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# General Information:
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Moses resumes reminding the people of Israel about what happened in the past.
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# as at the first time
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"first" is the ordinal number for one. Here it refers to the first time Moses went up Mount Sinai to receive the stone tablets from Yahweh. "as I did the first time" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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# forty days and forty nights
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"40 days and 40 nights" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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# destroy you
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the word "you" here is singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you]])
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