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23 lines
813 B
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## the twenty-fourth day ##
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"the 24th day" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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## the people of Israel were assembled ##
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"the people of Israel came together" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## they were wearing sackcloth, and they put dust on their heads ##
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This was in order to show how sorry they were for the wrong things they and their ancestors had done.
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## The descendants of Israel ##
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"the sons and daughters of Israel" or "the Israelites"
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## separated themselves apart from all the foreigners ##
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"stood apart from those who were not sons and daughters of Israel"
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## They stood and confessed their own sins and the evil actions of their ancestors ##
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"They admitted the wrong things that they had done and also the wrong things their forefathers had done" |