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# Hear, our God, ... for they have provoked the builders to anger. So
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Here Nehemiah is praying to God. This can be stated clearly and written with quotation marks. AT: "Then I prayed, 'Hear, our God, ... for they have provoked the builders to anger.' So" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# Do not cover over
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This speaks of a forgiving a person's sins as if they were a object that could be physically hidden. AT: "Do not forgive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# do not erase their sin from before you
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This speaks of forgetting a person's sins as if they were something written that could be erased. AT: "do not forget their sins
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# they have provoked the builders to anger
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"they have angered the builders"
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