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-# Herod secretly called the learned men
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-This means that Herod talked to the learned men without other people knowing.
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 # men to ask them exactly what time the star had appeared.
 
-This can be translated as a direct quotation. Alternate translation: "men, and he asked them, 'When exactly did this star appear?'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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-# what time the star had appeared
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-It is implied that the learned men told him when the star appeared. Alternate translation: "what time the star had appeared. The learned men told Herod when the star first appeared" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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+"called the men, and he asked them, 'When exactly did this star appear?'" 
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