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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues speaking to Ezekiel. He speaks of the people of Egypt as if they were a woman. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Are you really more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised.
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This is a question and command that the prophet is to ask the Egyptians. AT: "Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised. Ask them all: 'Are you really more beautiful than anyone else?'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# Go down
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It is implied that they must go down to Sheol. AT: "Go down to Sheol" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# lie down
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as in death. If your language has a word for dead people lying down that is different from the word for live people lying down to sleep, use it here.
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# Are you really more beautiful than anyone else?
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This question really makes a statement. AT: "You are not more beautiful than anyone else." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# They
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"Egypt and her people"
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# who were killed by the sword
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The word "sword" is a metonym for a soldier who kills people with a sword.This can be put into active form. AT: "whom enemy soldiers killed with swords" or "who died in battle" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# The sword has been drawn!
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The word "sword" here is a metonym for war that people fight with swords. This can be translated in active form. AT: "War has begun" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# She has been given to the sword
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This can be put in active form. AT: "I have given Egypt to the sword" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# they will seize her and her multitudes
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"her enemies will seize Egypt and her people"
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# about Egypt and her allies
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"about the Egyptians and those who join them" |