27 lines
901 B
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27 lines
901 B
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## Why, then, do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings that I required in the place where I live? ##
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AT: "You scorn my sacrifices ...!" This question is a rebuke. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## the place where I live ##
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AT: "the place where my people bring offerings to me"
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## making yourselves fat with the best of every offering ##
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The best part of the offering was to be burned up as an offering to Yahweh, but the priests were eating it.
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## the house of your ancestor ##
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See the note in [1 Samuel 2:27](./27.md) and how you translated it there.
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## walk before me ##
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This does not mean people physically walking in front of Yahweh, but that they would have a close relationship with him under his care. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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## Far be it from me to do this ##
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AT: "I will certainly not do this!"
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## lightly esteemed ##
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AT: "dishonored" |