# How can I go?

Samuel uses a question to emphasize that he is worried about going to Bethlehem. AT: "I cannot go!" or "I am afraid to go." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# with you and say

You can state the understood information. AT: "with you to Bethlehem and say to the people there" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])

# say, 'I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.'

This has a quotation within a quotation. The direct quotation can be stated as an indirect quotation. AT: "say to the people there that you have come to sacrifice to Yahweh." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/samuel]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/saul]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/heifer]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/sacrifice]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/call]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/jesse]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/anoint]]