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- Yahweh rebukes the priests using a rhetorical conversation in which the priests protest that they are doing right and Yahweh tells them how they are doing wrong.
- despise my name - "treat me as though you hate me" (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_metonymy)
- But you say, 'How have we despised your name?' - "you priests say, 'How have we treated you as though we hate you?'" Alternate translation: "You have despised me but you say you have not!" (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion)
- polluted bread - food that was unacceptable for sacrifice
- And you say, 'How have we polluted you?' - Alternate translation: "You think you have been acceptable to me but you have not!"
- table - altar (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_euphemism)