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# the word of Yahweh by ... Jeremiah
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"what Yahweh spoke through Jeremiah" or "the word from Yahweh that Jeremiah spoke"
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# until the land should ... its Sabbath rests
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"until the land had rested according to the Sabbath law". The people were supposed to obey the Sabbath law by not farming the land every seventh year.
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# It observed its Sabbath for all ... desolation
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"The requirements of the Sabbath law were fulfilled as long as the land lay desolate"
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# so that ... seventy years in this way
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"so that 70 years might pass while the land lay desolate"
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