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# command that the tomb be made secure
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "command your soldiers to guard the tomb" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# the third day
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"day number three." This refers to the day after two nights have passed. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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# his disciples may come and steal him
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"his disciples may come and steal his body"
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# his disciples may ... say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and
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This has a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "his disciples may ... tell the people that he has risen from the dead, and" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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# from the dead
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From among all those who have died. The expression "the dead" describes all dead people together in the underworld. To rise from among them speaks of becoming alive again.
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# and the last deception will be worse than the first
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The understood information can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "and if they deceive people by saying that, it will be worse than the way he deceived people before when he said that he was the Christ" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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