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# overly busy
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"very busy" or "too busy"
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# do you not care ... alone?
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Martha is complaining that the Lord is allowing Mary to sit listening to him when there is so much work to do. She respects the Lord, so she uses a rhetorical question to make her complaint more polite. AT: "it seems like you do not care ... alone." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Martha, Martha
Jesus repeats Martha's name for emphasis. AT: "Dear Martha" or "You, Martha"
# only one thing is necessary
Jesus is contrasting what Mary is doing with what Martha is doing. It may be helpful to make this explicit. AT: "the only thing that is really necessary is to listen to my teaching" or "listening to my teaching is more necessary than preparing a meal" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
# which will not be taken away from her
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Possible meanings are 1) "I will not take this opportunity away from her" or 2) "she will not lose what she has gained as she was listening to me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/serve]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/lord]]