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# to show your servant
Here "your servant" is a polite way of speaking to someone with greater authority. Alternate translation: "to show me, your servant"
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# your strong hand
Here the metonym "hand" means control or power. Alternate translation: "your power" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# for what god is there ... acts?
Moses uses a question to emphasize that Yahweh is the only God with the power to do the works he has done. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "for there is no god ... acts." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# in heaven or in earth
These two extremes together mean "anywhere." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]])
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