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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-Yahweh continues telling Ezekiel what he is to say to Gog.
-
 # Are you not the one ... bring you against them?
 
-Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he was the one who brought Gog to the land of Israel. Alternate translation: "You are the one ... bring you against them." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
+"You are the one ... bring you against them". Yahweh emphasizes that he brought Gog to the land of Israel.
 
 # of whom I spoke
 
@@ -16,9 +12,8 @@ Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he was the one who brought Gog to th
 
 # by the hand of my servants
 
-Here "hand" refers to the fact that these prophets wrote down Yahweh's message. Alternate translation: "by means of my servants" or "through my servants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
+"by means of my servants" or "through my servants"
 
 # against them
 
-"against the people of Israel"
-
+"against the people of Israel"
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