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# How can a man be born when he is old?
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Nicodemus uses this question to emphasize that this cannot happen. Alternate translation: "A man certainly cannot be born again when he is old!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?
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Nicodemus also uses this question to emphasize his belief that a second birth is impossible. "Certainly, he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb! (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# a second time
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"again" or "twice"
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# womb
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the part of a woman's body where a baby grows
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