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# if I bring a sword against that land
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The word "sword" is a metonym for soldiers who kill people using swords. Alternate translation:
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# Sword, go through the land
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Here the word "sword" represents the soldiers of an enemy army who attack with swords. Alternate translation: "Army, go through the land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# cut off both man and beast from it
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Yahweh speaks of killing people and animals as if it were cutting them off, like a person would cut a branch from a tree. Alternate translation: "kill both man and beast in the land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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