use the phrase "went down" when speaking of traveling from Canaan to Egypt.