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# to go down to [Egypt](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/egypt)
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It was common to use the phrase "go down" when speaking of traveling from Canaan to [Egypt](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/egypt).
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# I will make you a great nation
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The "you" is singular and refers to [Jacob](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob). Here [Jacob](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob) refers to his descendants that will become a large nation. AT: "I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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