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925 B
Markdown
31 lines
925 B
Markdown
## Yahweh said ##
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"Yahweh said to Jonah"
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## perished ##
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"died"
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## should I not have compassion for Nineveh, that great city ##
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God used this question to emphasize his claim that he should have compassion on Nineveh. In some languages it is more natural to use a statement to express the emphasis: "I certainly should have compassion for Nineveh, that important city." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## in which there are more ##
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This can also be the beginning of a new sentence. "There are more" or "It has more."
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## 120 thousand people ##
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120,000 people (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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## cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ##
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This may be a way of saying "cannot discern between right and wrong."
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## cannot discern between ##
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"cannot tell which is" (UDB) or "do not know which is"
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## and also many cattle? ##
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"and there are also many cattle." |