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# you defiled my land, you made my inheritance an abomination!
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These two phrases mean the same thing. Alternate translation: "you sinned and made the land I gave you disgusting to me!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# you defiled my land
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Here "defiled" represents making the land unacceptable to God. They did this by sinning against him there when they worshiped idols. Alternate translation: "by sinning, you made my land no good" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# you made my inheritance an abomination
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"you made my inheritance disgusting by your sin" or "by sinning, you made my inheritance repulsive"
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# my inheritance
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Possible meanings are 1) God is speaking of his land as if he had inherited it. Alternate translation: "my land" or 2) God is speaking of the land he gave to Israel as if he had given it to them as an inheritance. Alternate translation: "the land I gave you" or "the land I gave you as an inheritance" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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