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# go down
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It was common to use the word "down" when speaking of traveling from Canaan to Egypt.
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# Then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother ... is with us.'
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This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "Then we said to him that we cannot go down to Egypt. We told him that if our youngest brother is with us ... is with us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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# to see the man's face
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Here "face" stands for the whole person. Alternate translation: "to see the man" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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