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  • From: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die
  • Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:02:37 -0500


<Bill>
The literal of Gen 2:17 seems to be:

...dying thou shalt die...

which is generally translated "thou shalt surely die"

* is this a fairly certain translation? could it be taken unidiomatically?

* does the construct appear elsewhere in Scripture?

* does anyone respectable champion another reading?

Thanks for any help,

Bill Ross




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