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    4. RASHI METHOD: ALIGNMENT
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Aligning two almost identically worded verselets can suggest
    • (4a) 2 cases of the same incident or law
    • (4b) emphasis on the nuances of a case
    • (4c) use of broad vs literal usage of words
     This examples applies to Rashis Dt27-12a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n11.htm
    Brief Summary: The Levites blessed / cursed TO the people The Tribes stood ON their mountains and answered AMEN

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses or verselets in Dt27-12, Dt27-13. Both verses/verselets discuss the ceremony of blessings and curses on Mount Gerizim and Ayval The alignment justifies the Rashi comment that: It was the Levites who said the curses and blessings. (Dt27-14 explicitly states And the Levites shall responsively speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, cursed... ) The tribes did not say them but stood on their respective mountains However by answering Amen the tribes affirmed and participated in the blessings and curses. Hence the double verse language: The tribes stand on the curse and bless to the people.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Dt27-12 These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are come over the Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin It was the Levites who said the curses and blessings. (Dt27-14 explicitly states And the Levites shall responsively speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, cursed... ) The tribes did not say them but stood on their respective mountains However by answering Amen the tribes affirmed and participated in the blessings and curses. Hence the double verse language: stand on the curse and bless to the people.
Dt27-14 And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal on the curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 


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