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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-In these verses, the Levites continue to praise Yahweh in the presence of the people of Israel.
-
 # Your good Spirit ... your manna ... water
 
-The writer changes the usual word order to emphasize the good things Yahweh gave his people. Your language may have another way of emphasizing these items.
+The writer changes the usual word order to emphasize the good things Yahweh gave his people.
 
 # instruct
 
@@ -12,9 +8,8 @@ teach
 
 # your manna you did not withhold from their mouths
 
-This litotes can be expressed positively. Alternate translation: "you generously gave them manna" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-litotes]])
+"you generously gave them manna"
 
 # from their mouths
 
-The mouth is a synecdoche for the whole person. Alternate translation: "from them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
-
+"from them"
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