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for Israel's sake

The word "Israel" represents the Israelite people. Alternate translation: "in order to help the Israelite people" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)

all the hardships that had come to them

Moses writes of hardships happening to them as if hardships had come to them. Alternate translation: "all the hardships that had happened to them" or "all the hardships they had experienced" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)