We have explained in our article Biblical Formatting located on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf, that the Biblical Author indicated bullets by using repeating keywords.

That is, if a modern author wanted to get a point across using bullets - a list of similar but contrastive items - then the Biblical Author would use repeating keywords. Today's verse illustrates this principle.

Bullets whether indicated through modern notation or through the Biblical method of repeating keywords always indicate contrastive emphasis - that is, each bullet is presumed to be a distinct item contrasted to the other items on the list. Very often the bullets are also used to indicate that the entire list is exhaustive of some spectrum.

Verse(s) Lv21-01:03 discussing the prohibition of a Priest ritually defiling himself to the dead as well as the exceptions to this rule states And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
• There shall be none defiled for the dead among his people;
• Except
  • for his relative, who is near to him,[ his wife]
  • for his mother, and
  • for his father, and
  • for his son, and
  • for his daughter, and
  • for his brother,
  • And for his sister a virgin, who is near to him, which has had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
The repeated underlined phrase for creates a bullet effect. The bullet effect in turn creates an emphasis on the distinctness of all enumerated items. Rashi interprets the distinctness as follows The phrase his relavite who is near to him refers to his wife.

Advanced Rashi: We have embedded this Rashi comment in the above translation. It is important to emphasize that Rashi is not deriving this translation from the meaning of the Hebrew word which is translated as relative. Indeed there are many verses where this Hebrew word (Shin-Aleph-Resh, Sher) means any relative; for example Lv18-06, Lv25-49. Rather the driving force motivating Rashi to translate the word relative as meaning wife comes from the bulleted structure which requires that each bullet item be regarded as distinctive. Reviewing the list shows that wife is a logical complement to the other items and fits nicely at the beginning of the list.

What emerges from this analysis is that the formatting method is a separate and distinct exegetical tool, alongside with grammar, meaning and alignment, by which to understand textual material.