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# Just like this
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"Just as Hananiah has taken the yoke off Jeremiah's neck"
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# I will break from off the neck of every nation the yoke imposed by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
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Hananaiah speaks of the people being in slavery as if they were oxen on which the Babylonians had put yokes to make them do heavy work. Alternate translation: "I will make it so all nations are no longer slaves of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon" or "I will set every nation free from slavery to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# every nation
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The word "nation" is a metonym for the people of that nation. Alternate translation: "the people of every nation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# the yoke imposed by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
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This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "the yoke that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has imposed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# imposed
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put on people
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