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# General Information:
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Chapter 3 focuses on the corrupt leaders in Israel.
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# I said
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Here "I" refers to Micah.
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# Is it not right for you to understand justice?
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Micah is scolding the leaders. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. AT: "You act as though you think it is wrong for you to understand justice." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# you who tear off their skin, their flesh from their bones ... just like meat in a cauldron
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A butcher cutting up animals into meat is a metaphor for the leaders being cruel to the poor. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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