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Today we ask the database query:
Does the Bible use puns in its Biblical commandments.
The query uncovers several commandments which use puns.
They are listed in the table below.
Since puns are an example of symbolism this table
will be repeated in rule #10, Symbolism, below.
Verse
| Hebrew Root
| Meaning 1
| Meaning 2
| Text of Verse
| Pun Interpretation
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Gn06-14a
| Gimel-Pay-Resh
| Lava
| Lava Wood Lava-type rough appearance
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Make thee an ark of Lava wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
| Remind your generation that of the flood of molten Lava that will punish
them if they don't repent.
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Ex20-23a
| Ayin-Lamed-Hey
| Steps
| Fantasies thought that come up in your mind
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
| You should not have fantasies while serving on my altar in the Temple
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Ex17-11a
| Ayin-Lamed-Hey
| to raise
| to pray To raise to God ones feelings in prayer
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And it came to pass, when Moses Raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
| When Moses [and the Jews] prayed the war went their way; when they
didn't pray they were losing.
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Nu21-09a
| Nun-Cheth-Shin
| Snake
| Copper color as in copper-head, snakes are colored copper
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And Moses made a copper snake, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
| The copper color on a raised pole symbolized
praying against the attack of snakes.
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