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838 B
Markdown
19 lines
838 B
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## the required number of days ##
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This could be translated as "the number of days that God required."
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## for their purification ##
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"for them to become ceremonially clean" or "for God to consider them to be clean again"
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## to present him to the Lord ##
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"to bring him to the Lord" or "to bring him into the Lord's presence." This was a ceremony acknowledging God's claim on the firstborn children who were male.
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## As it is written ##
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This could be translated as "They did this because Moses wrote" (See:[[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## male that opens the womb ##
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This is an idiom for "firstborn offspring that is a male." The law was about the firstborn offspring of both people and domestic animals, but in this context it could be translated as "firstborn son." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]]) |