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# General Information:
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This quotation comes from another Psalm.
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# Connecting Statement:
The author continues explaining that Jesus is superior to the angels.
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# In the beginning
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"Before anything existed"
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# you laid the earth's foundation
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The author speaks of God creating the earth as if he built a building on a foundation. Alternate translation: "you created the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# The heavens are the work of your hands
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Here "hands" refer to God's power and action. Alternate translation: "You made the heavens" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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