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General Information:

Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel as if they were one man, so all instances of "you" are singular. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you)

This son of ours

"Our son"

he will not obey our voice

Here "voice" is a metonym for what a person says or a synecdoche for the whole person. Alternate translation: "he will not do what we tell him to do" or "he will not obey us" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche)

a glutton

a person who eats and drinks too much

a drunkard

a person who drinks too much alcohol and gets drunk often