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VERSE: Gn46-31a
======================= DOUBLE VERSE SENTENCES ==================
VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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Gn46-31:32 is an example of TWO verses forming ONE sentence.
Most Biblical verses are complete sentences. However in very
rare instances TWO verses will form ONE sentence. The
translation of these verses is as follows
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- I will go to Pharoh and tell him (as follows)
- - My brothers & father from Canaan came to me
- - And they shepard for they were always shepards
- - and they brought their herds and possessions with them
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TODAYS RASHI RULE GRAMMARr
TODAYS RASHI SUBRULE THE SENTENCE
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BRIEF EXPLANATION OF TODAYS RASHI RULE
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One of Rashis 6 main goals is to explain Grammar the same
way modern Grammar books do. Grammar deals with many topics
In this posting we deal with the grammatical rules governing
sentences. Most Biblical verses are complete sentences. However
in certain rare cases TWO Verses form ONE sentence. A list of
examples is provided below
STANDARD REFERENCES FOR TODAYS RULE
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The RashiYomi Grammar page: http://www.RashiYomi.com/grammar.htm
DOUBLE VERSES SENTENCES: http://www.Rashiyomi.com/dt02-16a.htm
TODAYS LIST
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Here is the list of DOUBLE VERSE Sentences. Footnotes further
clarify how the two verses form one sentence. This list comes
from the above mentioned references.
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VERSE FN BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF MULTI VERSE SENTENCE
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Gn46-31a *0 My family came--they are shepards;
Dt02-16a *1 [It was] when they died..[then] God spoke to me
Dt11-07a *2 It is not your children who saw ..but rather you
Dt04-10a *3 Dont forget what you saw...how God revealed Himself
Nu32-36a *4 & The Gadites built Divon,Ataroth... :For grazing
Gn01-29a *5 I give vegies for food TO: YOU,ANIMALS,BIRD,INSECTS
Gn27-28a *6 Your scent is like a field:&So will God bless you
Dt11-13a *7 You will have rain..This will be when you do Mtzvt
Dt01-31a *8 ..God,redeemed you from Egypt &..took you thru Desert
Dt02-29b *9 Let me use your roads (& buy food,like Esauv sold me).
NOTES
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*0 Here is the entire text
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- I will go to Pharoh and tell him (as follows)
- - My brothers & father from Canaan came to me
- - And they shepard for they were always shepards
- - and they brought their herds and possessions with them
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*1
Dt02-15 And when the sinners died
Dt02-16 God spoke to me
For further details see footnote *10
*2 We have here 6 verses forming one sentence.
---Dt10-02 And you should know today that it was not
- your children who saw Gods rebuke, his greatness,
- his big Hand and outstretched Arm,
---Dt10-03 his miracles, and great deeds that he did
- to Egypt, and to Pharoh their king and, to his nation
-----Dt10-04 AND THAT which He did to the Egyptian Army..
-----Dt10-05 AND THAT which He did for you in the Desert
-----Dt10-06 AND THAT which He did in the Korach rebellion
-Dt10-07 RATHER it is you yourself which have seen
these things
For translation of the Hebrew KI as RATHER in Dt10-07
and for treating the repeating keyword THAT like a
foonote see footnote *11
*3
---Dt04-09 Watch yourself and watch your soul alot lest
you forget the things you (yourself saw) and lest you
forget your whole life; and you will tell them to
your children and to your grandchildren --
---Dt04-10 the day that you stood before God your Lord
in the desert when God said to me (Moses) gather
the congregation and I will tell them my words(the
decalogue/10 commandments) in order that they learn
to revere me all the days which they are alive on the
land; and they will also teach their children
*4
Nu32-34 The Gadites
----------------------built:
----------------------------------Divon
----------------------------------Ataroth
----------------------------------Aroayr
--Nu32-35-------------------------Atroth Shofan
----------------------------------Yazayr
----------------------------------Yagbehah
--Nu32-36-------------------------Bayth Nimrah
----------------------------------Bayth Haran
-----------------------[built for] fortification & grazing
For a further defense of this perspective see *12
*5
Gn01-29 And God said
--------I(God) give
----------------To you
-----------------------------------all seed bearing grass
-----------------------------------& all fruit bearing trees
----------------To you to eat
Gn01-30---------To animals
----------------To birds
----------------To living insects-
-----------------------------------all grass
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Gn01-27 AND HE SAID: SEE:
-----------------------My sons scent is like a field
Gn01-28----------------& (so) will God give you[r fields]:
----------------------------from heavenly dew &
----------------------------from rich earth:
----------------------------abundant grain and wine
Note the introductory phrase AND GOD SAID: SEE
in verse Gn01-27: This gives credibility to this
interpretation that everything is one long blessing
For further elaboration see *13
*7
Dt01-30 & I(Moses) said: God will fight for you
------- the same way He did
---------------IN Egypt, in front of your sight
Dt01-31--------& IN the Desert, which you saw
------- that God bore you like a parent does his child
The keyword IN helps link the two verses together.
*8 --Dt11-10 For the land which you are coming to is not like
Egypt where your agriculture depended on canals from the Nile
--Dt11-11 The land you are coming to is mountainous...you
obtain water from rain
--Dt11-13 It is a land that God constantly watches; Gods Eyes
are on it the whole year
--Dt11-14 and this (obtaining rain) will happen when you
listen to Gods commandments which I command you this day
to love God and to serve him with all your heart and soul
--Dt11-15 (It is only) THEN that God will give you rain in
its season
For other comments on these verses see footnote *14
*9
Dt02-26 ---And Moses requested from the Sichonites
Dt02-27 -------------Allow me to use your roads
Dt02-28 ---------------------allow me to buy food/water
Dt02-29 ---------------------the way [Edom sold me food]
---------------------until I pass your land
For further elaboration see footnote *15
-------------------- LONGER FOOTNOTES ----------------------
*10 There are two Rashis on these verses.
Dt02-16a comments on the fact that the two verses form
one sentence
Dt02-17a comments on the fact that it uses the verb
SPOKE vs CITE.
We have only dealt with Dt02-16a in this posting. The
other Rashi will be dealt with at another time.
*11 Take note of 2 items in our translation:
RASHI USES REPEATING KEYWORDS AS BULLETS
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First note how the repeating keyword THAT
functions as a BULLET facilitating
the reading of this long sentence.
For a posting showing many examples of REPEATING
KEYWORDS functioning as BULLETS see
http://www.RashiYomi.Com/18-01d.htm)
RASHI TRANSLATES THE HEBREW WORD, KI, as RATHER
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Also note that Rashi translated the Hebrew word KI in
Dt10-07 as RATHER. In fact the Hebrew word KI has
7 meanings.
For the 7 meanings of KI see the posting
http://www.RashiYomi.Com/ki-11.htm
*12
The whole chapter Nu32-16:42 revolves around a deal
that the Gadites made with Mosheh
---the Gadites would inherit the transjordan
---the Gadites would build cities for fortification/grazing
---the Gadite herds/children would remain in these cities
---the Gadites would fight for Israel with everyone else
This 4 fold contract is repeated in the following verses
* Nu32-16:19 Initial Offer by the Gadites
* Nu32-20:24 Initial Acceptance by Moses
* Nu32-25:27 Confirmation of deal by Gadites
* Nu32-28:42 Confirmation of deal in presence of Elders
So we see that our interpretation of Nu32-34:36 as referring
to creation of fortifications/grazing is consistent with
the whole chapter.
Indeed, we can go further and break up Nu32-28:42 which deals
with the finalizing of the deal as follows:
Nu32-28:30 Moses says: The Gadites promised to fight for Israel
Nu32-31:32 Gadites respond: We agree
Nu32-33 Moses gives them the land they were promised
Nu32-34:36 The Gadites build cities for their families/grazing
In conclusion this Rashi is an excellent example of the
neglected principle of OVERALL structure.
*13 We have interpreted the verses as follows
Gn01-27 AND HE SAID: SEE:
-----------------------My sons scent is like a field
Gn01-28----------------& (so) will God give you[r fields]:
----------------------------from heavenly dew &
----------------------------from rich earth &
----------------------------abundant grain and wine
Chazal see a cycle here:
--First Jews behave nicely (They smell like fresh fields)
--then God gives them fresh fields
--and then they are well to do & they smell like fresh fields
--and then God gives them fresh fields etc
Note how this observation of cyclicity is not SOMETHING
separate from the simple meaning of the text but rather
is a LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE of the simple meaning. This is
the true way to learn Midrash--the Midrash is ONE with
the simple meaning of the text.
*14 NOTE: Dt10-13 does not begin IF you will listen then...
Rather ot begins: AND THIS (The above) will happen
WHEN you listen. It is the Hebrew word VHAYAH (and
this will happen) which prompts Rashi to connect the
verses.
Thus Dt10-12, Dt10-13, Dt10-14 form
a GENERAL-PARTICULAR-GENERAL form stating that God
gives rain WHEN you observe commandments; it is THEN
that God gives rain.
For further examples of the
GENERAL PARTICULAR GENERAL Style, one of the 13 style
rules of Rabbi Ishmael see
http://www.RashiYomi.Com/exampe7.htm
*15 The Sifsay Chachamim, a commentary on Rashi makes the
following points
--It explicitly says in Nu20-14 that Moses requested
permission from Edom, THE BROTHER OF ISRAEL, to
pass thru the land.
& Edom is explicitly identified with Esauv the Brother
of Jacob in Gn36-01
Thus the Nu20 story links to the Dt02 story.
--But it explicitly says in Nu20 that
* the Jews offered to BUY food (Nu20-19)
* the Jews also requested use of roads (Nu20-19)
* Edom refused to allow ROAD USE(Nu20-20 & Nu20-21)
--If we couple this with the statement here (Dt02-29)
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LET ME PASS AND BUY FOOD LIKE EDOM DID FOR ME
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--then we conclude (based on the two sets of explicit
verses) that
* Edom did sell water & food
* Edom did not allow Road use
This uses the Rabbi Ishmael rule of resolving
contradictory verses.
We see that Rashi is also using the technique
of OTHER VERSES. The two Rashis in Dt02-26:29 are
based on the OTHER VERSES in Numbers 20 Here is how
the Dt02 verses would read. Notice the alignment
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Dt02-26 ---And Moses requested from the Sichonites
Dt02-27 -------------Allow me to use your roads
Dt02-28 ---------------------allow me to buy food/water
Dt02-29 ---------------------the way [Edom sold me food]
---------------------until I pass your land
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In conclusion Rashi(Dt02-29b) says that
* Dt02-27 and Dt02-29 are linked
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Let me use your roads till I pass thru the land
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* Rashi (Dt02-29a) similarly says
Dt02-28 and Dt02-29 are linked
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Allow me to buy food water like Edom sold me
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Rashi bases his interpretation
on the OTHER VERSES and the
RESOLUTION OF CONTRADICTIONS
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