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# General Information:
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The writer continues to use parallelism in each of these verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize security with regard to the natural world, the homestead, and one's descendants. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# you will have a covenant with the stones in your field
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Here the stones in farmers' fields are spoken of as if they were people that someone could have a covenant with. AT: "the stones in your fields will be like people who promise that they will not make any trouble for you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the beasts of the field
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This refers to dangerous wild animals. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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