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# what Paul had done
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This refers to Paul's healing the crippled man.
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# they raised their voice
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To raise the voice is to speak loudly. AT: "they spoke loudly" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
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# The gods have come down to us
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A large number of people believed Paul and Barnabas were their pagan gods who had come down from heaven. AT: "The gods have come down from heaven to us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# in the dialect of Lycaonia
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"in their own Lycaonian language." The people of Lystra spoke Lycaonian and also Greek.
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# in the form of men
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These people believed that the gods needed to change their appearance in order to look like men.
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