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 # I have set the land before you
 
-"I am now giving this land to you"
+"I am now giving this land to you". While the Promised Land belongs to Israel, they do not possess the land. Possessing the land is an important theme. Possessing the land depended on Israel's faithfulness. 
 
 # that Yahweh swore
 
-Yahweh is speaking as if he were another person. Alternate translation: "that I, Yahweh, swore" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-pronouns]])
+"that I, Yahweh, swore" 
 
 # fathers
 
-The word "fathers" is a synecdoche for all ancestors. Alternate translation: "ancestors" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
+"ancestors"