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# For hundreds of years, priests kept on offering sacrifices to God
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This is background information about the sacrifices the priests offered to God in the past. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-time-background]])
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# But those sacrifices could not forgive their sins
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This indicates an exceptional relationship. The sacrifices could show people their sin and that it deserved punishment, but it could not forgive those sins. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-exceptions]])
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# He gave himself
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This could also be translated as: “Jesus allowed himself to be killed.”
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