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# Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes
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After sheep have their wool cut off, they are washed and their skin looks very white. The woman's teeth are white. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# a flock of newly shorn ewes
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This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "a flock of ewes whose wool people have cut off" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# coming up from the washing place
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The ewes are coming up out of the water. Alternate translation: "that are coming up out of the water after people have washed them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# Each one has a twin
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Sheep usually give birth to two lambs at one time. These twin lambs usually look like one another. Each of the woman's teeth has a matching tooth on the other side of her mouth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# none among them is bereaved
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Each of the woman's teeth has a matching tooth on the other side of her mouth. She has not lost any of her teeth.
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# bereaved
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lost a loved one who has died
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