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# General Information:
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you]])
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# in the third year
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This "third" is the ordinal number for three. Every three years the people of Israel gave a tenth of the harvest to the poor. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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# fatherless
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These are children whose parents have both died and do not have relatives to care for them.
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# widow
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This means a woman whose husband has died and has no children to care for her now that she is old.
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# eat within your city gates and be filled
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Here "gates" means towns or cities. Alternate translation: "so that those within your towns may have enough food to eat" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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