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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: YIQTOL with past meaning
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:52:14 -0500


Lee Martin wrote:
<"The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the sons of Esau would
dispossess them. [deleted grammatical comment--rb] So they destroyed them
from before them, and they settled in their stead.">

That represents the MT. (The grammatical comment "yiqtol, showing intent or
desire" was irrelevant.)

From the Samaritan text and parallel texts like 2.20-21 it is probable that
a textual corruption has entered the MT.
But the MT makes sense as it stands:

The sons of Esau used to dispossess them and they completely purged them
and they lived in the land in place of them.

blessings
Randall Buth




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