See in Reader
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30 lines
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# Behold
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"Look" or "Listen" or "Pay attention to what I am about to tell you"
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# I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem
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"I will stop the supply of food to Jerusalem"
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# the staff of bread
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The supply is called a staff because some people need a staff to walk and do their work, and people need bread to live. Bread represents all kinds of food. Alternate translation: "the supply of food" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# they will eat bread while rationing it in anxiety
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You may need to make explicit why they will ration the bread. "they will carefully divide their bread because they fear that there will not be enough" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# while rationing it in anxiety
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The abstract noun "anxiety" can be expressed with the adjective "anxious" or the adverb "anxiously". Alternate translation: "while being anxious and rationing it" or "while rationing it anxiously" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# rationing
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giving small amounts of something of which there is not enough to many people
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# while rationing it in horror
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The abstract noun "horror" can be expressed with the adjective "afraid" or the adverb "fearfully". Alternate translation: "while being afraid and rationing it" or "while rationing it fearfully" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
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