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## a cooking pot ##
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Yahweh compares Jerusalem to a cooking pot. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## rust ##
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the red material that forms on metal. Rust eats away at metal and eventually destroys it
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## Take ##
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Yahweh does not give this command to a specific person, instead he is commanding some imaginary person who is part of the metaphor.
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## but do not cast lots for it ##
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Casting lots was a way of choosing which pieces of meat to take out, but because Yahweh wants to take out all of the pieces of meat, there is no need to cast lots. |