Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 04:00 PM 5/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Jim!
>
>    It's  <taw-qoph-resh-beth> tiqereb" instead of tegaleh
><taw-gimel-lamed-heh>, though tegaleh does appear in 5:10.  Hope this helps
>and apologies for the unconventional transliterations.

qrb merely means "draw near".  its a bit eisegetical, it seems to me, to say
this is incest.  in fact "drawing near" could be a little less evil.  it can
imply proximity for any number of things.  like "drawing near" to God- which
is hardly incest!

CD seems to me to be listing regulations for participants of the community-
one of them-- leave the family behind.  

Best,

Jim
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