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VERSE: Nu01-04a
RASHIS COVERED: Nu01-04a Nu01-17a Nu01-17b*11
================= Nu01-04a ===================
VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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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. An examples is
provided below. As a special treat we see the
famous STRUCTURE methods of Casuto one of the
early defenders against the Bible critics
EXAMPLE: Nu01-03:05 Nu01-15:17
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God orders Moses to Count, with the Tribe
heads, the Jews above 20.
Thus we have a verse for each part of Grammar
-- VERB: COUNT the Jews (Verse 2)
-- OBJECT(Who do you count) Jews above 20 (v3)
-- ADVERB(How do you count)With Tribe heads-v4
This sequence VERB-OBJECT-ADVERB
is repeated in a charming reverse order
in both Nu01-03:05 and Nu01-15:17
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ITEM DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS: GRAMMAR
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS MULTI-VERSE SENTENCES
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #9
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SEE BELOW LIST070c
List of clauses in Nu01-03:05 Nu01-15:17
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RASHI SUBRULE CLASS WORD MEANING
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #7
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SEE BELOW LIST811a
List of verses where N-K-V means to FIX
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================== LIST070c ==================
We study the multi-verse sentences Nu01-02:04
and Nu01-15:17. These multi-verse sentences
state that
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Moses should count, with the tribe heads,
the Jews above 20
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The sentence has 3 parts
- VERB: To Count
- OBJECT: Jews above 20
- ADVERB: Count with tribe heads
Each part takes up one verse.
Nu01-02:04 is a COMMAND to count while
Nu01-15:17 is a STATEMENT that they fulfilled
the order and counted*10
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Nu01-02:04 Nu01-15:17 GRAMMAR Text
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Nu01-02 Nu01-17 VERB Count
Nu01-03 Nu01-16 OBJECT Jews over 20
Nu01-04 Nu01-15 HOW*1 With Tribe heads
NOTES
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*1 i.e. ADVERB, actually an ADVERBIAL phrase
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*10 Note the Charming reverse order of
Nu01-02:04 vs Nu01-15:17. That is the order
in Nu01-02:04 is VERB-OBJECT-HOW while the
order in Nu01-15:17 is HOW-OBJECT-VERB
(reversed).
These type of STRUCTURE INSIGHTS
were frequently made by the scholar
Casuto who was an early defender against
the Bible critics.
Nu01-02:04 is the ORDER to count
Nu01-15:17 is the STATEMENT that they counted
(that is that they fulfilled the order)
*11 Our point here is that all the Rashis
are simply pointing to the multiverse
structure More specifically
- In Nu01-04a Rashi explicitly connects
the tribal leaders mentioned in Nu01-04
with the act of counting mentioned in Nu01-02
(That is Rashi illumines the
multi verse structure)
- In Nu01-17a Rashi similarly connects
the tribal heads with the act of counting
- Rashi in Nu01-17b also connects the
tribal heads with the act of counting
Rashi further illumines the meaning
of the root N-K-B (Which is explained
in list811a)
Thus we have not mentioned particular
Rashis but rather focused on the common
theme of a multi-verse sentence. We
believe this the most fruitful approach
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================== LIST811a =====================
We list 4-5 verses where the Biblical root
Nun-Kuf-Beth means TO FIX. This helps
illumine the meaning of Nu01-17 which states
that Moses took the tribal leads WHO WERE
FIXED BY NAME.
All entries are courtesy of RADACK the book
of ROOTS
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VERSE TEXT of VERSE with N-K-B=FIXED
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Gn30-28 FIX your wages and I will pay them
Isa62-02 You-ll get a new name FIXED by God
Nu01-17 The distinguished people FIXED by named
Amos06-01 The FIXED -- the Best of the Nations
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*1 Radack lists Lv24-11 however despite the
grammatical support for Radack we would
be inclined to translate this as CURSED
similar to the sister verse Lv24-16.
Thus Lv24-11 means HE CURSED THE NAME OF
GOD and CURSED See footnote *10 for
an interpretation consistent with the
Radack
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*10 Using the Radacks interpretation we would
translate Lv24-11 as
-- AND HE FIXED THE NAME OF GOD and CURSED
I would interpret this to mean that eg
he mentioned the NAME OF GOD (FIXED it
as a reference in the conversation) and
then started cursing IT, the IT referring
to the FIXED TOPIC, Gods name).
I quickly point out that this would lead
to novelty---it would state that a person
is liable to a death penalty from
blasphemy even if he didnt other the
curse word and Gods name in one breath--
it is sufficient that the NAME OF GOD
is FIXED in the conversation and in one
breath he curses IT (However this is a
very novel interpretation and requires
further investigation)
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