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# It is this promise that our twelve tribes hope to receive
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The phrase "our twelve tribes" stands for the people in those tribes. Alternate translation: "this is what our fellow Jews in the twelve tribes sought to receive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# the promise that our twelve tribes hope to receive
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This speaks about a promise being fulfilled as if it were an object that can be received. Alternate translation: "the promise that our twelve tribes wait for God to fulfill" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# worship God earnestly night and day
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The extremes "night" and "day" are used together to mean consistently mean Alternate translation: "continually worship God earnestly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])
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# that the Jews
This does not mean all the Jews. Alternate translation: "that the leaders of the Jews" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])