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Deut 5:3 syntax and grammar?

From: a.c.smith AT juno.com (Andrew C Smith)
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Deut 5:3 syntax and grammar?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:05:56 EST

What is the meaning of this sentence? I read:

Not with your fathers made YHVH this covenant,
but with us,
this "we", [who are] here today,
all of us living ones.

It seems like an odd sentence to me.

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Deut 5:3 syntax and grammar?, Andrew C Smith, 01/04/1999
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- Re: Deut 5:3 syntax and grammar?, Paul Zellmer, 01/05/1999
- Re: Deut 5:3 syntax and grammar?, Bryan Rocine, 01/05/1999