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# General Information:
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel about what happened in the past.
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# I broke them before your eyes
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Here "your eyes" is a synecdoche for the people of Israel. AT: "I broke them right in front of you" or "I broke them where you could see them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# lay facedown
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"lay with my face on the ground." This is a way of showing that Yahweh was great and Moses was not.
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# forty days and forty nights
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"40 days and 40 nights" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])