## sell your people for nothing ## When Yahweh allows his people to be taken into slavery they compare it to being sold for no money. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) ## You make us a rebuke ... a scoffing and a derision ... ## (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]]) - These two phrases are parallel emphasizing how they are mocked by the people they live among. ## a scoffing and a derision ## These two words have the same meaning. They are both nouns meaning something that is mocked or ridiculed. AT: "a mockery and an object of ridicule" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]]) ## an insult among ... a shaking of the head ... ## These phrases are parallel emphasizing how wide-spread their ridicule is among the nations. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])