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# each male child who opens the womb, the firstborn
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These two phrases mean basically the same thing and are combined for emphasize the firstborn sons. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# male child who opens the womb
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This is an idiom. "To open the womb" means to give birth for the first time. Here this refers to the first male child to which a mother gives birth. AT: "child who is the firstborn son of his mother" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# I took the lives
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This is a polite way of referring to when a person kills someone. AT: "I killed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# I set them apart
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Here "them" refers to "the firstborn from among the people of Israel." |