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# Now what was prepared each day was
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Each day I told my servants to prepare" or "Each day I told my servants to serve us the meat from" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# six choice ... ten days
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"6 choice ... 10 days" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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# wine in abundance
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"enough wine for everyone"
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# yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor
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"yet I never asked for the governor's food allowance"
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# the labor was heavy on this people
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Possible meanings are 1) the work that the people were doing was too hard or 2) the word "labor" is a metonym for the demand that the officials were making of the people. Alternate translation: "the officials were forcing the people to do too much work" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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