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This one is tough, but Lamed prepositions have a wide range of usage.   The 
best usage that I could come up with in regards to Ex 23:21 is called 
"specification".  Sometimes the Lamed calls attention to the object of the 
preposition.  For example in Gen 17:20 the lamed in WL:YI$:M`"'L W:MA`:TIYKA 
the lamed here is translated as "with regards to Ishmael I hear you."

That is similar to this verse.  KIY LO' YI&A' L:P$:`ACEM

"And he will not lift with regards to your transgressions...."

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Kelton Graham 
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> Specifically looking at Joshua 24:19 and Exodus 23:21. 
> 
> Please could someone tell me the point in prefixing the Lamed to the nouns 
> in these instances? Reading elsewhere I see rthat it is also not really 
> necessary. What is the difference please? 
> 
> thankyou. Chris Watts. 
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Chris,

As I noted, I do not like making the arugment from 
authority, it is kind of *cop-out*.  However I merely 
offered it as a seondary support to my main arugment.

All that being said, I would say that these sources are not 
merely authoritative because every says they are, all 
though that is not a bad thing, in and of it self.  I would 
say that they authoritative because they were translated by 
teams of professional translators who have college degrees 
in relavent fields of study from accredited universities.  
The translators have spent the majority of the adult life 
studying Hebrew and how to translate it into English.

In the contex of 1 Sam 15 and 2 Sam 21, punish seems not 
inappropriate.

Jack Tladatsi