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Rebekah continues to speak to her younger son Jacob.
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## obey my voice as I command you ##
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Rebekah said "my voice" to refer to what she was saying. This could be translated as "obey me and do what I tell you." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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## I will make delicious food from them for your father, just like he loves ##
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See how a similar sentence was translated in [Genesis 27:3](./03.md).
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## You will take it to your father ##
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"Then you will bring it to your father." This can also be translated as a command: "Then take it to your father."
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## so that he may eat it, so that he may bless you ##
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"and after he eats it, he will bless you"
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## before his death ##
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"before he dies" |