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# Say to your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan. Get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
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This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. AT: "Tell your brothers to load their animals and go to Canaan to get their father and families. Tell them to come here, and I will give them the best land in Egypt and the best food we have to offer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
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# I will give you the good of the land of Egypt
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"I will give you the best land in Egypt"
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# you will eat the fat of the land
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The best food that a land produces is spoken of as if it were the fat portion of the land. AT: "you will eat the best food in the land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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