en_tn_condensed/isa/38/21.md

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Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main storyline. This gives background information about Isaiah and Hezekiah. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background)

Let them

"Let Hezekiah's servants"

take a lump of figs

"make medicine from pressed figs"

boil

a painful area on the skin that is infected