# Others received the experience of mocking and whippings, and even chains and imprisonment

This can be reworded so that the abstract nouns are expressed as verbs. Alternate translation: "People afflicted others by mocking and whipping them and even putting them in chains and imprisoning them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])

# Others received the experience of mocking and whippings

The phrase "received the experience" is a metonym that means they learned about something through experience. The abstract nouns "mocking" and "whippings" can be translated using verbs. Alternate translation: "Others received the knowledge that comes from experience of mocking and whippings" or "People gave others the knowledge that comes through experience by mocking and whipping them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])