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# like the chaff of the threshing floors in the summer
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This phrase is comparing the pieces of the statue to small and light things which could be blown away by the wind. Alternate translation: "like dry pieces of grass blowing away in the wind" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# there was no trace of them left
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This can be stated in positive form. Alternate translation: "they were completely gone" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-litotes]])
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# filled the whole earth
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"spread over the whole earth"
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