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# your ... you
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In 27:39-40 these pronouns are singular and refer to Esau, but what Isaac says also applies to Esau's descendants (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# By your sword you will live
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Here "sword" stands for violence. Alternate translation: "You will rob and kill people in order to get what you need to live" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# you will break his yoke off of your neck
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This speaks about someone having a master as if the master's control over the person were a yoke that the person had to carry. Alternate translation: "you will free yourself from his control" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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