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# When I cut off your staff of food
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The word "staff" here refers to the staff a weak person leans on as he walks and is a metaphor for something that people rely on for life. Breaking this staff is a metaphor for destroying the food supply, either by destroying the crops in the fields or stopping the people from trading. Alternate translation: "When I stop you from being able to get food" or "When I make it impossible for you to get the food you depend on" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven
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This implies that there will be so little flour that one small oven will be able to hold all the bread that many women can put into it.
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# they will distribute your bread by weight
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This means there will be so little food that they will have to measure how much each person gets.
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