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# Is Israel a slave? Was he born in his master's home? So why has he become plunder?
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Though Yahweh was speaking to the people of Israel, he used the third person as though he were talking to someone else about Israel. AT: "Israel, are you a slave? Were you born at home? So why have you become plunder?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
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# Is Israel a slave? Was he born in his master's home?
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Yahweh uses these questions to tell why Israel should not have become plunder. AT: "Israel is not a slave. Israel was not born at home." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Was he born in his master's home
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Here "born in his master's home" is metonym for being born into slavery. AT: "Was he born a slave" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# So why has he become plunder?
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Yahweh uses this question to indicate that Israel should not have become plunder. AT: "So he should not have become plunder." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# So why has he become plunder
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Here "become plunder" represents being attacked and taken as captives to another country. AT: "So why has Israel been taken away as captives" or "So why have Israel's enemies taken Israel away as captives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Young lions roared against him. They made a lot of noise
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God speaks of Israel's enemies attacking Israel as if the enemies were lions roaring and attacking Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# made his land a horror
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This represents destroying the land in such a way that people will feel horror when they see it. AT: "destroyed Israel's land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# Young lions roared
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A roar is a loud sound that a wild animal makes when it attacks.
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# His cities are destroyed without any inhabitants
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "They have destroyed Israel's cities and now no one lives in them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# inhabitants
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people who live in a certain place
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# Memphis and Tahpanhes
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These are the names of two cities in Egypt. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# will shave your skull
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The Egyptians shaved the head of their slaves to mark them as slaves.
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# will shave your skull
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Some versions interpret the Hebrew text as "have cracked your skull."
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# Did you not do this to yourselves when you abandoned Yahweh your God, while he was leading you along the way?
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Yahweh uses this question to remind Israel that it is their own fault that their enemies attacked them. AT: "You caused this yourselves by abandoning Yahweh your God while he was leading you along the way." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) |