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-# twenty-fifth ... tenth ... fourteenth
-
-These words are the ordinal forms of 25, 10, and 14. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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 # of our captivity
 
-Here "our" refers to Ezekiel and the Israelites who have been in Babylon since the Babylonians forced King Jehoiachin to leave Jerusalem, but not to the reader. Alternate translation: "after we became captives" or "after the Babylonians took us as captives to Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-exclusive]])
+"after we became captives" or "after the Babylonians took us as captives to Babylon"
 
 # the beginning of the year on the tenth day of the month
 
-This is the first month of the Hebrew calendar. The tenth day is in April on Western calendars. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-hebrewmonths]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
+This is the first month of the Hebrew calendar. The tenth day is in April on Western calendars.
 
 # the city was captured
 
-This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "the Babylonians captured the city of Jerusalem" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"the Babylonians captured the city of Jerusalem"
 
 # the hand of Yahweh
 
-Here "hand" refers to Yahweh's power to show Ezekiel supernatural visions. See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 1:3](../01/03.md).
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+This refers to Yahweh's power to show Ezekiel supernatural visions. See Ezekiel 1:3.
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