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# General Information:
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The word "they" refers to the disobedient Israelites, and "we" refers to the author and readers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-inclusive]])
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# Who was it who heard God and rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?
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The author uses questions to teach his readers. These two questions can be joined as one statement, if needed. AT: "All those who came out of Egypt with Moses heard God, yet they still rebelled." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# With whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
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The author uses questions to teach his readers. These two questions can be joined as one statement, if needed. AT: "For forty years, God was angry with those who sinned, and he let them die in the wilderness." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# forty years
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"40 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# To whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed him?
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The author uses this question to teach his readers. AT: "And it was to those who disobeyed that he swore they would not enter his rest." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# they would not enter his rest
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The peace and security provided by God are spoken of as if they were rest that he can give, and as if they were a place to which people could go. AT: "they would not enter the place of rest" or "they would not experience his blessings of rest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# because of unbelief
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The abstract noun "unbelief" can be translated with a verbal phrase. AT: "because they did not believe him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]]) |