These symbolic acts were the normal way that people showed great respect and devotion in that culture. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-symaction]])
Moses writes of hardships happening to them as if hardships had come to them. AT: "all the hardships that had happened to them" or "all the hardships they had experienced" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])