diff --git a/jol/03/19.md b/jol/03/19.md index d95826f4e2..b207baa9c0 100644 --- a/jol/03/19.md +++ b/jol/03/19.md @@ -6,11 +6,5 @@ "Everyone will leave Edom and it will look like no people have ever lived there" -# because of the violence done to the people of Judah - -"because of the violent things Egypt and Edom did to the people of Judah" - -# because they shed innocent blood in their land - -The word "they" refers to "Edom" and "Egypt" and is a metonym for the people of Egypt and Edom. The words "innocent blood" are a metonym for innocent people whom they have killed. Alternate translation: "because the people of Egypt and the people of Edom killed innocent people in the land of the people of Judah" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) +"because the people of Egypt and the people of Edom killed innocent people in the land of the people of Judah"