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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Nu32-03a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n3.htm
      Brief Summary: Brief Summary: Ataroth, Divon ... : The cities which God [just conquered] for the Jews are pasture country and are professions involve pasture.

The multi-verse rule simply states that some Biblical sentences span multiple verses. Knowledge of the multi-verse rule enables one to see distinct Biblical sentences as contributing meaning to each other. Today's example illustrates this.

Verses Nu32-02:05 form a multi-verse sentence as shown below (Verse Nu32-01 is added as an introductory sentence).

  • And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle.
    1. The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying:
    2. "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon:
    3. [That is] The country which the Lord [just] struck before the congregation of Israel [i.e. the conquest of Sichon and Og,Nu21-01:04], is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle;
    4. Therefore, said they, if we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and bring us not over the Jordan."
    The Rashi comments have been interpolated into the body of the text in typeset font. The Multi-verse nature of the single sentence is succinctly indicated by the colons, quotation marks, and semicolon which punctuate the numbered bullets. Notice especially that the listing of the long list of nouns prior to stating the sentence is a technique known as apposition, a technique found in many languages. 


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