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  • Tohu vabohu

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    Most English translations lose the poetic feel of passages like this. The excellent English translation of the Torah by Emmett Fox (The Fiv ...

  • Translation suggestion; Plain sense

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    Lemma They answered Analysis The Hebrew verb is plural and the direct speech comprises a sequence of notices. Arguably, the daughters’ answe ...

  • Translation

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    I was looking at the Hebrew of this passage...so why are they translating this "They" when clearly in the Hebrew text, it is a singular pron ...

  • Remark

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    By definition, the Hebrew grammar of the Hebrew Bible is correct, although it might not be the same as modern Hebrew grammar. The problem is ...

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    It's a matter of English grammar. The hebrew singular pronoun refers to the word "zera," seed or progeny. JPS uses the word offspring, whi ...

  • Genesis 1 : 2

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    the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water— ...

  • Remark

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    This is a [potential] flaw the NJPS translation. Nowhere in the Hebrew verse is the word "kol", "all"/"every" used in regard to land animal ...

  • Remark

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    While the translation of "ish" as "one" does indeed retain the 'non-specificity and indefiniteness' of the term, it stifles the exegesis of ...

  • Remark

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    P.S. Robert Alter's version is interesting as well: "When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and ...

  • Remark

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    I really like Everett Fox's opening of Genesis a lot. I especially like "when the earth was wild and waste": it's a good attempt at retaini ...

  • Deuteronomy 5 : 5

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    I stood between the Lord and you at that time to convey the Lord‘s words to you, for you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mount ...

  • A Lightning Rod Verse

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    Rashi and other commentators go crazy trying to interpret this verse. Is this verse talking about Noah or all the people in his generation? ...

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    Interesting to point out differences between Ten Commandments here and in Exodus. Besides for a few changes in certain places with wording, ...

  • Genesis 3 : 15

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    I will put enmityBetween you and the woman,And between your offspring and hers;They shall strike at your head,And you shall strike at their ...

  • Exodus 2 : 19

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    They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds; he even drew water for us and watered the flock.” ...

  • In the Beginning G-d Created...Grammar Mistakes?

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    Sure enough, the first phrase of the Bible is grammatically incorrect, or at least it is according to most translations of the opening chapt ...

  • The meaning of Tohu and Tehom

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    Is there any relationship in meaning between tohu (unformed) and tehom (deep)? I have heard it said that the deep in Genesis signifies primo ...

  • Remark

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    While there are many interpretations to this paradox, I just wanted to point out that this verse is the source for the idea that Adam & Eve ...

  • Gender in NJPS

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    Lemma in Hebrew transliteration yasum Lemma makes him Critique of social-gender ascription The verb “makes” is transitive, for which English ...

  • Gender in NJPS; Translating ’ish

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    Lemma in Hebrew transliteration ve-khol `eved ’ish miqnat kasef Lemma but any slave a man has bought Critique of social-gender ascription Th ...

  • Genesis 1 : 24

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    God said, “Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: cattle, creeping things, and wild beasts of every kind.” And it was so. ...

  • Exodus 2 : 12

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    He turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand ...

  • Waiting for God

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    God instructs Moses to "come up to Me on the mountain and wait there," ve-he-yeh sham." The English translation is not precise here; God te ...

  • Ezra 4 : 18

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    Now the letter that you wrote me has been read to me in translation. ...

  • Cohen's blessing

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    The translation is interesting because it sounds more like a proclamation than like a blessing. ...