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VERSE: Gn13-10b

============ RASHI FILLS-IN SENTENCE FLOW =======================

BACKGROUND
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Not every Rashi is explaining a new grammatical rule or an
unknown word or even answering some piercing anomaly. Some
Rashis simply facilitate or smooth out sentence flow.

THE TEXT
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Gn13-10 Lot saw the Jordan valley that it was well irrigated
        BEFORE GOD DESTROYED SEDOM [that it was] Like the
        Garden of Eden Like Egypt

THE RASHI
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Rashi is Simple. The CAPPED phrase BEFORE GOD DESTROYED SEDOM
is in the wrong place in the sentence. The sentence would
read much better if it read as follows:
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Lot saw the Jordan valley, BEFORE GOD DESTROYED SEDOM, that
-- it was irrigated
-- it was like the Garden of Eden
-- it was like Egypt
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Technically we may call this a case of a DANGLING MODIFIER

THE LIST
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The verse is analyzed syntactically below. The grammatical
function and purpose of each word in the verse is indicated.
As can be seen the phrase BEFORE SEDOMS DESTRUCTION is an
adjectival phrase telling us WHEN an activity happened.
Hence it belongs at the beginning of the sentence.
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GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION ANSWERS WHAT TEXT OF VERSE
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Subject              WHO:         Lot
Verb                 DID WHAT:    Saw
Object TO            WHAT:        the Jorday Valley,
Adjectival phrase    WHEN*1       Before Sedoms destruction
CONNECIVE*2          Connects     THAT
Adjectival Clause1   Looks like?   It was well watered
Adjectival Clause2   Looks Like?   Like the Garden of Eden
Adjectival Clause3   Looks like?   Like Egypt

NOTES
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*1 Again Rashis point is that this phrase which indicates
   when Lot looked over the Plain, reads more naturally
   when placed before all 3 adjectival phrases (Rather than
   in the middle of them).

*2 More technically the word THAT is an ABSTRACT PREPOSITION
   that introduces a SUBORDINATE CLAUSE. Alot of fancy
   language that simply means that the word THAT connects
   the first part of the sentence (That Lot looked over
   the Jordan valley) with the 3 attributes of this valley
   that follow it in the latter part of the sentence.
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