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# The king carried away to Babylon
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Here "the king" refers to his soldiers whom he ordered to do the work. The phrase "carried away" is an idiom that means to forcefully bring them to Babylon. AT: "The king had his army forcefully take to Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# until the rule of the kingdom of Persia
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"until the kingdom of Persia came to power"
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# the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah
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Here the noun "word" can be translated with the verb "spoke." The word "mouth" represents Jeremiah. AT: "what Yahweh spoke through Jeremiah" or "the word from Yahweh that Jeremiah spoke" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# until the land should have enjoyed its Sabbath rests
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The people were supposed to obey the Sabbath law by not farming the land every seventh year. This phrase speaks about this as if the land were a person that would obey the Sabbath law and rest. AT: "until the land had rested according to the Sabbath law" or "until, as required by the Sabbath law, no one had farmed the land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# It observed its Sabbath for as long as it lay abandoned
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The word "it" refers to the land. The land is spoken of as if it were a person who observed the Sabbath. AT: "The requirements of the Sabbath law were fulfilled as long as the land lay abandoned" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# in order to pass seventy years in this way
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"so that 70 years passed while the land lay abandoned" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/king]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/kingdom]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/persia]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/fulfill]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/wordofgod]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jeremiah]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sabbath]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rest]] |