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# They had tails

The word "They" refers to the locusts.

# with stingers like scorpions

A scorpion is a small insect with a poisonous stinger at the end of its long tail. Its sting can cause severe pain or even death. See how you translated a similar phrase in [Revelation 9:3](../09/03.md). Alternate translation: "with stingers like scorpion stingers" or "with stingers that could cause terrible pain as scorpion stingers can" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])

# in their tails they had power to harm people for five months

Possible meanings are 1) they had power for five months to harm people or 2) they could sting people and the people would be in pain for five months.
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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`The word "They" refers to the locusts.`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
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Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`A scorpion is a small insect with a poisonous stinger at the end of its long tail. Its sting can cause severe pain or even death. See how you translated a similar phrase in [Revelation 9:3](../09/03.md). Alternate translation: "with stingers like scorpion stingers" or "with stingers that could cause terrible pain as scorpion stingers can" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])`
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			`Possible meanings are 1) they had power for five months to harm people or 2) they could sting people and the people would be in pain for five months.`