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# Connecting Statement:
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In these verses, the Levites continue to praise Yahweh in the presence of the people of Israel.
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# You made their children
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Yahweh made the descendants of the Israelites at the time of Moses
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# gave them into their hands
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The Canaanites are spoken of as if they were small objects that a person could place in the hand of another person. To give something into a person's hand is to give that person complete control over that thing. AT: "enabled the Israelites to have complete control over them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])