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# General Information:
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Even though the men knew that Jonah was guilty of sin against Yahweh, they thought they would be guilty of murder if they threw him off the boat.
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# Therefore
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"Because of this" or "Because the sea became more violent"
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# they cried out to Yahweh
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"the men prayed to Yahweh"
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# do not let us perish on account of this man's life
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"Please do not kill us because we caused this man to die" or "We are going to cause this man to die. But please do not kill us"
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# do not put innocent blood on us
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Blood is a metonym for the death of a person, and to put or lay blood on people is to make them responsible for that person's death. Alternate translation: "do not make us responsible for the death of an innocent man" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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