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# They will not look to the altars
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Looking to the altars represents worshiping idols with the hope that the idols will help them. Alternate translation: "They will not worship idols at their altars" or "The people of Israel will not go to their altars and ask their idols to help them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# the work of their hands
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Here the people are represented by their "hands" to emphasize that they made the altars or idols. Alternate translation: "that they made with their hands" or "which they themselves built" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# what their fingers have made ... the Asherah poles or the sun images
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The second phrase identifies the things that the people made. Speaking of the fingers here emphasizes that the people made them, so these things are not real gods. Alternate translation: "the Asherah poles or the sun images, which they themselves made" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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