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# Please say this, so that all the leaders in Shechem may hear, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or that just one rule over you?'
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This has a quotation within a quotation. A direct quotation can be stated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "Please ask the leaders of Shechem if they would rather have all seventy sons of Jerub-Baal rule over them, or if they would rather have just one of his sons rule over them." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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# seventy
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"70" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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# I am your bone and your flesh
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Here "your bone and your flesh" represents being someone's relative. Alternate translation: "I am a member of your family" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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