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31 lines
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## a fixed time ##
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This is the time God decided he would stop the plage.
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## seventy thousand ##
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"70,000" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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## from Dan to Beersheba ##
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The writer mentions the city of Dan in the north and the city of Beersheba in the south to mean the entire nation of Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])
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## the angel reached out with his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it ##
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AT: "the angel started destroying the people in Jerusalem" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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## Yahweh changed his mind about the harm ##
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“Yahweh stopped the evil that he was allowing the angel to do,” (See [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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## Now draw back your hand ##
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AT: "Do not harm them any longer"
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## Araunah ##
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This is the name of a man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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## the threshing floor ##
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A threshing floor was a hard flat surface where people separated the grain from the stock that it grew on; either by dragging a heave object such as a large board or rock over it, by hitting it with a stick or getting cattle to walk on it.
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