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# Why should I pardon these people?
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Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he has no reason to pardon these people. Alternate translation: "Because of the things that they do, I cannot pardon these people." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# these people
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the people of Jerusalem
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# Your sons
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Yahweh is speaking to Jerusalem as though she were a woman who had children. Jerusalem's "sons" represent the people of Jerusalem. Alternate translation: "The people of Jerusalem" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])
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# I fed them fully
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Providing all they needed is spoken of as feeding them. Alternate translation: "I gave them everything they needed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# they committed adultery and walked in great numbers to the houses of prostitutes
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This may be a metaphor for being unfaithful to God and worshiping idols, but idol worship also included prostitution. Alternate translation: "they were unfaithful to me and went in large numbers to the houses of prostitutes" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# walked in great numbers to the houses of prostitutes
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"went in large groups to the houses of prostitutes" or "large groups of them went to the houses of prostitutes"
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