diff --git a/gen/32/12.md b/gen/32/12.md index b347893ba6..5d28339157 100644 --- a/gen/32/12.md +++ b/gen/32/12.md @@ -1,16 +1,12 @@ # But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper. I will make your descendants ... number.' -This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated an an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "But you said that you would certainly prosper me, and that you would make my descendants ... number" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]]) - -# make you prosper - -"do good to you" or "treat you well" + "But you said that you would certainly prosper me, and that you would make my descendants ... number" # I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea -This speaks about the very large number of Jacob's descendants as if their number will be like the grains of sand on the seashore. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]]) +This speaks about the very large number of Jacob's descendants as if their number will be like the grains of sand on the seashore. # which cannot be numbered for their number -This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "which no one can count because of their number" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) +This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "which no one can count because of their number"