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  • From: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die
  • Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:50:49 -0500


<Kol>
>>The Rabbis make an interesting remark on the phrase 'wih:yiytem
k"(lohiym',
saying that this was exactly what the snake promised them: to be creators of
worlds. See Gen. Rabbah 19:4, cited in Rashi, Gen. 3:5.

<Bill>
Yet the ssssssnake wassssss dessssssssssscccieving. They didn't become like
Elohim, just burdened with a conscience, frustrated at gardening and the
like. :->

Bill Ross





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