richmahn_en_tn/1ki/12/08.md

# Lighten the yoke that your father put on us

To "lighten the yoke" is a metaphor to represent lifting of the burden. AT: "Do not treat us as cruelly as your father did" or "Do not force us to work as hard as your father did" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rehoboam]]
initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# Lighten the yoke that your father put on us`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
added tw to notes 2017-06-24 00:15:21 +00:00			`To "lighten the yoke" is a metaphor to represent lifting of the burden. AT: "Do not treat us as cruelly as your father did" or "Do not force us to work as hard as your father did" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])`

			`# translationWords`

			`* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rehoboam]]`