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# May he have dominion
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"May the king have dominion"
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# from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth
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Both of these expressions are merisms and refer to the whole earth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]])
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# from sea to sea
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from the Dead Sea and the Sea of Kinnereth in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
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# the River
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"the Euphrates River," which the Israelites would travel to on land by going north
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# the ends of the earth
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as far as people could travel on land by different routes to the south. The Israelites spoke of the earth as if it were a flat surface with ends. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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