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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues describing a hypothetical situation to the people of Israel.
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# Your descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and the children from your womb as numerous as the grains of sand
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These both mean that the people would have had more descendants than they could count. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# the children from your womb
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Yahweh speaks of the descendants of the people of Israel as if they were children to which the nation gives birth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# their name would not have been cut off nor blotted out
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The people of Israel being destroyed is spoken of as if their name had been cut off, as one would cut a piece of cloth or cut a branch from a tree, or blotted out. This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "I would not have cut off nor blotted out their name" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# their name
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Here the word "name" refers to the descendants who would carry on the name of Israel. Alternate translation: "they" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# cut off nor blotted out
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These two expressions in this context refer to destroying the people. Alternate translation: "destroyed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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