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# Let it happen like this
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"Let it happen this way" or "Make this happen"
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# When I say to a young woman, 'Please lower your pitcher so that I may drink,'
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This is a quotation within a quotation. This can be expressed with an indirect quote. Alternate translation: "When I ask a young woman to let me have a drink of water from her jar" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
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# Please lower your pitcher
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The women carried the pitchers on their shoulder. She would have to lower it to give the man a drink.
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# pitcher
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a medium-size jar made of clay used for holding and pouring liquids
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# that you have shown covenant faithfulness to my master
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The abstract noun "faithfulness" can be stated as "been faithful." Alternate translation: "that you have been faithful to the covenant you have with my master Abraham" or "you have been faithful to my master Abraham" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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