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# Behold
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"Look" or "Listen" or "Pay attention to what I am about to tell you"
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# I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem
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"I will stop the supply of food to Jerusalem"
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# the staff of bread
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The supply is called a staff because some people need a staff to walk and do their work, and people need bread to live. Bread represents all kinds of food. Alternate translation: "the supply of food" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# they will eat bread while rationing it in anxiety
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You may need to make explicit why they will ration the bread. "they will carefully divide their bread because they fear that there will not be enough" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# rationing
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giving small amounts of something of which there is not enough to many people
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# rationing it in trembling
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The word "shaking" is a metaphor for being afraid and "trembling" represents fear. Alternate translation: "rationing it while shaking" or "rationing it in fear" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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