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449 B
that two-thirds of it will be cut off! Those people will perish; only one-third will remain there
People being killed is spoken of as if they are cut off like cloth is cut from a garment or a branch is cut from a plant. Alternate translation: "that two out of every three people will die! Only one person out of three will remain in the land" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-fraction)