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# the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
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This idiom is used to introduce a special message from God. AT: "Yahweh of hosts gave me a message. He said," or "Yahweh of hosts spoke this message to me:" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# in the fifth and in the seventh month
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"in months 5 and 7" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal]])
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# in the fifth
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The word "month" can be supplied in translation. AT: "in the fifth month" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
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# in the seventh month
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The assumed knowledge is that the Jews mourned during a part of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar because in this month the remaining Jews in Jerusalem fled to Egypt after the murder of Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon appointed as governor over Judah. The seventh month is during the last part of September and the first part of October on Western calendars. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-hebrewmonths]])
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# for these seventy years
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The assumed knowledge is that the people of Israel had been slaves in Babylon for 70 years. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# were you truly fasting for me?
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This question is asked to make the people think about what their real reason for fasting had been. It can be translated as a statement. AT: "you were not really fasting for me." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# When you ate and drank
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Possible meanings are 1) when they feasted and drank when celebrating religious festivals or 2) when they ate and drank whenever they were not fasting.
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# did you not eat and drink for yourselves?
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This question is used to make the people think about whether they were honoring Yahweh when they ate and drank. This can be translated as a statement. AT: "it was for yourselves that you ate and drank." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Were these not the same words ... to the west?
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Yahweh uses a question to scold the people. This question can be translated as a statement. AT: "These are the same words ... to the west." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# by the mouth of the former prophets
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Here "mouth" is a metonym for the words spoken by the mouth. AT: "by the words of the former prophets" or "through the former prophets" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# inhabited
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"lived in"
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# foothills
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hills at the base of a mountain or mountain range
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/wordofgod]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahwehofhosts]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/priest]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/fast]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/mourn]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/biblicaltimeyear]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/word]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/proclaim]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/prophet]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jerusalem]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/prosper]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/negev]] |