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# God saw their deeds
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"God saw what they did" or "God understood that they had stopped doing evil actions"
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# they turned from their evil ways
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The author speaks of the people stop sinning as if they turned their back to an object. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# God changed his mind about the punishment that he had said he would do to them
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Here God deciding not to do the punishment he had planned is spoken of is if he changed his mind. Alternate translation: "God changed his thinking about the punishment that he had said he would do to them" or "God decided not to punish them as he had said he would" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# he did not do it
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What God was to do can be made explicit. Alternate translation: "he did not punish them" or "he did not destroy them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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