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# We also promised ... we would not buy ... we will let ... we will cancel
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The pronoun "we" here includes Nehemiah and the Jewish people, but not the reader of this book. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-exclusive]])
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# seventh year
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"year 7" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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# we will let our fields rest
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This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "we will not plow our fields" or "we will not grow anything in our fields" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# we will cancel all debts
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This means that they will not require that people pay them what they owe. Alternate translation: "we will cancel all debts that people owe us" or "we will tell people that they no longer have to pay us back"
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